The alternative tourism is becoming more interesting for the foreign tourists. The Slovenians, the Germans and the Dutch enjoy walks in national parks, they want to taste Macedonian specialties, but that is not enough.
Tourist guides appeal that the offer must enlarge. One of the possibilites is cross-border cooperation.
“We have great potential to develop the alternative tourism and should use it. Besides the food, wine and mountain biking, in the program we have included diving and we are also thinking to intensify the parachuting”, says Saso Apostoloski, touristic worker from Ohrid.
Rural tourism is especially attractive.
“Here, the tourists do not come exclusively for the beaches. We need to give them something more to see. Typical example is the village of Elsani where guests eat domestic food, cook together with the hosts, ride donkeys, enjoy the nature”, adds Apostoloski.
Gonce Jakovlevska from Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation claims that we should do everything possible to attract foreign tourists, but we must not neglect the domestic guests.
