TOURISM AND RECREATIONAL RESOURCES USAGE PERSPECTIVES THROUGH ACCORDING TO MOUNTAINOUS ADJARIA`S EXAMPLE

Merab Putkaradze (), Tomasz Michalski () and George Abuselidze ()
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Merab Putkaradze: Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
Tomasz Michalski: University of Gdansk
George Abuselidze: Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University

Economics and Management, 2022, vol. 19, issue 2, 27-39

Abstract: Application of resources existing in mountainous regions and its involvement in business turnover is one of the urgent issues of modern reality. The problem was more shaped since the world faced the serious challenges during of COVID-19 pandemic period. One of the densely populated mountainous regions of Adjaria in Georgia is no exception, which had a quite intense development in tourism business before the pandemic. The tourism development dynamics in mountainous Adjaria before the pandemic and after the pandemic is studied and there are shaped a serious problems existing in tourism development as a result of pandemic. The study used social and case studies, balanced theory, statistical, comparative, space-time analysis methods and other methods. The region`s tourism and recreational resources potential is evaluated, some particular type of originalities of tourism developed on its basis and there are set its further development perspectives through post-pandemic period. By foreseeing the environmental sustainability, it is grounded an increase of some particular type of tourism and new touristic routes` development ways. Therefore, the regional economic development trends are set on the basis of tourism development.

Keywords: Resource; Potential; Recreation; Resort; Tourist; Economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 O18 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.37708/em.swu.v19i2.4

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