Klastre cestovného ruchu ako faktor regionálneho rozvoja v území Nízkych Tatier

Tourism Clusters as a Factor of Regional Development in Low Tatras Region

Bohuslava Gregorová

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 16, Číslo (Issue) 1, 2012, p. 77-85, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2012.16.1.77-85

Abstract

At present, applies global business trend of building strategic alliances on the principle of cooperation, complementarity and especially innovation. This networking of companies can transform into a cluster. Although the concept of clusters is initially applied in industry, gradually the idea of co-operation of companies in order to increase competitiveness and improve market position, was also transferred to the field of tourism. The emergence of tourism clusters is bound to a natural area with high potential and many cultural and historical monuments. As Low Tatras are the most attractive mountains of Slovakia, tourism clusters Liptov and Horehronie were formed here. Their activity is reflected particularly in the construction of a wide range of services and tourism products, resulting in an increase in traffic and revenue growth of tourism. In this way, tourism clusters becoming a tool of regional development.

Keywords: tourism cluster, regional development, Low Tatras mountain, cluster Liptov, cluster Horehronie

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