Model of Sustainable Tourism Based on Rural Development

Abstract

Today’s tourists realize that the most important thing is freeing from the stress and that it is impossible to achieve on the places where the everyday experiences are repeating. This shows completely other type tourists and tourism which will surely change the theory and the behavior in that sector in the future. Future guests will be more interested for natural beauties and for cultural monument of tourism destinations. Stimulated by a need for excursions, for the changes of the place of living and of a desire for new knowledge and different excitements, the guests will require more from the tourism. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the rural tourism as an important asset in the model of tourism economy for sustainable development. Through rural tourism we can vitalized all rural area that are “forgotten” by government, people, investors, tourists, ect. Rural areas have concentrated most of natural resources and offer several types of tourism.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p468