Lena Mirošević

TURIZAM VELA LUKE – SADAŠNJE STANJE I MOGUĆNOSTI RAZVOJA

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2008.2.372

UDC: 911.3:338.48-44(497.5Vela Luka)

Abstract: Vela Luka is a settlement located in the western part of the island of Korčula, which experienced a remarkable transformation of social and geographical features in the twentieth century. The thesis analyses the statistic data associated with the population growth as well as the alteration of the population economic structure which provides reconstruction in the process of deruralisation, de-agrarization and deindustralization. The thesis has demonstrated present tourism development rate in Vela Luka as the upgrowth, seen from geographical point of view. Particular concern has been dedicated to the strategy of further tourism development along with the current infrastructure and indispensable additional investments with a final aim of sustainable development of the island tourism. Thereby potential modes of tourism which endrose such a concept have been explored.

Key words: Vela Luka, littoralisation, social and geographical features, population structure, tourism, valorization of tourist resources.

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