CLIMATIC FEATURES AS A FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Mijalce Gjorgievski () and Dejan Nakovski
Additional contact information
Mijalce Gjorgievski: University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Macedonia.
Dejan Nakovski: University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Macedonia.

UTMS Journal of Economics, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 67-77

Abstract: The development of tourism in general besides the anthropogenic factors have important natural features expressed through all their features, and one of them is the climate. When we talk about tourism in rural areas as an alternative form of tourism, we have to look at the climate characteristics from a different perspective, because alternative forms of tourism have a seasonal nature, and i.e. it is a specific form of tourism that is practiced throughout the year. Therefore it is not good to have extreme temperatures and climate both in the positive and the negative terms in the area in which tourism is going to be practiced. Temperature extremes might be suitable for primary or so-called mass forms of tourism such as summer оr winter tourism, which largely depends on the number of sunny hours, air temperature, amount of snowfall, number of days with snow etc. But this is not the case when it comes to rural tourism, because it’s practiced throughout the whole year and it’s not dependent on the parameters that were given above, but this form of tourism requires an inviting climate all year round. It is therefore important to understand the basic climatic characteristics where the natural environment is an important factor for the development of tourism in the rural areas in the country.

Keywords: climate; rural tourism; temperature; seasons; altitude zones (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://utmsjoe.mk/files/Vol.%205%20No.%201/1-6-Gjorgievski-Nakovski_-_MAC.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:utmsje:0100

Access Statistics for this article

UTMS Journal of Economics is currently edited by Prof. Ace Milenkovski, PhD

More articles in UTMS Journal of Economics from University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Assistant Professor. Dejan Nakovski, PhD ().