The Alternative Tourism and Development of the Regions for Purposeful Support in Bulgaria – Impact of Financial Crisis

Milen PENERLIEV1
1 Shumen University “Bishop K. Preslavski”, Shumen, BULGARIA
E-mail: penerliev@yahoo.com
Pages: 83-86

Abstract. The subjects of the research are mostly the country and those which are in the border area territories of Bulgaria, which are undeveloped compared to the rest of the region. Their natural resources and preserved country life and culture are premise for accelerated development of the alternative tourism. Which the help of the different projects financed by the found of the EU, added to the personal initiative of the population in some parts of these regions the alternative tourism max influence beneficial economic effect. Through analyzing the statistical and demographical pieces of information some of the undeveloped regions of Bulgaria are outlined. Their natural and anthropogenic resources are being analyzed in order to develop the alternative tourism. The negative aspects of the undeveloped regions are being discovered (aggravated age structure, bad MTB and infrastructure etc.). Having in mind all that information me are able to render an account of the positive economic influence of the development of the alternative tourism in the examined regions. 

K e y w o r d s: alternative tourism, rural region, depressive region, development, crisis