Abstract
With rapid industrialization, the current social system is facing a variety of crises that deplete resources, pollute the environment and generate large amounts of waste. Excessive destinations dependence on tourism, as a primary economic activity, make them more vulnerable to global crisis situations and their negative effects. The tourism industry is also sensitive to external disasters and the deterioration of the tourism product, and is becoming more exposed to the crisis, which leads to a growing interest in contingency planning. Economic crisis, the crisis in the world shipping economy and political instability represent some of the crisis situations that developed and developing countries are struggling with. The goal of the research is literature review to determine which crisis situations exist in nautical tourism, which ones occur most often and what is the cause of them. Also, by analyzing the content of selected articles, the aim is to present possible solutions to such situations, applying to a greater extent to the principles of sustainable development. This paper analyzes the scientific literature on the crisis situations and their negative effects on nautical tourism, as relatively new multidisciplinary tourism activity. Contrary to the long history of piracy, terrorist attacks, as a one type of crisis situations that occur in the maritime industry are rare. However, high-energy consumption, high water pollution and increased port production, consequently negatively affect the ecological environment. Pollution created by vessels, in addition to disrupting the natural ecological balance, also encourages climate change, therefore, ecological restoration measures can help improve the quality of the environment on land and in water.
Highlights
Nautical tourism is a multidisciplinary tourist activity, which means that it is engaged in maritime science, geology, geography, sociology, pedagogy, but primarily economics
Some of the analyzed studies proposed a framework and models, with the inclusion of new concepts or theories from other disciplines (Krieger et al, 2016). When it comes to data analysis, the authors used the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), the standard gravitational model and other econometric analyzes
From all of the above, there is no common method used when it comes to crisis research and crisis management in nautical tourism
Summary
Nautical tourism is a multidisciplinary tourist activity, which means that it is engaged in maritime science, geology, geography, sociology, pedagogy, but primarily economics. Changes in its structure, prompted by a number of, primarily market and economic reasons, have influenced the development of smaller markets and the formation of the new ones. Socio-economic and technical factors, including population mobility, vulnerability to natural disasters and other effects of climate change, national policies and regulations, and international instruments, have influenced the provision of transport services, which is reflected in nautical tourism. Additional factors include proper vessel management and maintenance, route profitability, existing oil supply (quantity and quality), infrastructure level, technical capacity, proximity to maintenance facilities, as well as mandatory safety and security services. Maritime transport infrastructure, which includes nautical tourism ports, supports the maritime transport system and is the physical basis for providing all necessary services for the functions of the system. In addition to the propulsive development of nautical tourism, arises the question how to avoid crisis situations and effectively implement environmental pollution control and evaluation of green development, while the size and business performance continue to grow rapidly? As one example, the International Port Community (Chengying et al, 2020) has proposed the concept of a green port
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