Pregledni rad

Security and Tourism in Croatia

Dorotea Strelec orcid.org/0000-0002-2872-4364 ; studentica doktorskog studija na Sveučilištu u Ljubljani

Sažetak

This paper deals with the safety of Croatian tourism by examining how security incidents affect the global image of Croatia as a tourist country. There has not been much research done on this topic, even though tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in modern times. However, the tourism industry is severely affected by external factors like non-traditional security threats. Security incidents such as the increasingly common terrorist attacks disturb the normal functioning of the tourism industry because they negatively affect the public image of tourist countries, which then impacts those countries’ economies. Croatia is number one in the European Union in terms of international tourism revenue to GDP ratio, which is why it is immensely important that it preserves the image of a very secure tourism country. Research shows that there is close cooperation established between different actors in the tourism industry and those in charge of security, which indicates that Croatia’s crisis management is developed in the context of tourism. However, an analysis of security documents shows that political decision makers do not pay enough attention to tourism security, even though tourism is one of the most vital industries.

Ključne riječi

tourism safety; croatia; tourism sector; security challenges; crisis management

Hrčak ID:

236099

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/236099

Datum izdavanja:

23.3.2020.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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