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transport accessibility as a factor of tourist flow ...
Fig. 1 National parks and nature parks in the Republic of Croatia
(4,320.48 km2 in total) together encompass 5,300.11 km2, i.e. 70.41 % of the
entire area of all protected areas in Croatia, and in 2018 they were visited
by 4,444,063 visitors (Ministry of Environment and Energy of the Republic
of Croatia, 2019).
The increasing transport accessibility of national parks and nature
parks directly and indirectly impacts their sustainable development. For
example, one of the most visible direct negative impacts of increased trans-
port accessibility is the construction of transport infrastructure, which ir-
reversibly changes the natural environment, and for which there are in-
creasing spatial demands (Daigle and Zimmermann, 2004; Opačić et al.,
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Fig. 1 National parks and nature parks in the Republic of Croatia
(4,320.48 km2 in total) together encompass 5,300.11 km2, i.e. 70.41 % of the
entire area of all protected areas in Croatia, and in 2018 they were visited
by 4,444,063 visitors (Ministry of Environment and Energy of the Republic
of Croatia, 2019).
The increasing transport accessibility of national parks and nature
parks directly and indirectly impacts their sustainable development. For
example, one of the most visible direct negative impacts of increased trans-
port accessibility is the construction of transport infrastructure, which ir-
reversibly changes the natural environment, and for which there are in-
creasing spatial demands (Daigle and Zimmermann, 2004; Opačić et al.,
29
