Development of a Unique Product

Perception of Guests in Tourism in Vineyard Cottages on the Local Environment

Abstract

Purpose and Originality: Tourism in vineyard cottages is new, authentic, unique tourism product, which involves the area of  wine-growing land Posavje, with districts of Dolenjska (Lower Carniola Region), Bela Krajina and Obsotelje-Kozjansko, where are the wine-growing areas with vineyards and vineyard cottages. Tourists in vineyard cottages bring economic benefits to the local community.

Method: With the research we gained the information, where local residents can see positive and where negative impacts of guests who come to the vineyard cottages. As the part of descriptive approach in our research we used a method of a description about the opinion of local residents on impact of arriving tourists in tourist vineyard cottages on the local environment and the method of a compilation discoveries, observations and results. In the activities of analytical approach we are going on the base about the results of questioning individual cases and conclusion about opinion of local inhabitants in the area of marketing the tourism product Tourism in vineyard cottages.

Results: Considering the results of the research, individual interviews with guests in the area of product Tourism in vineyard cottages and responses in the local environment, we evaluate, that the product has unique, authentic, original and attractive approach with all the possibilities, that it becomes one of the most recognizable, wanted and paraded integral product of Slovenian tourism.

Society: New, innovative, attractive, unique and authentic product Tourism in vineyard cottages, which is developed in the wine-growing region Posavje, it has an extremely great potential, because it is one of the most recognizable forms of tourism in the countryside areas, and it has extra perspective with the creating local stories and connecting into the integral tourism products.

Limitations / further research: It is necessary, that also other owners of the vineyard cottages, who are not included into the product Tourism in vineyard cottages yet, manage their capacities and infrastructure and include into a model of organizing Tourism in vineyard cottages – economically organization, which is dealing with planning, development, organization, implementation, promotion and marketing.