“…Furthermore, several stakeholders had a considerable increase in the range of activities, depending on the function of the individual stakeholder in the value chain of supplied services and products, business specifi city, and development perspective in the port of Split. However, the attitudes of business stakeholders are mostly skeptical because, according to the criteria of [18], they cite a modest increase in income and the creation of a minimum number of new jobs. They are also suspicious about the perception of the local population towards the cruise tourism in Split, thus expressing distrust of their partners, which according to [11], disables the main precondition for joint action.…”