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Tourism planning in the region of Istria: historical overview and future prospects

The aim of this paper is to present a historical overview and current trends in tourism planning and development in the coastal area of Istria, with particular reference to the seaside resorts of Portorož and Opatija now parts of Slovenia and Croatia respectively, but sharing a history of changing states and borders. Ever since its beginnings tourism has been an important industry in the area and the article brings the light to the impacts of changing political regimes and powers on tourism in the last 150 years. The main research question we tackled was how the constant socio-political changes influenced and transformed tourism development and planning and how they shaped the current tourism situation in Istria. The paper represents a part of one of the first comprehensive analyses in this field that was produced within an IPA cross border cooperation project between Slovenia and Croatia: Tourism as a common (cultural) heritage in the coastal part of the Istrian peninsula (HISTUR).

Tourism planning; Istria; Slovenia; Croatia

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