Srećko Favro

The Evaluation of the present anchorage condition and the development tendency in Zadar County

As result of consistently more rigorous and demanding regulations on protection of marine environment and coastal landscape, as well as following the requirements for integral management of coastal area and sustainable development of nautical tourism, any new intervention in the highly sensitive littoral area is subject to strict assessments. Accordingly, the development of new infrastructure objects of nautical tourism in is frequently questioned. Due to the continual increase of nautical vessels that sail and permanently or temporarily stay at the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, the reception capacity of nautical ports is limited and consequently navigators, especially those with bigger vessels, deploy anchorages as their destination points. Respecting the current reality and the necessity to develop nautical tourism as an important economic function in Croatia, this paper offers a systematic analysis of the anchoring issue.The authors research the method and need for anchoring on free and institutional anchorages and evaluate the role of anchorages in the economy. The aim of the paper is to analyze the current situation based on the example of the Zadar County, especially the spatial-geographical conditions for the development of anchorages in the Zadar County. The goal of the paper is to establish the interdependence between the institutional anchoring and development of nautical tourism in the Zadar County.

Spatial and environmental preconditions for the establishment of nautical tourism ports

This paper analyses the spatial and environmental characteristics of the Croatian Adriatic from the aspect of nautical tourism development. Analysis of the characteristics important for nautical tourism development will deal with the most attractive locations on the Croatian Adriatic, and it will recommend and suggest further development of all the elements of nautical tourism together with its complementary activities – nautical economy. The trends observed in nautical tourism in the more developed Mediterranean tourist countries may be expected or are already present in Croatia as well. That experience facilitates the design of the development direction for Croatia. Namely, geographical, historical and the surrounding specific features of the Croatian coast, the mentality of the local inhabitants, the level of economic development which includes the development of communal, traffic and social infrastructure, etc., imposes to the planners certain limitations which were not present in those countries, or were not of the same shape and extent. The authors analyse spatial possibilities in the function of nautical tourism development. They analyse legal features and suggest solutions that support development of nautical tourism that respects the area and its acceptance and other possibilities.

Social and economic forms of beach managing in Croatia

Beaches are natural resources that significantly enrich the tourist offer of countries gifted by nature near the sea. Apart from economic significance, beaches also have recreational importance, and are, therefore, vulnerable to various adverse influences that result from natural changes or manmade activities. Beach management is mainly entrusted to authorities and in Croatia to public administration. As beaches are public good, they may be subject to concessions and concession approvals. Beach management in Croatia is defined by numerous institutional provisions with the aim to protect beaches and their sustainable use. The authors in this paper explain general knowledge on beaches, integrated beach management and models of beach management in Croatia. They analyze the existing system of beach management, and propose improvements that are socially responsible and economically efficient. Proposed improvements are applicable to other countries that face problems related to public administration and its management of public good, i.e. beaches.

System concept of experience in nautical tourism

The objective of this paper is to explain how to create an experienced based concept to attract new tourists and to create at least a memorable experience with these consumes and to analyze the importance of animators in tailoring experiences in destinations. In such, the role of animators in nautical tourism is vital for creating memorable experiences desired and sought by tourists. The local population should have a possibility of being educated about local differences and tourist workers should be additionally educated. The result would be the degree of professional development needed so the tourist workers could enrich the tourist product of a nautical destination, and also gaining on the interpretation quality. New ways of communication are needed to create longlasting commitments with individuals and target groups. In a tourist world where people are more and more driven by self expressional values instead of survival values, we need an additional way of engineering. We need Imagineering – engineering for imagination, to realize the challenges of the experience economy. Imagineering is about managing the relationship with the costumer, based on an experiential system concept that affect ‘fans’ in the heart, that will be translated in an experiential world in all contact moments with the guest. In short it’s about using experiences, which can reach, touch, affect and fascinate the guest in marinas and small ports permanently. Imagineering has three elements: story, vision, and guidance. In this paper Imagineering will be presented as a powerful solution for nautical tourist destinations to create long-lasting emotional bond with individual guests.

Proposal of socio-economic model of development of small, periodically inhabited and uninhabited Croatian islands

Croatia is a country with more than a thousand islands, a small number of which are inhabited and provides for a good livelihood throughout the year. Some of the islands are occasionally inhabited, while others are uninhabited and have no or poor traffic links. The authors of this paper analyse the survey “Small, occasionally inhabited and uninhabited island and islets” (2007) carried out by the Hydrographic Institute of Croatia. The authors examine opportunities for the balanced revival of the islands, taking into consideration the fact that there will always be differences in their prospects and their level of development. Evidently, islands closer to the mainland have an advantage over the more distant islands, and the occasionally inhabited islands have an advantage over the uninhabited ones. The prospects of remote islands are inversely proportional to their distance from the mainland, unless an island possesses some special advantages or enjoys a special status. By grouping islands according to their population density, it is evident how much they differ by their characteristics. That is why the development of each island should be considered individually, and potential development scenarios should be constructed separately. The basic guidelines are enabling and constraining factors of development, including market conditions and requirements, the force of their mutual influence, as well as the potential development of activities within an Adriatic-based orientation. The authors propose measures for the revitalization of occasionally inhabited and uninhabited islands. They highlight opportunities for further development, based especially on developing forms of special-interest tourism, through a global approach to . Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia , Croatia Island Sustainability II 143 www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3541 (on-line) WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, Vol 166,

Tourism valorisation of lighthouses on Croatian islands and along the coast

On nowadays demanding tourism market Croatia wants to present itself not just as a country of classical “3S (sea, sun and sand)” tourism offer but also as a destination with great potential for the development of a more complex tourism product that would carry a development of high-quality sustainable tourism intended for an individual, more demanding, more educated, well-off and ecologically conscious tourist. “Robinson tourism”, in which tourists search isolation and peace in intact environment, is becoming a very popular type of tourism in the world. Considering stressful living conditions in ecologically more polluted cities with a low life quality, the above mentioned is not a surprise. In order to enrich island and coastal tourism offer in the early 2000 a process of tourism valorisation of lighthouses began mostly on secluded locations of Croatian islands and along the coast. Due to the automation of light-mechanisms on numerous Croatian lighthouses there are less and less lighthouse keepers that opened the possibility to renovate apartments for tourists where once a lighthouse keeper and his family lived. For lighthouse maintenance and its tourism conversion Plovput Ltd. from Split is in charge. The company started this rent a lighthouse project that doesn’t just bring profit but it also provides funds for reconstruction of these cultural heritage monuments built in the 19th century and the first part of 20th century. Today, due to this project 14 lighthouses have been integrated into this tourism offer. The main aim of this research is to define characteristics of Croatian lighthouses accommodation offer as well as main features of the structure and volume of a tourism flow in 2008.