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Tourism development in rural areas has been the focus of numerous governmental activities and plans in the past decade. All efforts aiming at its stabilization have been performed by actions as to establish sustainable European tourism as well as to keep it in a good shape as a continuous process. Bearing this in mind as well as emphasizing the specific problems means creating development plans. Development plans have been intended for and aimed at public organizations, private business and other organizations at a European, national, regional and local level. By participating in the EU pre-integration and then integration programmes, Bulgaria has chances for developing a sustainable tourism, which will make it possible to unite all sides.
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Aleksandrova, E. (2019). An Application of the EU Financial Instruments for Rural Tourism Development. In: Kozak, N., Kozak, M. (eds) Tourist Destination Management. Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16981-7_8
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