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Legal Regulation on Nautical Tourism as a Feature of Cultural Tourism

Conceptualising tourism as a social phenomenon, that is, as a group of relations and occurrences, means to define its multifunctionality. Within this framework nautical tourism may be regarded as a multifunctional tourist phenomenon manifested through physical consumption of natural and social resources. Although nautical tourism with its ports of nautical tourism, charter and cruising has been recognized as a generator of economic development of a particular area, quite often it gives rise to negative repercussions of social benefits. Therefore, it is necessary to turn to the legal regulation, which specifies the aforementioned field, for the purpose of profit maximisation. The purpose of this paper is to explain more closely the mere notion of nautical tourism and its manifestations and benefits reflected in the economic, socio-cultural and legal frameworks. The article focuses on the achievement of benefits through the multiplicative tourism effects accompanied by the qualitative detachment from standard elements of tourism offer characteristic for nautical tourism through the inclusion of new contents, demanding boaters’ active participation and associated with cultural and historical heritage.

tourism; nautical tourism; heritage; cultural tourism

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