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Purpose-Purpose of the paper is to determine and analyze obstacles of tourism development in Vukovar-Srijem County. The main focus of this paper is put on analyzing obstacles of tourism development in the County by using the theoretical knowledge about community-based tourism. One of the key objectives is to emphasize the importance of local community in the process of creating tourism product, as they are affected by it either directly or indirectly. Methodology-A desk research method is used for creation of theoretical framework and identification of key obstacles to community-based tourism development. For the purpose of primary research, a deeply structured online questionnaire was created. The main objective of the survey is to identify the level of awareness about tourism development benefits among local residents included in tourism offer. Findings-Based on the conducted research, it is possible to conclude that there is still not enough cooperation between public and private sector within this area. Additionally, authors identify main challenges and provide recommendations for the future tourism development in Vukovar-Srijem County. Contribution-This paper provides thorough theoretical overview of the tourism development theory, with special emphasis on community-based tourism as one of the key potentials in Vukovar-Srijem County. Primary research provides insight into current state of awareness of local service providers about potentials of tourism development within their area, but more importantly, about key obstacles they are faced with. By combining theoretical and empirical conclusions, authors provide recommendations for future improvements. Keywords community-based tourism, obstacles of tourism development, local community, developing region, Vukovar-Srijem County

Sharing economy has become a rather troublesome concept and business model in the process of tourism development during the recent years. Despite its undoubtful economic benefits for service providers and consumers, there are numerous negative impacts which can be related to the sharing economy, ultimately leading to unsustainable tourism development on destination level. In general, sharing economy can be attributed numerous benefits, but in terms of tourism, it recently became closely related to the issue of overtourism, thus becoming one of the initiators of negative attitude of the local community towards the future tourism development. Therefore, the concept of sharing economy has been in the focus of numerous researchers during the last several years, with increasing number of papers being published since 2016. This research is focused on analyzing the evolution and importance of sharing economy within the tourism study. The focus is given to the bibliographic analysis of journal articles within the “sharing economy in tourism” search. Additionally, based on qualitative content analysis the aim is to identify current state of the research in this field and to determine research gap with respect to the issue of overtourism and to identify future research potentials.

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