Abstract
Private accommodation capacities are a growing segment of the lodging industry in Croatia. In private accommodation capacities 2,684 million tourists were registered in 2010, there were 19,4 million overnight stays, which makes 25% of total arrivals and 34% of total overnights. Although studies have been made on economic impact of tourism on a destination (at the national level), the issues of the impact of private accommodation haven't been given due attention. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to estimate the importance of private accommodation in development of tourist destination on regional level through consumption of tourists accommodated in private capacities, as well as to confirm that tourism receipts realised in private capacities have a positive impact on regional economic development.
Highlights
After a period of stagnation in tourism and downfall in international arrivals and revenue from tourism, caused by the global financial crisis and economic recession, the overall results for the year 2010 were positive
Worldwide tourism contributes to GDP some 5% and the contribution ranges from 2% in the countries where tourism does not represent a dominant development sector to over 10% in the countries where tourism plays the leading part in tourism development (UNWTO Tourism Highlights, 2011 Edition)
Tourists staying in private accommodation mostly stayed between one and seven days (45.4%) of respondents stayed in the destination between one and three days, 31.9% between four and seven days), but there was a high percentage of those who stayed in the destination between eight and 11 days (16%)
Summary
After a period of stagnation in tourism and downfall in international arrivals and revenue from tourism, caused by the global financial crisis and economic recession, the overall results for the year 2010 were positive. International tourist arrivals in 2010 reached 940 million having grown by 6.6% percent over the previous year, whileas the revenue from tourism boosted and topped by 69 billion the revenue from the previous year which was 851 billion US dollars (UNWTO Tourism Highlights, 2011 Edition). In Croatia tourism plays a vital role, both from the local and global perspective. It is one of the fastest growing sectors in economy and, having in mind it’s impact on other economies, it is the vital instrument in development. Total revenue from tourism in Croatia in 2010 reached € 6.236,8 million, representing 13.5% of the total GDP (www.mint.hr visited on 27.07.2011 according to data from Croatian National Bank and National Bureau of Statistics). Should we take into consideration the indirect multiplicative effect of tourism, the total revenue from tourism is significantly larger (Pavlić et al, 2010)
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