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Development of database on beaches: Case study

Since both contemporary tourists and local communities are interested in appearance and quality of beaches and sea bathing water, the need arose for the transparent system of sea bathing water quality evaluation for tourists and the local community. Within the implementation of the Regulation on Bathing Water Quality, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning, and Construction, in cooperation with the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries of Split and with the Croatian Environment Agency has developed the database on sea bathing water quality, i.e. web application for entry, processing, and valorization of data, along with reporting and public information on seawater bathing quality data for the Croatian Adriatic beaches. This paper also analyses the database developed to support the entry, processing and evaluation of test results, informing the public, along with national reporting on sea bathing water quality and reporting obligations to the European Union. The author suggests the design of the system of parameters interesting for tourists (i.e. capacity of the beach, parking possibility, sports and other facilities on the beach) and their continuous monitoring and entry into the database. Thus the necessary security measures, standards of tidiness, supply contents, and visual constant could be formed in order to make beaches recognizable. To conclude, in addition to further development and improvement, database must be integrated with GIS Browsers applied in the development of the bathing water profile, with the purpose of market valuation of space, environmental protection, and the growth in the quality of tourism offer and supply.

database ; beaches ; environmental protection ; evaluation of the area ; tourism demand and supply

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