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Sustainable tourism concerns

particularly important aspects such as

competitive and socially responsible tourism

businesses, the opportunity to participate in

tourism for all citizens, good employment

opportunities in the sector and benefit from

tourism activities for the local community.

This requires the preservation of cultural

integrity and the integration of environmental

protection and cultural heritage resources in

programs related to tourism. Extensive

attempts to implement the principles of

sustainable tourism development are made

both at the regional level and at the level of

tourism enterprises.

A specific kind of sustainable tourism is ―eco-

tourism‖ defined by The International

Ecotourism Society as the responsible travel to

natural areas that preserve the environment

and sustain the local people welfare. It

includes at the same time elements of rural and

cultural tourism. Besides subscribing to the

principles of sustainable tourism, ecotourism

has specific principles: it contributes actively

to the conservation of natural and cultural

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