Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the...

Purpose – This paper explores the current condition and the possible development perspectives of creative tourism in the tourist destination of Kvarner. Design – The research starts with a broadened conceptual definition of creative tourism which denotes meeting the tourists’ needs within...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explain problem of education and training of personnel in the hospitality and tourism sector, which takes a special place and special attention among jobs in the tourism, hotel and hospitality industry. The overall quality within the hospitality and tourism sector...

Purpose – Bathing areas represent eternal destination for a man led by his/her pristine tendency for direct contact with nature. However, the sustainability of and the access to this delicate part of the already vulnerable coastal system is endangered by human activities such as shore...

Purpose – The purpose of the research is to examine the awareness of hoteliers on energy efficiency and environmental protection. The authors wanted to know whether the hotel companies in the inner regions of Istria and Kvarner implement or plan to implement energy efficiency measures in order...

Purpose – This paper researches and analyzes the seasonality of tourist demand for visiting protected areas in relation to ecological, economical, technological and socio-cultural sustainability. It focuses on protected areas which has a special type of tourism, especially category II –...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine social change of a post-socialist Czech rural locality and community with regard to the large scale tourism development that has been taking place in this area since the late 1990s. The aim is to understand how the post-socialist transformation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to support the thesis that the concept of sustainable tourism development around the world has good quality and at the same time consolidate the ecological, economic and sociological dimension. The biggest challenge of economic and social development...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse residents’ attitudes towards tourism potentials of small rural city Požega. Design – The special emphasis is on the satisfaction of local residents’ with tourist facilities, their involvement in the tourism development and their stands of...

The purpose – Cultural and city tourism are intensively promoted by most Central and Southeast European countries. But frequently identity and historiography of the modern nation states is at odds with some periods of history and emphasizes others. This may result in a rather selective...