Tourism potential of Prespa as an opportunity for investment

Abstract

Changes in global tourism characteristics of world acquirement and numerous challenges have prompted many 
countries to plan their strategies for making tourism one of the most powerful and sustainable economic 
development. 
This paper aims to present the natural potentials, to highlight the cultural and historical reasons (cultural 
heritage). Consequently, we present all possible shapes of tourism, which have the opportunity to develop, to 
analyze data with a tourism resort with the same potential, to identify problems why it is not developing at the 
same level. Further we present investment opportunities, and needed measures for a sustainable tourism in 
Prespa as primary economic branch.  
Natural potentials are of a great and decisive importance in the development of tourism.  
Cultural and historical motifs in Prespa are numerous, especially in rural areas with values and  opportunities of 
using but there is a lack of a good job by the central and local governments for identifying and processing these 
values. 
Various forms of tourism are an opportunity for gathering tourists throughout the year and not just during the 
summer season. 
Comparison of touristic data with another touristic area with potentials approximately the same highlights the 
defects encountered in the area concerned. 
The attraction of the area is an opportunity for foreign and domestic investors in the establishment of a tourist 
area with tourist contemporary models. 
By sustainable development of tourism we understand the management of all resources in order to meet 
economic needs, social and aesthetic, which preserves cultural integrity, basic ecological processes, biodiversity 
and life support systems wich is entirely possible in Prespa.