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MacedoniaGuide is Macedonian official tourism portal, a site which incorporates travel information on Macedonia, Macedonian hotels, restaurants, agencies, including off- the- beaten track tours like rock art tours, various Balkan tours, cave safari, paragliding and biking tours. Here you will find information on Macedonia events, concerts, cultural and historical tours, especially about the Macedonian pearl Ohrid and the Ohrid Lake, Mavrovo and other less known but exquisite places.

Macedonia is 83rd most attractive tourist destination in the world

Macedonian ranks 83rd among most attractive traveling destinations and tourism development in World Economic Forum's Report on Travel and Tourism Competitiveness 2007. Travel and Tourism Index, covering 124 countries around the world, has given Macedonia 3,81 index, sharing it with Kazakhstan and Gambia, ranked 82nd and 84th respectively.

According to the report, most attractive travel and tourist destinations in the world are Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The top 10 list includes Iceland, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Luxembourg and United Kingdom. Furthermore, Angola, Burundi and Chad hit the bottom of the list.

Greece has the highest rank (24th) among Southeast European countries, followed by Croatia (38), Turkey (52), Bulgaria (54), Serbia and Montenegro (61) and Romania (76). Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina have lower rank that Macedonia, being 90th and 104th respectively.

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI), the first ever, has provided assessments in accordance with 13 categories, which include political conditions, legal regulations, security, health care and hygiene, traffic and touristic infrastructure, IT and telecommunications development, human resources, price competitiveness, natural and cultural resources.

- The index is not a ‘beauty contest’, or a statement about the attractiveness of a country. On the contrary, the index measures the factors that make it attractive to develop the travel and tourism industry of individual countries, said Jennifer Blanke, Senior Economist of the World Economic Forum.