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The reception of tourist buses taken as a tourist product quality element in urban destination

In each tourism destination dominantly accessible by road traffic, a considerable amount of tourist arrivals is performed by tourist buses. Their capacity and speed, rich equipment and manners of use make tourist buses an inevitable means in the organisation of days-long travels, excursions, sightseeing and transfers. Lower cost of traffic service as compared to some other traffic modalities and the flexibility of use make tourist buses a widely accepted form of traffic in tourist purposes. During tourism season in urban destinations the presence of large number of tourism buses can be noticed. Because of the dominant role of passenger cars and big traffic problems present in urban destinations, the role of tourist buses remains neglected and left out of researches. Naturally, this results in lack of a complete project of organisation of both moving and still bus traffic in the area of destination, leading to improvised solutions. Tourists arriving in tourist buses, unlike those arriving by passenger cars, become "second-rate" tourists, considering the quality of tourist service in the destination. In this paper the need and modalities of high quality tourist buses reception in urban destinations is pointed out, in order to enable tourists who choose this mode of transport to enjoy a high quality tourism product. In this purpose an initial research regarding tourism buses reception on "Delta" parking in the city of Rijeka has been performed.

tourist buses; tourist supply; urban destination; parking areas for tourist buses; city of Rijeka.

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