Relationship between tourism and cultural landscape – a new sustainable development model

Аннотация

The paper examines conflicts among the ideas of heritage and tourism and argues sustainable approach to tourism planning in cultural landscape. The research introduces heritage urbanism, as a sustainable method for enhancing the role of heritage in tourism as a local development tool, stressing that active use of cultural landscape in tourism can bring about a positive response to global competitiveness and development of tourist site, regarding its positive influence on destination recognition and heritage revitalization. It investigates specific problematic context of tourism planning and tension between the preservation of the existing landscape’s character and change based on the example of the Croatian Island of Vis.