The focus of paper is to analyse the main benefits social tourism brings for older people in Slovenia, as perceived by the stakeholders involved in social tourism for seniors. The paper presents the preliminary results of the ongoing project Identification, classification and potential of development of social tourism products in Slovenia, with an emphasis on programs for seniors with the aims of analysing the situation in the emerging field of social tourism in Slovenia; researching the developmental needs and potentials in the field of development of social tourism products in Slovenia as well as to develop the guidelines for systemic measures in this field. It’s presents the result of qualitative research (half structured interviews) among different actors dealing with social tourism for elderly in Slovenia.
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The aim of this research is to present the social tourism funding system, more specifically to define main funding mechanisms/channels and existing types, scope and trends of the children summer holiday programmes funding. The article presents explanatory findings and qualitative research based on documents obtained and interviews conducted with a representative of the Slovenian Association of Friends of Youth (AFY), which deals with the organisation and implementation of social tourism programmes. The results of the research highlight that fundraising is becoming central task undertaken by the organization. The system of funding is very complex and comprised of six different channels - parent’s contribution, Foundation for the Funding of Invalid Humanitarian Organisations (FIHO) funds, The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (HIIS) funds, community contributions, charity funds and organization’s own funds. The findings of the study show that both infrastructure-orientated funding and beneficiary-orientated funding (co)exist in organization. The research show that the trend is moving towards beneficiary-orientated funding and secondly, from parents and public funding to charity funding where organization is developing long-term public-private partnerships.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539065540