Fig. 10: Number of visitors in mountain resorts in Timok region, 2009-2011 (Source of data: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia)
4.3 Mountain areas Due to their natural and environmental attributes, landscape qualities, geo- and biodiversity, as well as development potential, especially in tourism, high mountainous areas are a valuable resource for Serbia. In Eastern Serbia, ski slopes are located in Stara Mountain, in Majdanpek and Zajecar municipalities, Rtanj near Boljevac and Crni Vrh near Bor. Fast growth mountain tourism development has occurred recently in the Stara Mountain, where total state investments on infrastructure amounted to over 36 million euro for the period 2004-2009. Among the mountain areas of national importance in Eastern Serbia are the mountains of the CarpathianBalkan Arc with their highest peaks: Somrda (Somrdski kamen : 803m), Liskovac (V.liskovac : 803m), Miroc (Veliki Strbac : 768m), Veliki Greben (V.Crni Vrh : 656m), Deli Jovan (Crni Vrh : 1,141m), Homoljske planine (Stubej : 940m), Veliki Krs (no name : 1,148m), Mali Krs (Garvan : 929m), Beljanica (Velika Kapa : 1,339m), Kucajske Mountains (V.Tresta : 1,284m), Rtanj (Siljak : 1,570m), Tupiznica (Glogovacki vrh : 1,160m), Devica (Capljinac : 1,187m), Ozren (Leskovik : 1,174m) and Stara Mountain (Midzor: 2,170m). High mountainous areas are however facing numerous problems related to tourism development, including: incomplete infrastructure; potential conflict between environmental protection and tourism development; inefficient system for sustainable management of protected areas; incomplete implementation of the strategy on development and environmental protection; gap between quality of infrastructure in high mountainous areas and the developed touristic areas of other parts of Serbia; slow legal and economic mechanisms hindering development of these areas;
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