Geoadria, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2001.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.162
Review of the Elaphites Islands' Tourist Development
Stanka Veraja
Abstract
The topic of this study is Tourism Development on the Elaphite Islands from the end of the World War I to the present. The Elaphites is a group of islands in the NW of Dubrovnik and so they represent an integral part of Dubrovnik tourist offer. The tourist offer of the Elaphite Islands is based on the beautiful nature, the cultural heritage and the specifics of the environment which are emphasized in this study. The sequence of tables shows the flow of tourism tournover in detail: internacional and domestic tourist arrivals and overnights in figures for particular seasons. This study specially higlights the tourism as an activity on the Elaphite Islands that has been developing successfully and continuously for the past 80 years but in the same time is followed by growing depopulation. The future will clarify whether a new stage of higher quality tourism development could materialize without demographic and economic revival of theses islands.
Keywords
Elaphite Islands; tourism development; accommodation capacities; tourist tournover
Hrčak ID:
9606
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Publication date:
1.9.2001.
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