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Space as a resource is intensively used both by the tourism and the local community. Therefore the state of the tourism development must be measured trough time, along with attitudes of local population, to determine the impacts and the pressure that can continues tourism development cause. In the 1990s, tourism become the motor of the development of Croatia, which has resulted in continues increase of the number of tourist beds. On the other hand population of the Croatia is experiencing the demographic extinction. To explain pressures of the tourism development on the decreasing community, tourism function index was used in comparison with the research of the attitudes of local population considering tourism impacts. The main objective of this paper is to determine the correlation between the increase in the number of tourists and changes in the life of local population, which arises from the tourism activities in destinations, as well as from the ratio of the number of residents and tourists.The attitudes analysis has shown high level of the negative impacts of tourism in seven Adriatic counties, while in continental parts of Croatia tourism is seen as an activity with mostly positive effects. Still tourism has generally positive impact on the destination and is seen as desirable activity, even in areas with relatively high tourism function index. Accordingly, to enhance the positive impacts it is essential to diminish extremely big differences in tourism development between too developed coastal areas and mainly neglected continental part of the country and to reduce seasonality of tourism, trough sustainable management and diversification of tourism offer in accordance with spatial disparities.

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Izraženi prostorni identitet lokalne zajednice znači i veću povezanost i vrijednost pojedinih kulturnih i prirodnih resursa te nematerijalne baštine, koji se tako, pravilnim upravljanjem i ulaganjima, mogu transformirati u značajnu turističku atrakciju. Baština odražava stabilnost razvoja, kontinuiranu naseljenost i tradiciju kulturnoga krajobraza i kulture života te je stoga važan dio tradicijskog identiteta. Kulturna baština resurs je koji prepoznaju i turisti, pa može stvoriti vezu između identiteta i percepcije rezidenata i turista. Stoga je prostorni identitet jedan od najvažnijih nematerijalnih resursa, koji uz pravilnu prezentaciju i promociju ima značajan potencijal u izgradnji jedinstvenih turističkih proizvoda. Cilj istraživanja je utvrđivanje izraženosti identifi kacije ispitanika s identitetom regije te uspostavljanje mogućih veza i utjecaja regionalnog identiteta na održivi razvoj turizma na primjeru Bjelovara i Čakovca.

With the attempt to "reconcile" protection and tourism activities, spatial planning has a great importance in sustainable planning and management of Nature Protected Areas (NPAs). The spatial dimension of sustainability involves numerous processes and links among different purposes of lands, ecosystems, and biotopes at different levels through time, therefore, it is necessary to include all sciences and professions, whose common goal is the sustainability of the area, in the spatial planning process. This paper argues that there is a critical need for an interdisciplinary approach in spatial planning, which could improve the quality of planning of national parks and all other sensitive nature areas. Such approach should strive to the sustainability of protected nature destinations with the integration of knowledge. In Croatia, national park planning is still mostly done without comprehensive and integrated involvement of a wide range of science and profession, which ultimately significantly reduces the quality of the plans, as well as may have potentially negative effects on the future development.