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SAŽETAK: Razvoj turizma u gradovima posljednjih godina sve više dovodi do negativnih ekoloških, socio-kulturnih i ekonomskih učinaka. Gradovi u Hrvatskoj suočeni su s istim problemima pa stoga svoj turistički razvoj moraju planirati prema načelima koncepta održivog razvoja kako bi smanjili negativni utjecaj turizma. Cilj ovog rada je utvrditi pretpostavke uspješne implementacije koncepta održivog razvoja turizma u hrvatskim urbanim destinacijama. U tu svrhu provedeno je kvalitativno istraživanje na dionicima osam urbanih destinacija Republike Hrvatske. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da implementacija koncepta ovisi o različitim čimbenicima, poput strateškog planiranja razvoja, razvijenog sustava za mjerenje i praćenje razvoja, razvijenog participativnog odnosa dionika u upravljanju destinacijom, poticajnog institucionalnog okruženja i proaktivnoj lokalnoj upravi, angažiranosti lokalnog stanovništva te educiranosti dionika o upravljanju i načelima održivog razvoja.KLJUČNE RIJEČI: održivi razvoj turizma, urbane destinacije, Republika Hrvatska ABSTRACT: Urban tourism development has been leading increasingly to negative ecological, socio-cultural and economic effects over the recent years. Croatia's cities in are facing the same problems, and hence they have to plan their tourism development according to the principles of the concept of sustainable development aiming to reduce the negative effects of tourism. The objective of this paper is to identify the assumptions of successful implementation of the concept of sustainable tourism development in Croatian urban destinations. For this purpose, a qualitative survey was carried out in eight urban destinations in Croatia. The research results show that the implementation of the concept depends on various factors, such as strategic development planning, developed system for measuring and monitoring development, developed participatory stakeholder relationship in destination management, stimulating institutional environment and proactive local governance, engagement of local population, and education of stakeholders on management and the principles of sustainable development.

Tourism latterly experiences significant changes and growth in all segments. Market demands and sophisticated tastes have led to necessity of providing diversified supply adapting individually to each tourist. In this process specific interests tourism are developing, which according to their characteristics attract and satisfy different profiles of tourists. Specificity of tourism offer and consequently tourism demand reflect in youth tourism, segmented primarily by age, but certainly by specific stylelife and way of travelling. This paper presents characteristics and trends of youth tourism in the world, focusing the current situation in Croatia, where a survey was conducted on youths, as potential participants of youth tourism. Results illustrate habits of Croatian youths as tourists, their needs, aspirations and possibilities to participate worldwide trends of youth tourism.

In a digital environment that is now present in tourism and tourist transport, information and reservation systems are the basis for the realization of businesses. Besides reducing operating costs and 24-hour service availability, an additional benefit can be seen in dynamic pricing of services. Airlines first noticed the advantages of information-communication technologies (ICTs) and developed a whole new concept of business in the form of low-cost airlines (LCAs).LCA tourists have to use information technologies in order to use LCA services, therefore it is expected that the Internet usage of low-cost airline tourists significantly differs from the Internet usage of average tourists.Over the last several years Zadar County has strongly encouraged low-cost airlines to link its airport with as many European destinations as possible, which enabled the connection with remote outbound markets and the increase of city breaks tourism. This paper will show the results of a research which was conducted on a sample of 900 low-cost airline (LCA) tourists and 1697 average tourists who stayed in Zadar County. Different methods of descriptive statistics were used in order to determine and compare the level of usage of information technologies of these two types of tourists.I.

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