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Tourist assessment of Croatian Roads

As environmentally clean industry and as the most significant world regarding the number of employees and the impact on the social and economic development of a country, tourism represents an extremely important social and economic branch for Croatia. As a functional unit of the mutually interweaving social and economic relations, tourism is a complex phenomenon whose development depends on a number of compatible factors out of which the transport infrastructure is considered to be the most obvious and almost the most significant one, i. E. The first among the equal. This is primarily true for road traffic infrastructure, since road transportation of tourists by passenger cars, buses and motorcycles account for more than 90 percent of the overall tourist journeys in Croatia. The topic of this paper is precisely, among other things, the tourist assessment of the Croatian road network by means of the so-called econometric model regarding the contribution of a certain road route to the overall tourist traffic. Practical implementation of the elaborated problematic should result in the improvement of road infrastructure either by constructing new motorways and/or roads, or by reconstructing and/or modernization of the existing traffic routes

tourism; roads in Croatia; tourist assessement; economic model

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