Naslov
Is There Room For Eco Golf Resorts In The Concept Of Sustainable Development Of Tourism In Croatia?

Autori
Racz, Aleksandar ; Badurina, Antonio

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
XIV International > Scientific Conference on Service sector INSCOSES 2018 / - Ohrid : XIV International > Scientific Conference on Service sector INSCOSES 2018, 2018, 49-49

ISBN
978-608-4676-355

Skup
14th International Scientific Conference on Service sector (INSCOSES 2018)

Mjesto i datum
Ohrid, Sjeverna Makedonija, 14.09.2018. - 15.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
management of sustainable development of tourism, golf tourism, eco resort, environment pollution NATURA 2000

Sažetak
Introduction: The concept for sustainable development of tourism in Croatia for the period until the year 2020 suggests the establishment of a favourable relationship between economy, ecology and tourism development. Although past experiences in the world undoubtedly show that the development wich is exclusively aimed towards increasing usage of already existing or building new capacities, has led to a limited increase of economic profitability, but only in the short term. Croatia has predicted to connect strategic development to building more than a dozen eco and mega golf resorts on the coast of Adriatic in order to increase accommodation capacities and overcome seasonality and to greatly increase income. The goal of this work is to show, on the analyses (case study) of building an eco golf resort on the island of Cres, that aiming national strategic development of tourism towards building golf resorts can lead to long term unsustainability of the concept of sustainable tourism development, and at the cost of permanently damaging the environment. Methods: in this work, the method of terrain examination is used, as well as critical analyses of the available secondary sources which were subdued to the methods of induction and deduction, analyses and synthesis. Results: Building an eco golf resort on the island of Cres has been planned on the area of 320 ha with an investment going above 100 million euros, and is planned against the will of the local eco community and opposed to serious objections of the expert public based on the justified fear of “apartmanisation” and building, as it has already been seen in Spain and Greece. Although the whole complex is called “eco”, the project may lead to the devastation of landscape, loss of biodiversity, with the enormous consumption of water and energy for irrigation, possible exhaustion of underground drinking water reserves and finally, bioaccumulation of chemical fertilizers and herbicides. Conclusion: Qualitative principles of development should be considered equivalent to the quantitative ones, and any aberration most seriously threatens long term development of tourism economy of Croatia as well as sustainable development in the whole. Environmentalists justifiably warn that the “eco” in the syntagm “eco resort” can easily mean economic or ecocide, and not necessarily ecological.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita, Ekonomija

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