Factors of the rural tourism development of Sirinicka Zupa in Kosovo and Metohija

Abstract

The authors analyse a current problem from the economic point of view on the rural development of Sirinicka Zupa and the significance of financing rural tourism. Starting hypothesis of authors is that the rural tourism directs a total agro complex towards the sustainable development of this Serbian enclave. The term "agro tourism" refers to an unbreakable interdependence between agriculture and tourism, and therefore is inevitable to solve in parallel the issues of agricultural holdings funding in the Serbian enclave Sirinicka Zupa in Kosovo and Metohija. The quality observation method, the analysis method, the synthesis method and interviews helped the authors in getting the information on business problems of agricultural holdings, and the authors were trying to give the answers, suggestions and solutions in order to help Serbian people in enclaves to engage in and develop tourism, and therefore also to survive and live on the centuries-old hearths.

The Development Path and Data Mining Mode of Rural Tourism under the Background of Big Data

“…This not only enriches the leisure life of rural residents but also guides villagers to actively study, unite, and live in harmony. It makes the villagers pay attention to the construction of rural civilization not only in work but also in daily life [26,27]. Villages should be developed according to local conditions to form their own unique rural style, excavating traditional farming culture, human settlement culture, landscape culture, attaching importance to the inheritance of culture, using all cultural positions to develop various ecological civilizations, and forming a new trend of rural civilization.…”

Rural tourism in development function of rural areas in Serbia

“…It is also high in Belgrade (12.2%) and Vojvodina (11.5%), the lowest in eastern Serbia and the depth of poverty is highest in south-eastern Serbia (5.0%) (Table 3). Rural regions in Serbia differ significantly in social, economic and demographic characteristics.The main problems and trends in which almost all rural regions are involved are migration, poor diversification of economic activities, large-scale agriculture, high unemployment, lack of employment opportunities, poor and underdeveloped infrastructure, low GDP per capita compared to urban regions and the unpolluted environment facing potential threats.In one study, which analyzed the potential for rural tourism development in Sirić Parish, Kosovo and Metohija, the authors argue that rural tourism would diversify the rural economy, provide additional income to the rural population, reduce unemployment, and reduce disparities in the economic development of rural and urban areas.Tourism is an opportunity for farms that mainly sell primary (unprocessed) agricultural products to sell the food products as tourist products on their properties (Ciutacu, 2009).The conclusion is that the directions that should be taken are: to finance the development of rural tourism and include: infrastructure, staff, tourism activities and it is necessary to apply appropriate standardization and categorization of services, especially adequate conditions for accommodation, promotions and sales channels of agro-tourism products in the Republic Serbia, countries in the region and thus support the Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija; migration would be halted by creating the elemental conditions for the general, much higher standard of the rural population of Sirinić Parish (Maksimović et al, 2019).…”

Covid-19 pandemic and global tourism

“…The enormous tourism development in past decades "can also be attributed to the emergence of the middle class in large and developing economies, such as China, Brazil and India" (RTE, 2020 as cited in Folinas & Metaxas, 2020, p. 2). The * dstojkovic@kg.ac.rs movement of people and tourism revenue has had a significant impact on the development of economies around the world (Grubor et al, 2019;Maksimović et al, 2019). Moreover, tourism is often the most important industry in regions that manufacture considers unattractive for investments (Počuča & Matijašević-Obradović, 2020).…”