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Tourism Features within the European Union with special attention paid to Croatia

Due to a high living standard of their citizens and to their particular inclination to tourist voyages, European Union member countries nowadays include most of the leading world emissive centers. Europe has always been attractive to tourists, with its member countries determining the contemporary tourism movements. At the same time, it represents an organized body where joint rules and standards on tourism are formed in order to develop in accordance with the whishes of the contemporary tourist demand which is nowadays defining new offer forms and new trends in tourism management. Member countries of the European Union, among which particularly the highlydeveloped ones which, due to their resources, their tourist tradition, and the development of particular selective tourism forms, obtain great results in attracting tourists by smoothing the way to such a heterogeneous demand. Lately they have been associated by some new member countries which, as new tourist markets, obtain significant growth in both emissive and receptive tourist movements. As the result of the added integration processes, and of the simplification and the inexpensiveness of tourist voyages, the further growth in a number of tourist voyages from and within the European Union is predictable. Considering its further spreading and the great number of voyages, the global importance of the European Union will undoubtedly continue to grow. The integration processes developing throughout Europe do not allow a single country to sit on the fence, so the full membership represents the priority for Croatia as well. When entering the European Union, various important changes will occur in the sector of Croatian tourism as its main economic driving force. Croatia represents a traditionally tourism oriented country with all the prerogatives to include its tourism offer into the European tourism flows, and will try to solve the “European challenge” on market relations level applying all the necessary efforts in avoiding traps and dangers of possible tourist marginalization within the tough competition conditions and the European Union protectionism measures. Consequently, in order for the Croatian tourism offer to integrate as soon as possible into the European tourism offer, the necessity of aiming at crossing the gap between the variegated highly- developed countries’ offer and our own offer pauperism. European Union member states include nowadays most of the leading world emissive centers, mostly due to a high living standard of their citizens and to their inclination to travel. Europe has always been attractive to tourists, therefore determining the contemporary tourism movements. At the same time, it represents an organized body with rules and standards on tourism developed in accordance with the whishes of the contemporary tourist demand. observing and applying all the possible experience, solutions, and standards from the tourism developed in the countries members of the European Union is manifested, aiming at crossing the gap between the variegated highly-developed countries’ offer and our own offer pauperism. European Union member states include nowadays most of the leading world emissive centers, mostly due to a high living standard of their citizens and to their inclination to travel. Europe has always been attractive to tourists, therefore determining the contemporary tourism movements. At the same time, it represents an organized body with rules and standards on tourism developed in accordance with the whishes of the contemporary tourist demand.

EU tourism ; integration processes ; Croatia ; tourism movements ; contemporary tourism trends

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