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Croatian Botanical Gardens and Arboreta within the UNESCO’s International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (2017)

Increasingly desirable tourist destination, Croatia is famous for its warm Adriatic Sea, with beautiful coastline and many islands. However, besides its famous natural, historic and cultural attractions, Croatia has lot of potential in the various combinations of these, with botanic gardens and arboreta being just one part of it and in accordance to the UNESCO’s International Year of Sustainable Tourism (2017). In Croatia 8 botanic gardens and 3 arboreta are officially registered, managed by various institutions, such as Faculties, Public Institutions, Museums and Schools. Most of them are statutorily protected as Monuments of park architecture or/and Monuments of culture. There are 4 University botanic gardens (in Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik) and 2 mountain botanic gardens (the Velebit Mt and the Biokovo Mt) managed by the County Public Institutions ; with 1 Museum (Rijeka) and 1 School (Kaštela) botanic garden recognized as nationally important. Three arboreta – Trsteno, Opeka and Lisičine – managed by Croatian Academy of Arts & Sciences, Public Institution and Forestry Department, respectively, are also subjected to diverse laws of protection at the state level. National botanic gardens and arboreta, together with many other botanical collections in the country, are joined within the Croatian Botanical Society as members of the Section of botanic and school gardens, arboreta and botanical collections. For the first time this season (2017), Croatian botanical gardens step forward to propose joint touristic offers for the foreign market, within the “Croatian Nature & Heritage Tours” programme. What is that Croatian botanic gardens and arboreta have to offer, and what perspective does this potentially sustainable type of touristic offer have in the future, it is yet to be seen.

Croatia, botanical gardens, sustainable tourism

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