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Transport accessibility as a factor of tourist flow in Croatian national parks and nature parks

The aim of the chapter is to assess transport accessibility and examine its connection to tourist flows in Croatian national parks and nature parks. The research included 16 of the 19 Croatian national parks and nature parks, i.e. those for which it was possible to identify the entrances used by the majority of visitors. The assessment of transport accessibility for these 16 entrances to protected areas was conducted using the following indicators: a) public transport connectivity (bus, ship/catamaran/ferry) ; b) public transport frequency ; c) road transport connectivity ; d) temporal distance from cities/towns ; and e) temporal distance from larger tourist centres. The scoring of individual indicators for each protected area was determined and the protected areas were ranked accordingly. In order to determine the connection between transport accessibility and tourist flow, a correlation analysis was conducted for each national park and nature park, with the transport accessibility score as the independent variable and the number of visitors as the dependent variable.

transport accessibility ; tourist flow ; national park ; nature park ; sustainable development ; geography ; Croatia

Znanstvena knjiga nastala je temelju rezultata istraživanja na znanstveno-istraživačkom projektu "Komparativna analiza prostornog razvoja turizma u zaštićenim područjima Hrvatske i Slovenije" u sklopu zajedničke hrvatsko-slovenske znanstveno-tehnološke suradnje (partner iz Hrvatske: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Geografski odsjek, partner iz Slovenije: Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanistične študije, Oddelek za geografijo, Koper - voditelji: prof. dr. sc. Vuk Tvrtko Opačić izv. prof. dr. sc. Miha Koderman; MZO, ARRS).