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challenges of tourism development in protected areas of croatia and slovenia
tion between the level of tourism development and changes in the level of
economic activity and its structure. The relation between tourism devel-
opment and economic activity shows certain profiling only when a region
reaches higher level of tourism development that starts to dominate among
economic activities.
Social pressure of tourism
Besides contributing to socio-economic development, tourism generates a
certain pressure on the area and the community in which takes place. This
section aims to evaluate the social pressure of tourism on Mljet using the
tourism function index and tourism intensity.
Near beginning of the investigated period (in 1966), the tourism inten-
sity score of 81.7 on Mljet could not be considered to be pressure at all; fur-
thermore, it represented a desirable alternative to the dominant agriculture
(Tab. 7). Contemporary southern Dalmatia records considerable pressure
of tourism (353.7), generated mostly by the Dubrovnik Littoral, and accom-
panied by a few small areas with high pressure (Mljet National Park, the
bearer of tourism on the island, reached 420.7 arrivals per 100 inhabitants)
(FBS, 1965; 1972; RBS, 1967).
Pressure of tourism in the late 1960s and in the 1970s gradually in-
creased along with the opening of new accommodation units (particular-
ly a hotel in Pomena) and growth of tourism, and reached 221.4 arrivals
and 68.2 beds per 100 inhabitants in 1976 (Tab. 7). Tourism was still limit-
ed to the Park, which had one hotel, one camp, and a few accommodation
units in private households generating very high pressure (1,018.8 arrivals
and 300.6 beds per 100 inhabitants). Outside the Park, only Sobra record-
ed modest tourism development. However, it is important to note that the
island’s small population is partially responsible for the high pressure of
tourism in the whole period, as it has to handle a relatively large tourism
supply and demand.
The island reached peak pressure in 1986 with 793.3 arrivals and 89.7
beds per 100 inhabitants, which was not much different from the regional
average (846.6 and 61.1, respectively) (RBS, 1982; 1987; CBS, 1994). However,
Mljet National Park recorded one of the highest pressures in southern
Dalmatia (3,422.9 arrivals and 322.0 beds per 100 inhabitants), which was
heavily contributed to by day-trippers visitors from Pelješac, Korčula, and
Dubrovnik.
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tion between the level of tourism development and changes in the level of
economic activity and its structure. The relation between tourism devel-
opment and economic activity shows certain profiling only when a region
reaches higher level of tourism development that starts to dominate among
economic activities.
Social pressure of tourism
Besides contributing to socio-economic development, tourism generates a
certain pressure on the area and the community in which takes place. This
section aims to evaluate the social pressure of tourism on Mljet using the
tourism function index and tourism intensity.
Near beginning of the investigated period (in 1966), the tourism inten-
sity score of 81.7 on Mljet could not be considered to be pressure at all; fur-
thermore, it represented a desirable alternative to the dominant agriculture
(Tab. 7). Contemporary southern Dalmatia records considerable pressure
of tourism (353.7), generated mostly by the Dubrovnik Littoral, and accom-
panied by a few small areas with high pressure (Mljet National Park, the
bearer of tourism on the island, reached 420.7 arrivals per 100 inhabitants)
(FBS, 1965; 1972; RBS, 1967).
Pressure of tourism in the late 1960s and in the 1970s gradually in-
creased along with the opening of new accommodation units (particular-
ly a hotel in Pomena) and growth of tourism, and reached 221.4 arrivals
and 68.2 beds per 100 inhabitants in 1976 (Tab. 7). Tourism was still limit-
ed to the Park, which had one hotel, one camp, and a few accommodation
units in private households generating very high pressure (1,018.8 arrivals
and 300.6 beds per 100 inhabitants). Outside the Park, only Sobra record-
ed modest tourism development. However, it is important to note that the
island’s small population is partially responsible for the high pressure of
tourism in the whole period, as it has to handle a relatively large tourism
supply and demand.
The island reached peak pressure in 1986 with 793.3 arrivals and 89.7
beds per 100 inhabitants, which was not much different from the regional
average (846.6 and 61.1, respectively) (RBS, 1982; 1987; CBS, 1994). However,
Mljet National Park recorded one of the highest pressures in southern
Dalmatia (3,422.9 arrivals and 322.0 beds per 100 inhabitants), which was
heavily contributed to by day-trippers visitors from Pelješac, Korčula, and
Dubrovnik.
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