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Purpose:
This study focuses on the phenomenon of organized criminality and corruption. Its purpose is to analyse and explain how organized crime and corruption impact the processes of environmentally sustainable development and, indirectly, the development of tourist destinations and activities.
Design/Methods/Approach:
We analyzed relationships between tourist destinations, sustainable tourism, organized crime, and corruption from secondary data. We further synthesize findings and supplement them with observations and previous research findings.
Findings:
Organized crime and corruption have a direct impact on the sustainable development of tourist destinations and also on the services and activities of sustainable tourism. Based on a comparison of several indexes, the sustainable development of tourist destinations is greatly (negatively) affected by eco-criminality which holds back the development of sustainable tourism. It can be concluded that countries with less corruption have a better developmental sustainability, which is the building block of sustainable tourism.
Originality/Value:
Developing theoretical explanations and systematic studies are necessary as a first order of business if countries wish to prosecute organized crime and corruption relating to tourism. This is the first study in Slovenia dealing with this problem, thereby opening many questions for future research.
UDC: 343.3/.7:338.48
Keywords: sustainable tourism, sustainable development, corruption, organized crime, tourist destinations
Vpliv korupcije in organizirane kriminalitete na razvoj trajnostnega turizma
Namen prispevka:
Prispevek se osredotoca na podrocje organizirane kriminalitete in korupcije, in sicer je namen raziskati in pojasniti vpliv le-teh na proces trajnostnega razvoja in posredno tudi na trajnostni razvoj turisticnih destinacij.
Metode:
Analizirali smo povezave med turisticnimi destinacijami, trajnostnim turizmom, organizirano kriminaliteto ter korupcijo s pomocjo sekundarnih podatkov. Nadalje smo naredili sintezo ugotovitev ter le-te dopolnili in primerjali z rezultati preteklih raziskav.
Ugotovitve:
Organizirana kriminaliteta in korupcija neposredno vplivata na trajnostni razvoj turisticnih destinacij kot tudi na aktivnosti trajnostnega turizma. S pomocjo primerjave med vec kazalniki ugotavljamo, da na trajnostni razvoj turisticnih destinacij momo negativno vpliva t. i. ekokriminaliteta, ki zavira razvoj trajnostnega turizma. Na podlagi ugotovitev zakljucujemo, da imajo drzave z nizjo stopnjo korupcije boljsi trajnostni razvoj, kar je osnova za razvoj trajnostnega turizma.
Izvirnost prispevka:
Razvoj teoreticnih razlag in sistematicnih studij je nujen korak, ce zelijo drzave preganjati organizirano kriminaliteto in korupcijo v turizmu. Pricujoca studija je prva v Sloveniji, ki obravnava to podrocje in posledicno odpira mnoga podrocja za...