Open AccessDevelopment of European urban tourist systems
Author(s) -
Senta Jerković
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
glasnik srpskog geografskog društva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-078X
pISSN - 0350-3593
DOI - 10.2298/gsgd0901021j
Subject(s) - tourism , metropolitan area , regional science , economic geography , tourism geography , urban tourism , geography , economy , period (music) , urban planning , cultural heritage , polycentricity , perspective (graphical) , economic growth , business , civil engineering , economics , corporate governance , physics , archaeology , acoustics , engineering , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science
Relationship between urban development and tourism is a significant process in Europe today. Development of tourism has caused many organizational changes in urban environment. In the middle of the 20th century cultural and historical heritage in the cities was impetus of development of tourism in European cities. Nowadays, in many European cities tourism is recognized as a mean of further economic development. Strategy of polycentricity, outlined in European spatial development perspective is supporting that process, too. Many tourist centres and metropolitan tourist areas have been developed. In the period from 1996. to 2007. number of visitors in European cultural capitals was growing continuously by rate of 25,6%. In the same period, the number of international tourist arrivals increased by rate of only 7%