IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/avo/emipdu/v30y2021i2p439-456.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sustainable Sport Tourism As A Potential For The Development Of Continental Croatia

Author

Listed:
  • Domagoj Cep

    (Fund for financing the decommissioning of the Krško Nuclear Power Plant)

  • Vanja Krajinovic

    (University of Zagreb)

Abstract

Development of sport tourism in contemporary environment is strongly connected to the concept of sustainability. Starting point of such attempts can be traced to high dependence of sport tourism upon quality natural resources. For that reason, destinations in rural areas tend to have high potential for developing sport tourism, especially if they are in initial stages of development. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse potentials of developing sport tourism of continental Croatia in the context of sustainability. This region is insufficiently valorised in the context of tourism development and therefore it is necessary to determine products which would initiate more intensive development of this area. For the purpose of the paper primary research was conducted with the aim to examine motivation of visitors for visiting this area. Furthermore, the aim was to determine the perception of importance of sustainable development of sport tourism in continental Croatia. Research results indicate high level of tourists' awareness about the importance of this concept and the necessity of more intensive development of sport tourism and sport activities within this region.

Suggested Citation

  • Domagoj Cep & Vanja Krajinovic, 2021. "Sustainable Sport Tourism As A Potential For The Development Of Continental Croatia," Economic Thought and Practice, Department of Economics and Business, University of Dubrovnik, vol. 30(2), pages 439-456, december.
    • Handle: RePEc:avo:emipdu:v:30:y:2021:i:2:p:439-456
    DOI: 10.17818/EMIP/2021/2.6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/387836
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.17818/EMIP/2021/2.6?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    sport tourism; sustainable tourism development; destination development; destination stakeholders; continental Croatia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • Z32 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics - - - Tourism and Development

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:avo:emipdu:v:30:y:2021:i:2:p:439-456. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nebojsa Stojcic (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/oedubhr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.