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Markovic, S. 
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. observe the following driving factors of tourism: 

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A N I M A T O R I N T O U R I S M
Ivanovski
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"Working and living environment (whose components are urbanization, 
population density, industrialization, unhealthy urban air, political conditions, 
the general level of civilization and cultural environment etc...) 
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Natural environment; 
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Leisure time (paid leisure time, shorter labor time, holidays, etc...) 
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Free resources (level of national income and living standard); 
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Other objective factors (socio-technical creations, privileges and 
benefits, the existence of different resorts, social and touristic 
organizations based on initiative, organization of travel savings etc... " 
Such an understanding gives us the image of the possible external impacts – 
reasons which activate a person as a tourist. There are not only the external 
reasons, but also the internal needs that should be satisfied during the realization 
of tourist stay. Explaining his view on the example of "Robinson Club", 
Finger 
K
. in "Recreation and Sports in the Robinson's Hotels" (1976, p.33) says: 
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Tourism research, nowadays, no longer implies a vacation as a time of a 
temporary idleness with recovery as its purpose. It has many different functions. 
Besides resting, there is a desire for: communication, freedom, fun, activity, 
adventure, further education of own personality.
” 
Respecting the recorded wishes of tourists, Finger, who is a sociologist by 
education, became one of the most respected "tourist animators." Today tourism 
is based on wealth and variety of offers, and special teams of experts are solving 
the problem of "how to present our offer." In short words, the animator is a new 
profession in tourism, which emerged from the need to increase tourists' 
consumption along with their satisfaction for participation. For many years, 
Finger was successfully leading seminars for the formation of this kind of staff, 
in our tourism industry also. 
Connection and interdependence of tourism and recreation is particularly 
interesting for the study. The facts show that every touristic trip can be 
considered, simultaneously, as a certain type of recreation. At the same time as 
a part of touristic stay, there is a whole range of possibilities, often defined with 
a package tour for practicing certain recreational activities.
When analyzing the relations between tourism and recreation, 
Relac
(1979) 
says: "We can observe this connection via following forms: 
1.
 
Sport as an engine that initiates our will for traveling, where the 
possible motives are: 

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a.
 
Watching significant sports events and happenings (from the local 
to the intergovernmental encounters ...) 
b.