Tourism as an approach to sustainable rural development in post-socialist countries: A comparative study of Serbia and Slovenia

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Petrović, Marko D ^a,b   Vujko, Aleksandra ^c   Gajić, Tamara ^c   Vuković, Darko B ^a,d   Radovanović, Milan ^a,b   Jovanović, Jasmina M ^e   Vuković, Natalia ^f  

^a Geographical Institute 'Jovan Cviji ' SASA   (Serbia)

^b SOUTH URAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Faculty of Agriculture of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^e University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

^f URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Countryside's development; Rural economy; Sustainable tourism; Transitional societies

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; FUTURE PROSPECT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESEARCH WORK; RESIDENT POPULATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

SERBIA; SLOVENIA;

EID: 85039776102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10010054     Document Type: Article

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