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Les biens naturels constituent une partie de l'offre touristique primaire. En conséquence, il est caractéristique qu'ils ne sont pas le produit du travail de l'homme, qu'ils n'ont pas de valeur propre et, dans la règle, qu'ils ne sont pas soumis à un prix sur le marché. L'offre primaire se distingue de l'offre touristique secondaire par le fait qu'il n'est pas possible de produire ces biens ou que l'homme ne peut plus les produire dans la même qualité, ce qui est le cas par exemple pour les monuments et les curiosités culturo‐historiques.

Les variations saisonnières sont une des caractéristiques principales du tourisme moderne. Par son changement constant et régulier dans le domaine de la quantité de l'offre et de la demande au cours d'une année, le tourisme se distingue essentiellement des autres activités économiques. Ce sont justement les variations saisonnières de la fréquence qui provoquent dans l'économie touristique les problèmes spécifiques qui se manifestent ici avec plus d'acuité qu'ailleurs.

One of the basic flaws of the tourist economy in Yugoslavia before the second world war was the fact that it was hardly profitable. This resulted in scarcity of investments in tourist enterprises falling very much short of actual needs. Insofar as funds were put aside for tourist investments, they were generally low and spread over a large number of units and used without any system at all. New tourist buildings did not fit into a broader plan, while residential areas only slowly developed into places with tourist interests. In this spontaneous growth many irrational relationships emerged between various branches, e. g. there was a relatively too fast development of catering industry with the communications and public amenities lagging behind. The result of unsystematic growth of tourist places, especially the result of a very low rate of profit derived from tourism before the war, was already at that time a high degree of wear and tear of fixed assets accompanied by a strong need of further investments.

Until now the majority of researchers of sports tourism have focused their research on the tourist and their characteristics, meaning, on the demand. Since the majority of authors (Gibson 1998; Seddighi and Theoracharous 2002; Hudson 2003; ?inch and Higham 2001) studied tourists and their characteristics we decided to focus on the providers of active sports holidays. According to Planina, Mihali_(2002, pg. 29) the tourism model is built on demand and supply. The supply side was analyzed by WTO (2004) in their research amongst European tour operators with the highest turnover in order to establish how sport features in products involving Latin America. Based on this idea we decided to carry out a research amongst providers of active sports holidays and asked them about a typical client. We divided the providers into segments according to the type of guests. The research was carried out to find the answer to the question “What do providers of active sports holidays offer in Slovenia and how they perceive their guests?” We were interested to know what they actually offer and the trend of the enquiries they receive from their visitors. The characteristics of the visitors are important to help providers decide how to develop their facilities to meet the demands of the market. We learnt that in Slovenia the majority of tourists are short‐length stays. We also researched the supply and demand and learnt that the providers expect the demand to be highest for skiing and cycling. In the largest of the segments the activities most frequently offered are swimming (water sports), tennis (racquet sports), the usual team sports and skiing. However, the demand for these sports is not growing. Amongst the activities which are in lesser demand but have been defined by the providers as growing are mountain biking and golf.

L'Assemblée nationale tchécoslovaque a voté, le 30 août dernier, le projet d'une «loi portant réglementation des bains et sources tchécoslovaques». Il n'arrive pas souvent que les organes législatifs des Etats traitent des matières entièrement consacrées aux questions du tourisme et voilà pourquoi ce fait — le vote d'une loi balnéaire — mérite d'attirer l'attention des experts du tourisme même en dehors des frontières du pays respectif.

The authors of this case study show the importance of tourism for Slovenia, the host country of the 49th Congress of AIEST which took place from 28th August to 2nd September 1999 in Porto Roz.