Naslov
Tourism in Croatia between the Two World Wars: the Dubrovnik District Case

Autori
Benić Penava, Marija

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

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts 10th CIRCLE International Conference Organised by Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo / Vignali, Gianpaolo - : Accent Press, 2013

ISBN
978-0-9562471-8-6

Skup
10th CIRCLE International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research

Mjesto i datum
Viana do Castelo, Portugal, 03.04.2013. - 06.04.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
tourism; Dubrovnik district; Croatia; economy.

Sažetak
By exploring the archive records and the relevant literature from a historical perspective, this paper perceives the development of tourism in Croatia in the Interbellum. With the loss of the emissive Austro-Hungarian market after 1918 and within the frame of the smaller and poorer market of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, service industries in the Dubrovnik district register a substantial progress. Even though it is, in terms of traffic, rather detached from its mainland, Dubrovnik reached second place in tourist accommodation with the structure of its tourists in the analysed period consisting predominantly of foreigners. As opposed to previous, mostly health-related motives for organised groups of visitors to the southernmost part of the underdeveloped Austro-Hungarian county of Dalmatia, in the monarchy of Yugoslavia Dubrovnik established an elite travel status. The touristic achievements of Dubrovnik today – as one of the leading tourist destinations – emerge from its wise management in the Interbellum and the tradition of investing in the service sector has continued from the times of the Republic of Dubrovnik. Because service industries were the driving force in the economic development of the traffic isolated Croatian South, it proved to be an advantage in the times of the world economic crises which didn’t particularly hit the Dubrovnik district while at the same time striking the economy of Croatia tremendously. Systematic and scientific approach to tourism enabled the founding of Dubrovnik’s archive on tourism (1938), the only one in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and among leading similar European institutions, what, among other things, proved that long-term tourism pondering was beneficial.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Povijest

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