Tourism – Economic activity aimed at organizing trips and temporary accommodation People beyond their permanent place of residence, not longer than one calendar year, for rest, entertainment, rehabilitation, visit cultural and sporting events, natural attractions, historical monuments, etc., But not for acquiring income. Tourism can be: recreational, entertainment, cultural, congress, transit, religious, environmental, health, picnic, marine, lake, mountain, spa, rural, urban, domestic, international, InboD, an internal, national, etc. It is closely related to the output of other sectors in the economy, such as: hospitality, crafts, traffic, trade, “entertainment industry”, culture, etc. Tourism in Macedonia is an economic sector with significant, but not sufficiently used opportunities and capacities. In SRM, statistics followed tourism integral-but with catering. In the period 1945-1965 In the country, labor resorts were mainly built, while modern hotels were built after 1965. The growth rate of the social product in tourism in the period 1953-1988 was 2.9% and is, almost twice lower than that of the total economy. Turisband in Gradiste, Ohrid The TICKO offer in Macedonia consists of: the three tectonic lakes (Ohrid, Prespa and Dojran), 38 glacial and 22 artificial lakes; Rivers: Vardar, Crn Drim, Babuna, fever and especially the Radika River, which abounds with unique relief features; Falls (especially Smolare and Kolesino); Sources (Biljanini, Vevcani, those with holy on-mind, etc.); Natural rarities (three national park, 10 special reserves, two landscapes with special natural beauties, 55 cultural monuments, three memorial monuments of nature); Archaeological sites (Skupi, Stobi and Heraclea, as well as ancient buildings: Samuil Fortress, Skopje Kale, the Fortress Marvinci, Vinica Kale, Mark Towers), the numerous churches with beautiful frescoes and icons, spa spots; Mountains, etc. The Macedonian tourist offer enriches the numerous sacred objects, as well as the unique architecture of many urban and rural settlements (Ohrid, Krusevo, Veles, Skopje, Mavrovo Lake Kuli, Prilep Stip, Galichnik, Smilevo), etc. Part of the tourist offer are also numerous cultural institutions (museums, galleries, ethno-settings, etc.) and manifestations (Ohrid Summer, Skopje Jazz Festival, May Opera Evenings, Galichnik Wedding, Film Festival-Sky Camera in Bitola, Struga Evenings of Poetry and others), which are part of the so-called. Cultural tourism and round the country’s tourist offer. Obviously, the comparative advantages of Macedonian tourism, to a significant extent are tied to the rich historical and cultural past of the country – from ancient archaeological sites, through the monuments of the Ohrid literary center towards the end of the ⅸ and the beginning of the ⅹ century and the spread of the Slavic script from these areas of commercial Accommodation offer in Macedonia (1991-2004) across the entire Slavic world, to the sumptuous medieval churches with miraculous frescoes and icons. The participation of tourism in the formation of the country’s gross domestic product, in the period 1991-2004, is relatively low, and on average it is about 1.7%. The main problems of tourism are located in the short tourist season (which points to a low level of capacity utilization), which in turn is conditioned by the relatively poor offer of new tourist content, from modest investments for propaganda and tourist promotion of the country, inadequate airplane Communications with European and world metropolises, etc. The number of tourists in the country, 2004, was reduced to 465.015, compared to 710,278 tourists since 1991. Today, the share of hotels and restaurants in the formation of GDP of the country remains marginally – in the period 2000-2005. It is maintained at the level of about 1.5%. Lit.: State Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Macedonia, Skopje, 2006; M. Ackovska, Tourism and Economic Development of the Republic of Macedonia, 2007, 133-164. D. E.- T. F. Accumulating Lake Turia
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