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Montenegro, tourism

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Montenegro has an area of 13,812 km2 (5,387 mi2), with a population of 620,000 people (MONSTAT 2013). The country is located in southeast Europe, bordered by Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania (Figure 1). In 2013, direct contribution of travel and tourism was 9.8 % of total GDP (US$469.6 milliard), and its total contribution was 20.0 % of GDP ($961.9 milliard); travel and tourism directly supported 14,500 jobs (8.8 % of total employment), and total contribution to employment was 30,500 jobs (18.3 % of total employment); tourist exports generated $942.5 milliard (51.4 % of total exports), and travel and tourism investment was $280.5 milliard (28.0 % of total investment) (WTTC 2014).

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  1. The Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, The University of Montenegro, Kotor, 85330, Montenegro

    Aleksa Vučetić

  2. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Rochester Institute of Technology, One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, 14623-5603, USA

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Vučetić, A., Lagiewski, R. (2014). Montenegro, tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_662-1

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