Abstract
Rural territories may benefit from the entrepreneurial dynamics created by small tourism businesses, especially if associated to lifestyle motivations of respective entrepreneurs. Despite distrust amongst some researchers regarding small tourism businesses' contribution to rural economies, their potential role for enhancing rural development, should not be neglected. Rural tourism has grown in many rural regions worldwide and today it is a stable driver of rural social and economic development. In this paper we argue that rural tourism growth should follow a divergent path from sea tourism development, because failing to do so would likely push rural tourism toward mass tourism, resulting in a harmful twofold effect: given that mass tourism requires built-up expansion to accommodate larger number of tourists, in rural areas this will certainly compromise the beauty of the landscape which is a fundamental local resource for rural tourism; built-up growth required to satisfy seaside mass tourism expectations is often characterized as holiday resorts, artificial villages, and residential high-density condos, with a consequent loss of cultural-traditional identity, which is also a key element for rural landscapes’ attractiveness.
Highlights
Modern tourism is a combination of various types of activities aimed at creating goods and providing services to travelers in order to generate income due to the use of various objects of a natural, historical, cultural and other nature as unique places of display and recreation that differ in the natural and cultural characteristics of a country or region
The subject of legal regulation is understood as a qualitatively homogeneous type of public relations which is affected by the norms of a particular branch of law
The subject of legal regulation along with the method of regulation, acts as a criterion for the division of legal norms by industry due to its objective nature, which follows from the very existence of specific relations between people in society about something
Summary
Modern tourism is a combination of various types of activities aimed at creating goods and providing services to travelers in order to generate income due to the use of various objects of a natural, historical, cultural and other nature as unique places of display and recreation that differ in the natural and cultural characteristics of a country or region. Tourism as a whole is not sufficiently studied as an object of state-legal influence and a subject of legal regulation, which has its own unique specifics. In the latter capacity, tourism is "politically significant government decisions" that actualizes the study of the phenomenon of tourism from the perspective of legal-political science and application of its generalizations in the further development of scientific knowledge in the tourism and travel industry practice Tourism is "politically significant government decisions" that actualizes the study of the phenomenon of tourism from the perspective of legal-political science and application of its generalizations in the further development of scientific knowledge in the tourism and travel industry practice.
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