Abstract
Over the past few years, there has been intensified research about active tourism development in the area of Fruška Gora National Park and its impact on economic and business development, namely, potential development of certain economic categories within the given area and the gravitating area of the national park. Based on this, the main hypothesis has been formulated. It explains that more intensive development of tourism trends (for which favourable preconditions exist) in Fruška Gora National Park have positive impact on the overall economic development of the gravitation zone, which includes the area of the city of Novi Sad (Serbia). The primary goal of this study was to investigate the attitudes of respondents about Fruška Gora National Park as a tourism resource suitable for development of active tourism, and to show existing and potential impacts of the economic categories. The survey was conducted in prominent cycling, hiking and equestrian clubs in the city of Novi Sad, and on a random sample of the residents of Novi Sad (the sample of 303 respondents). The data were processed with the SPSS program (version 17.0). To determine the frequency of specific deviations chi square test was used.
Highlights
In the comprehensive economic development tourism is recognized as an important economic activity, an important export product and engine for growth of overall economic development
The study started from the main hypothesis H: intensive development of tourism trends in Fruška Gora National Park positively affect the overall economic development of the dispersion zone, which includes the area of Novi Sad
The results showed that all the respondents answered that the national park is a suitable area for development of sports and recreational tourism (Table 2)
Summary
In the comprehensive economic development tourism is recognized as an important economic activity, an important export product and engine for growth of overall economic development. Its important propulsive and integrative character and role of multiplier, inductor and accelerator of global economic trends have been reduced to a minimum in Vojvodina, which seems to be a huge misconception, sincetourism in this area can make a major contribution to overall economic development. The previous development of tourism in the region was affected by overall socio-economic development in Serbia. It has been found that there are preconditions to turn this area into a large-scale tourism development, and achieve visible economic effects. Advantageous geographical position with morphological, hydrological, climatological, biogeographical and anthropogeographical values are important for the development of tourism. The number of tourists and their overnight stays, foreign tourist especially, and achieved economic and social effects of tourism, sug-
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