The aim of this work is the analysis of abiotic and ecological indicators to investigate environmental sustainability of tourism in Inner Istria, which consists of 24 municipalities and towns. Five quantitative indicators were chosen, respecting the criteria of availability, reliability, predictability, clarity and feasibility. Within the first indicator, "protected natural areas", the greatest share of natural areas under protection was established in the Municipality of Lupoglav. Indicators "overall tourists’ water consumption" and "maximum water consumption in tourism industry" have confirmed the low share of tourists’ consumption of drinking water in all municipalities and towns in Inner Istria. The analysis of the fourth indicator, "the share of tourist accommodation facilities and connection to the sewerage system", showed that ten municipalities and towns have such facilities on their territories. The fifth indicator analyzed "resorts with tourist accommodation facilities and their coverage with recycling containers for selective municipal waste disposal" and showed that a part of the settlements in the twelve municipalities and towns had this kind of containers. All accommodation facilities in the municipality of Grožnjan have recycling containers. Qualitative indicators realized through problemoriented interviews with experts in the Istrian water-company and municipal companies, and field researches have confirmed the quantitative indicators. The conclusion derived from the interviews is that tourism is currently in its initial stages of development that does not disturb the regular water supply and waste disposal. Finally, the results of this study confirmed the hypothesis that Inner Istria is a region for ecologically sustainable tourism whose touristification does not threaten the protected natural area, water resources and water supply, wastewater and municipal waste disposal.
The paper presents the results of a research conducted within the framework of ArchaeoCulTour, a recent project whose main goal was to analyse the potential of valorising archaeological heritage in the Istria County, Croatia, through sustainable tourism. The main aim of the project is to develop a successful and innovative strategy for sustainable cultural tourism growth in Istria as the most developed Croatian tourist region, characterized by an abundance of archaeological sites, which are still not adequately valorised, presented and interpreted. The authors have tested the key hypotheses on a local case studyelaborating potentials for the valorisation of archaeological heritage in the Municipality of Vrsar in Western Istria, which was chosen because it represents a typical coastal tourist destination in Croatia and on the Mediterranean, characterized by mass tourism and a remarkable seasonality. In this paper, the authors present the results of the third stage of the researcha tourist survey conducted during spring and summer 2018. The aim of the research was to analyse visitors's motivations and acitivites related to archaeological tourism in the Vrsar municipality and in the near-by Rovinj, which could be considered a model of sustainable cultural tourism development. The results have confimed the results of the previous two research phases, related to the experts' attitudes and the local community survey, both oriented towards considering the current tourism development trends in the observed municipality and its developement potentials. All key stakeholders agree that the main sustainability issues in the Vrsar municipality, i.e. high seasonality, mass tourism, infrastructure problems, could be resolved through sustainable valorisation of the local cultural and natural resources by creating innovative tourism expriences.
U radu se daje prijedlog istraživačkog teorijskog modela koji može poslužiti kao osnova u geografskom istraživanju odnosa turizma i industrije kao dvije sukobljene ljudske aktivnosti i gospodarske grane. Rad ističe potrebu takvog razmatranju u većim urbanim cjelinama koje su usporedno razvijale turizam i industriju Druge industrijske revolucije tipične za hrvatsko priobalje. Članak, u prvom dijelu, analizira predloženu shemu istraživanja od analize postojeće strukture i opsega, nesuglasja i suglasja ovih dviju grana do mogućnost stvaranja industrijskoturističke regije, dok u drugom iznosi rezultate inicijalnog istraživanja.Ključne riječi: industrija, turizam, elementi i faktori suglasja i nesuglasja, industrijsko turistička regijaThe research gives a proposal of a theoretical research model, and can be the basis of geographical research of the relation between tourism and industry as two opposite human activities and branches of economy. The accent is set on the consideration of their relation in major urban areas, which show a parallel development of tourism and industry of the Second Industrial Revolution, typical for Croatian coastline region. The proposal of the research scheme, from the analysis of the present structure and the quantity, harmony and disharmony of both branches, to the possibility of creating an industrial-tourism region are analyzed in the first part of the work, whereas the results of the initial research are presented in the second part.Key words: industry, tourism, elements and factors of harmony and disharmony, industrial-tourism region Uvod i metodološke napomeneOdnos industrije i turizma na hrvatskoj obali predstavlja bitnu odrednicu razvoja ove dvije djelatnosti. Geografske spoznaje doprinose prostornom uobličavanju ovog odnosa. Osim klasičnog turističko-geografskog poimanja industrijskih regija kao tradicionalno emitivnih turističkih žarišta i turističkih regija kao tradicionalno receptivnih područja, odnos industrije i turizma se promatra neposredno u turističkoj regiji, ali s obzirom na velika prestrukturiranja unutar same industrije i prelaska na čišće i ekološki prihvatljivije tehnologije, i unutar klasičnih industrijskih regija. Svrha je ovog rada izložiti geografski istraživački model (STACHOWIAK, 1965., VRESK, 1997 po kojem bi se trebalo vršiti geografsko istraživanje odnosa ovih dviju djelatnosti na primjerima gdje obostran razvoj "u susjedstvu" mogu uzrokovati različite konfliktne, ali i obostrano korisne procese.
Uvod Fenomen turizma zaokuplja pozornost širokog spektra znanstvene i stručne javnosti zbog svoje složenosti kao heterogenog sustava u kojem se neprestano isprepleću, nadopunjavaju i sukobljavaju prostorne, društveno-ekonomske, političke, kulturne, psihološke, povijesne, administrativne, pravne, organizacijske i druge sastavnice kao dinamički elementi tog sustava. Stalne transformacije tih dinamičkih elemenata u geografskom prostoru podržavaju kontinuiran proces turistifikacije prirodnih, antropogenih, fizionomskih i osjetilnih sastavnica kulturnoga krajolika te tako neposredno utječu na neprekidnu mijenu turističkih mjesta i regija. Sukladno tome, turizam je "…kao značajna civilizacijska stečevina i najdinamičnija socioekonomska činjenica suvremenog i razvijenog svijeta…" (Jadrešić, 2001, 78) postao predmet interesa svih znanstvenih područja bez obzira na različite, često suprotstavljene teorijsko-koncepcijske i metodološke pristupe. No unatoč sveprisutnome znanstvenoistraživačkom interesu fenomen turizma zbog svoje intenzivne i teško predvidljive pojavnosti te smjera razvoja u geografskom prostoru, predstavlja značajan metodološki izazov u istraživa
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