Urban Tourism Destinations in the World

Urošević Marija (), Stanojević Marina () and Đorđević Dejan ()
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Urošević Marija: PhD student, University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Republic of Serbia
Stanojević Marina: University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Republic of Serbia
Đorđević Dejan: University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Republic of Serbia

Economic Themes, 2023, vol. 61, issue 3, 343-364

Abstract: In recent decades, cities have faced numerous problems related to the accelerated process of urbanization, which leads to ecological, spatial and social consequences. At the same time, globalization destroyed productive activities and created structural problems related to unemployment. For these reasons, cities are trying to attract new and growing industries that will provide jobs and enable the physical and economic regeneration of cities. One of the activities that increases employment and enables the urban regeneration of certain city zones is tourism. Urban tourism at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, with the process of globalization and the use of shorter vacations by tourists, experienced an expansion in the number of visitors, as well as the number of urban destinations. Urban destinations, as powerful financial, traffic, political, trade, etc. centers, in addition to cultural, architectural, construction, artistic, historical and environmental heritage, provide diversity and quality of tourist offer, completed by organizing congresses, professional gatherings, sports fairs, etc. Large world agglomerations, as the most important destinations of urban tourism, are visited annually by several million tourists.

Keywords: city; urban regeneration; urban tourism; urban resources; destination; tourist traffic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F63 R11 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/ethemes-2023-0018

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