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Agritourism in Croatia: an overview of current research

In the 21st century, the century of megatrends, tourism has been going through a certain structural transformation. Almost every day, the sector of tourism faces certain changes that leave deep and strong implications, both positive and negative. Although mass tourism still remains the leading form of tourism in the global tourism market, it is – so to say – being increasingly opposed to by specific forms of tourism that are based on the platform of meeting the tourist’s needs and experiences. However, mass tourism will never be fully replaced by specific forms of tourism – they will only stand as strong alternatives to mass tourism. One such form of tourism is certainly agritourism – the most rapidly growing form of rural tourism worldwide. Precisely agritourism has been of a great interest to a growing number of international scientists in the last three decades. In the Republic of Croatia and its academic community, this form of tourism has unjustifiably not gained the place and the significance that it deserves. There is namely a very scarce base of theoretical, as well as empiric research. Therefore, the main goal of this work is to represent the present knowledge and empirical results of Croatian scientists and experts, which were collected in various Croatian tourist regions, at the theoretical and research level. The collected knowledge will be analyzed by use of corresponding scientific methods.

specific forms of tourism, agritourism, tourist regions, research

Rad je indeksiran u sljedećim bazama: Clarivate Analytics, EconPapers, EconBiz