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Tourism, Population Dynamics and Social Infrastructure in Croatian Major Coastal Cities

Since the beginning of 2010s there as been a rapid growth of private accommodation in the major cities of Croatian region of Dalmatia. This process is starting to reshape the functional logic of the cities, pushing population from the centres to the periphery, while most of the social sector remains in the central area. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the process of physical expansion of the cities in the last 100 years is slowing down, but there is a significant reshaping of their inner functional logic. Process of growth was uniform: from relatively small centralized cities to large expansion during socialist times to depopulation of centres because of tourism. The dynamic of change in three Dalmatian cities, Split, Zadar and Dubrovnik, will be presented. First, a historical overview of spatial development will be demonstrated. Secondly, electoral register and census data will be used to show the population movement within these cities. Thirdly, registered private accommodation registered since 2010 at booking.com website will be analysed using GIS for spatiotemporal analysis and mapping and overlapped with the previous two sets of data. The hypothesis of the paper is that although there is a shift in population because of tourism, this shift was not followed by public services, which results in a threefold outcome. First type of city area involves depopulating centre with majority of public services and increase in tourism. Second type (semi-periphery) is the area of increase in both population and tourism, but services tend to become more privatized. Third type (periphery) does not include significant share of tourism and has the lowest rate of any services, private or public, although it has a population growth. In conclusion, tourism does not develop all parts of these cities equally and the parts that were already excluded from services and economic flows (periphery) tend to be excluded from tourist activity as well.

Tourism, Population dynamics, Coastal areas, Croatia

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