Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia
Space as a resource is intensively used both by the tourism and the local community. Therefore the state of the tourism development must be measured trough time, along with attitudes of local population, to determine the impacts and the pressure that can continues tourism development c...
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| description | Space as a resource is intensively used both by the tourism and the local community. Therefore the state of the tourism development must be measured trough time, along with attitudes of local population, to determine the impacts and the pressure that can continues tourism development cause. In the 1990s, tourism becomes the motor of the development of Croatia, which has resulted in continues increase of the number of tourist beds. On the other hand population of the Croatia is experiencing the demographic extinction. To explain pressures of the tourism development on the decreasing community, tourism function index was used in comparison with the research of the attitudes of local population considering tourism impacts. The main objective of this paper is to determine the correlation between the increase in the number of tourists and changes in the life of local population, which arises from the tourism activities in destinations, as well as from the ratio of the number of residents and tourists. The attitudes analysis has shown high level of the negative impacts of tourism in seven Adriatic counties, while in continental parts of Croatia tourism is seen as an activity with mostly positive effects. Still tourism has generally positive impact on the destination and is seen as desirable activity, even in areas with relatively high tourism function index. Accordingly, to enhance the positive impacts it is essential to diminish extremely big differences in tourism development between too developed coastal areas and mainly neglected continental part of the country and to reduce seasonality of tourism, trough sustainable management and diversification of tourism offer in accordance with spatial disparities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6462977abdcf4fa08ddf0274f7a28cfa2022-12-21T22:31:50ZengUniversity of Novi SadTurizam1450-66611821-11272015-07-0119398110Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of CroatiaIzidora Marković0Zoran Klarić1Institute for Tourism, Vrhovec 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; Corresponding author: izidora.markovic@iztzg.hrInstitute for Tourism, Vrhovec 5, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaSpace as a resource is intensively used both by the tourism and the local community. Therefore the state of the tourism development must be measured trough time, along with attitudes of local population, to determine the impacts and the pressure that can continues tourism development cause. In the 1990s, tourism becomes the motor of the development of Croatia, which has resulted in continues increase of the number of tourist beds. On the other hand population of the Croatia is experiencing the demographic extinction. To explain pressures of the tourism development on the decreasing community, tourism function index was used in comparison with the research of the attitudes of local population considering tourism impacts. The main objective of this paper is to determine the correlation between the increase in the number of tourists and changes in the life of local population, which arises from the tourism activities in destinations, as well as from the ratio of the number of residents and tourists. The attitudes analysis has shown high level of the negative impacts of tourism in seven Adriatic counties, while in continental parts of Croatia tourism is seen as an activity with mostly positive effects. Still tourism has generally positive impact on the destination and is seen as desirable activity, even in areas with relatively high tourism function index. Accordingly, to enhance the positive impacts it is essential to diminish extremely big differences in tourism development between too developed coastal areas and mainly neglected continental part of the country and to reduce seasonality of tourism, trough sustainable management and diversification of tourism offer in accordance with spatial disparities.http://www.dgt.uns.ac.rs/turizam/arhiva/vol_1903_1.pdfCroatia; impact; tourism; local population; pressure; tourism function indexCroatiaimpacttourismlocal populationpressuretourism function index |
| spellingShingle | Izidora Marković Zoran Klarić Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia Turizam Croatia; impact; tourism; local population; pressure; tourism function index Croatia impact tourism local population pressure tourism function index |
| title | Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia |
| title_full | Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia |
| title_short | Attitudes of Local Population of Tourism Impacts on Destination Sustainability – Case of Croatia |
| title_sort | attitudes of local population of tourism impacts on destination sustainability case of croatia |
| topic | Croatia; impact; tourism; local population; pressure; tourism function index Croatia impact tourism local population pressure tourism function index |
| url | http://www.dgt.uns.ac.rs/turizam/arhiva/vol_1903_1.pdf |
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