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Training the local community for Sustainable Tourism Development

The fact that tourism is one of the key factors of growth and development, not only of some tourist destinations and countries, but also of the global economy, is irrefutable. Some local communities draw great benefits from tourism and that is why they have to be involved and made qualified to make important decisions on further tourism development. Apart from the conceptual determination of training in the context of tourism development, in this paper the importance and role of urban development and spatial planning in tourist destination development is also shown. This aspect influences the increase in the number of inhabitants and the quality of life of the local population and tourists, as a tourist destination, due to its erratic infrastructure, excessive apartment construction and commercialisation loses its attractiveness and originality. Types of training of local communities for tourism development are also shown, where, in the local community, the key role in prevention of the negative consequences of socially uncontrolled sustainable development, as well as the increase in tourism positive impacts, has the local self-government as the public sector representative. Local self-government is also expected to make the most effort to, in synergy with other participants of the public and private sector, determine the directions of the further desired sustainable tourism development and of the strategic management of a tourist destination. This is particularly significant in destinations in which foreign citizens are the hotel company owners and whose sole interest is profit.

tourism; local community; training; tourist development

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