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Attractive accomodation capacities in countryside (Croatia)

Small and traditional communities are increasingly beginning to experience significant attention from tourism, as an increasing number of travelers wish to experience living cultures and traditional ways of life. Rural tourism consists of much more than travel and related businesses in rural areas. There is a great importance of the rural setting and atmosphere, which is tangibly and emotionally separate from urban or resort tourism. Tourist demand in the segment of rural tourism is extremely heterogeneous in its needs, expectations and activities, and can be regarded as ‘ in constant growth’ . Trend of tourists’ decisions of taking several shorter trips during a year leaves enough space for making one of the trips, a trip into rural area. In general, there is a growing trend of interest in natural and cultural heritage, including, of course, rural ambience. For tourists one of the important part of rural tourism product are accommodation capacities. Tourists seek for authentic accommodation capacities ; old houses are for sure the most attractive. The different models and supporting instrument for restoration of old houses as accommodation capacities in countryside in Croatia are analyzed in the paper.

old houses; countryside; accommodation management; tourism product

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