Economic Development and Rural Entrepreneurship in East Croatia

The development of rural tourism is useful to both economic and social stability of rural areas along with employment, prevention of depopulation and migration to urban regions, preservation of values and tradition of rural life’s, the source of recreation and the way of healthy life. In order to develop it, it is necessary to determine the resources of the interested farms and to develop organizing skills of family farm members along with the creation of macro-environs that would provide support of business strategy towards development of rural tourism. Business farm adjustment is a process that depends on both internal and external environs that may direct diversification towards various types. For the last few years the importance of intensification and specialization of production has been emphasized by stimulating measures provided by the administration. Tendencies of the economic development require quite a different approach to rural areas in which not only the importance of primary agricultural production, but also economic and social prosperity of rural areas is stressed.