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The territory of LAG Belovo, Septemvri and Velingrad is extremely beneficial for development of different forms of tourism, which can lead to overall economic development of the territory, improving the quality of life of the local population, promoting employment and attracting new investments. Natural and anthropogenic resources of the territory predispose to development of many forms of tourism. The main problems existing in the sector is still not well developed tourism infrastructure, which is an obstacle to making tourism a major and significant sector for development of the local economy. The products offered to tourists are characterized by low diversity. On the territory dominates spa and balneo tourism – mainli during weekends. Other types of tourism products are much less developed.

The presence of numerous protected areas and natural monuments, which preserve and protect an exceptional natural wealth, are a huge advantage for development of ecotourism product. The most important prerequisites for development of natural and eco-tourism are: the establishment of appropriate tourism infrastructure to facilitate access to sites of high nature value /construction of trails, hiking trails, bike lanes and other/; tourist infrastructure for recreation in nature and tourist infrastructure, aimed at giving comprehensive information and knowledge about different objects.