Abstract
Optimization of nautical tourism development largely depends on national normative frameworks since the use of maritime property is highly regulated in every country. This paper argues that the normative regulation of nautical tourism should take into consideration the historical relation between the key determinants of economic development. The paper analyzes a 15-year period (2005-2019) with respect to six crucial indicators of nautical tourism development: the number of ports, marinas, berths, employees, coast size (aquatorium), and revenues. Our research found very strong positive relationship between: the number of nautical tourism ports and revenues(r = 0.931); number of marinas and revenues (r = 0.985); number of employees in nautical tourism ports and generated revenues (r = 0.960); number of nautical tourism ports and number of employees (0.987); number of marinas and number of employees (r = 0.965). In addition, an intermediate level of relationship was found between: size of the aquatorium used by nautical tourism ports and income(r = 0.454), and size of the aquatorium and number of employees (r = 0.652). Finally, the paper reports weak relationships between the number of ports and number of berths (r = 0.353); number of berths and number of employees; number of berths and size of aquatorium used (r=0.335). The research results related to size of aquatorium are especially important since the current Croatian regulations based on the system of concessions have a discouraging effect on this aspect of the development of nautical tourism ports.
Highlights
Nautical tourism ports are one of the sub-areas of nautical tourism, which is one of the backbones of the economic development of many coastal destinations
Similar to the case of correlation between aquatorium and number of employees, the low growth in the number of nautical tourism berths shows that the growth in the number of employees was related to other activities in the nautical tourism port
A very strong positive relationship was found between the number of nautical tourism ports and revenues, which means that the higher the number of ports leads to increase in the revenue of nautical tourism ports
Summary
Nautical tourism ports are one of the sub-areas of nautical tourism, which is one of the backbones of the economic development of many coastal destinations. The impact of nautical tourism ports on the development of destinations is especially significant, primarily in smaller and less developed places where a nautical tourism port takes on the role of local leader and has a rapid effect on the development of entrepreneurship, especially the services In this way, there is an accelerated revival of the destination. The basic influence that the State has on the development of nautical tourism ports is legislation, primarily the regulations on nautical tourism ports’ classification and categorization. The dynamics of their change in Croatia has stabilized, and the interval between the two changes to the regulations is 10 years. ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK REGULATING NAUTICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CROATIA
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