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Sustainable tourism in the small and medium tourism businesses in albania • Statistics of Tourism Ministry. • Albania tourism Guidelines. • Albanian organisations tourism websites. • Environmental Monitoring Agency. Tourism Today - Fall 2007 - Full Paper 149
150 Ski - resort and regional development: profile of visitors and appraisal of demand in parnassos ski - resort Ski – resort and regional development: profile of visitors and appraisal of demand in Parnassos ski - resort Olga Christopoulou, Garyfallos Arabatzis and Serafeim Polyzos ABSTRACT ochris@prd.uth.gr garamp@fmenr.duth.gr spolyzos@prd.uth.gr Good quality information and in depth knowledge about the characteristics and preferences of ski-resorts visitors is of extreme importance to better organize the resort and increase the demand for participating in skiing activities. In turns, this can lead to an increase of the importance and development role of the skiing resort for the broader district. This paper targets at achieving some estimations of demand of winter-mountainous tourism in Parnassos skiresort in Greece as well as at analyzing the special characteristics of the winter visitors. The methodology involved a social survey by means of questionnaires. On site personal interviews was the specific technique. Data analysis was accomplished by using descriptive statistics and linear regression. More specifically, they were studied the preferences and characteristics of ski-resort visitors as well as the factors affecting the frequency of visits to the ski-resort and the staying duration. The most important conclusions resulted from the research are: (a) the majority of both visitors and skiers have or are in the state of acquiring academic education, (b) the majority of visitors are students (School/College/Universities), (c) the majority of visitors consider the lack of time as the main deterrent factor for more frequent visits to the Parnassos ski - resort, and (d) the exercise in ski and the love for the nature were the main reasons for which the individuals visit the ski resort. Moreover, it was realized that the frequency of visits to the Parnassos ski – resort depended on the type of profession, the visit cost, the distance in kilometers between the Parnassos ski – resort and the place of residence and the time - distance for accessing the resort. Keywords: ski-resort, individual and social characteristics, visitors’ preferences, regional development. 1. INTRODUCTION Tourism, as an economic activity, has played a significant role in regional economic development especially in mitigating to a substantial degree regional economic inequalities as well as improving local people’s standards of living. Through the years it has turned out that tourism Tourism Today - Fall 2007 - Full Paper
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