Marinela Krstinic Nizic

University of Rijeka · Department of Economics

Measuring host communities' perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development has been increasingly common since the mid-1970s. The greater the growth of the tourism industry worldwide, the more relevant it has become to assess the impact of tourism activity on the local residents. In this paper we present the results of a study carried out in...

Purpose - To harmonize diverse aspects of development, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development outlined three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. The goals of the 2030 Agenda cover a wide range of different development issues in which the principles of sustainabi...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to empirically examine residents’ perceptions of waste sorting and to research whether residents’ behavior regarding waste sorting has an impact on the sustainable development of a tourist destination. Design – A questionnaire with four constructs was designed: attitudes towards waste sorting, perceived behavioral...

Purpose – Developed urban destinations face problems such as uneven distribution of infrastructure, environmental degradation and pollution, increased energy demands, uneven distribution of water and food, lack of basic sanitation, etc. Scientists and experts are recognizing increasing problems and pressures related to urban tourism infrastructure...

Purpose – In the context of tourism, which is strongly focused on service delivery and a direct relationship with guests, employees can play a key role in implementing sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of students, i.e. Generation Z (1995-2002), as new employees entering the labor market and their role in the...

Purpose-Developed urban destinations face problems such as uneven distribution of infrastructure, environmental degradation and pollution, increased energy demands, uneven distribution of water and food, lack of basic sanitation, etc. Scientists and experts are recognizing increasing problems and pressures related to urban tourism infrastructure (t...

Waste can be observed as an ecological problem, but it can also be approached as a resource used to manufacture new goods. The European Union has set high goals in waste management in its legal framework. The Republic of Croatia, as a member of the EU, will have to respect the set requirements. The main aim of this paper is to analyse waste managem...

The main role of local development policy is to create a favorable business environment and new jobs, thus contributing to economic development. Creating a positive business environment to act as a pull factor for new businesses is of great importance, because entrepreneurship conduces to the rise in the supply of goods and to an increase in citize...

In the context of sustainable development, energy consumption reduction and energy efficiency improvement are recognized as global priorities. International tourist arrivals are increasing year by year, and tourism is recording increases in energy consumption. However, tourism needs to recognize its role in sustainable development, and make a signi...

Purpose: Over the last decades, tourism has experienced continued growth, and its impact on economic activity can be observed through its effects on the balance of payments and the labour market, as well as connections with other economic activities. According to the ITB report (2016), urban tourism recorded the largest increase, noting that touris...

Circular economy is a developmental concept promoted by the European Union and applied in practice by its member countries. When looking at the circular economy process, it is most commonly observed from the industry's point of view and its related processes. Tourism is less frequently observed, but in recent years, the circular economy application...

Purpose – The impact of tourism is an ongoing research interest among scholars as it is directly related to the tourism development process. Residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts can indicate development guidelines if planners pay attention to them. Design – We examine residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their support for sustainable...

Research suggests that between 20–30% of consumers self-identify as having some form of food allergy or sensitivity and demand for allergy-safe foods is growing. European Union regulations require restaurants to inform diners of the presence of 14 primary food allergens. The method of disclosure, however, is left to the discretion of the restaurant...

Energy and environmental issues are nowadays becoming more prominent, and business subjects in tourism should dedicate more effort to energy management. This can lead to a reduction in energy-related expenses, and it shows social responsibility and concern for the environment. In order to determine the informedness of managers in tourism concerning...

Purpose-At a time of exceptionally fast technological advancement, smart cities have become necessary for the better management of existing resources in a tourist destination. The aim of this paper is to investigate if the smart city concept has been recognized in micro destinations in the Kvarner region for the purpose of sustainability and raisin...

The journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, IF 2.592) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Energy Sustainability and Tourism". For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Energy_tourism The submission deadline is 31 May 2020. You may send your man...

The need has arisen to implement a circular economic model that enables economic growth and prosperity in accordance with environmental protection and sustainable development because of the current unsustainable linear means of production in the economy. The aim of this paper is to determine the application of the circular economy concept in member...

The need has arisen to implement a circular economic model that enables economic growth and prosperity in accordance with environmental protection and sustainable development because of the current unsustainable linear means of production in the economy. The aim of this paper is to determine the application of the circular economy concept in member...

U novije vrijeme koncept kružnog gospodarstva je veoma interesantan i za istraživače i za praktičare iz razloga što on predstavlja operacionalizaciju koja ima za cilj implementaciju održivog razvoja u sam poslovni proces. Kada se spominje postizanje održivog ekonomskog razvoja podrazumijeva se i uvođenje kružnog gospodarstva koje znači odgovorno go...

Among the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are cities that provide social and economic progress for their inhabitants. Urban management and development face many challenges in the continuous creation of new jobs and prosperity without harming the environment and resources. Most cities in Croatia, especially in the coastal areas,...

Due to the awareness of the ever growing importance of sustainability for achieving a better future, the concept of sustainable development has been cited in most strategic documents at the international, national, regional, and local level. However, the very implementation of sustainable development often faces obstacles that slow down the entire...

In Croatia, tourism is one of the most important economic activities, accounting for 2.1% of total tourist flows in the European Union and 18% of the total Croatian gross domestic product. Economic development and tourism flows are influenced by the increasing intensity of climate change, leading to a need to adapt to new business conditions to min...

According to the European Agenda for Culture, cultural and creative industries can contribute towards the transformation of the economy; they can become a tool for promoting the sustainable development of European Union cities. Many cities and regions possess huge potential for local and regional development due to the spill-over effects on the bro...

The economic structure of each country, including Croatia, is subject to constant changes. This is particularly visible in analyzing national income, productivity, labor costs or employment. In the last two decades, the interest in regional and local economic development has been increasingly growing. The increase in the interest for regional devel...

In Croatia, tourism is one of the most important economic activities, accounting for 2.1% of total tourist flows in the European Union and 18% of the total Croatian gross domestic product. Economic development and tourism flows are influenced by the increasing intensity of climate change, leading to a need to adapt to new business conditions to min...

Today tourism destinations faced with extremely intense competitive environment on the tourism market seek to enhance their competitive advantages through inter-destination collaboration. Especially mature tourism destinations coping with the challenges of their product repositioning acknowledge benefits of such collaborative networking due to its...

To position the tourism offering of the Municipality of Lovran, it must be adjusted to the modern needs of tourists. In this, a key role belongs to designing, implementing and sustaining an experience system as part of the destination’s integrated tourism product. Lovran as a tourist destination can become distinctive only to the extent to which it...

Purpose – Green business awareness has been steadily increasing among employers and guests, and a large number of green certificates for hotels are being developed around the world. However, Croatia has only about 40 certified green hotels with a "Sustainable Hotels" certificate. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether these certified h...

Tourism in Croatia primarily relies on the "sun and sea" product as the main asset of its offering. The current lack of adequate infrastructure, an underdeveloped winter tourism offering and the lack of stakeholders' interest in developing winter tourism products are only some of the problems facing winter tourism development in Croatia. Winter tou...

Energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, and environmental protection projects play a pivotal role in tourism. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) addresses resource management and energy use as one of the major issues. The main goal of the paper is to present the economic–financial analysis and the assessment of investment projects in the c...

The hotel industry consumes large amounts of energy in order to maintain the high level of comfort and service quality. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and propose new measures to increase energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and achieve sustainable local development. Design of the paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of investment proj...

The issue of insolvency is significantly present in countries undergoing transition. In Croatia, there has been significant research on the possibilities of using the existing models for determining the domestic companies’ ability to maintain solvency. Likewise, no model based on business enterprises’ financial data has yet been proposed, which lea...

Sažetak U posljednjim se desetljećima globalna klima znatno promijenila što je utjecalo na ljudsko društvo i prirodu. Ugrožavanje ravnoteže globalnoga ekološkog sustava i pojava intenzivnijih klimatskih promjena, koje dijelom uzrokuju i ljudske djelatnosti, važniji su izazovi čovječanstva. Klimatske promjene, kao globalni fenomen, utjecat će na mij...

The Republic of Croatia is a traditionally tourism-oriented country, and the growth of tourist trafÞ c in recent years shows that tourism is one of the major engines of economic development. The biggest touristic demand is for coastal destinations in summer time. Climate change, however, may affect the Croatian tourism through direct effects - some...

Many of us discuss about past. Some of us are rethinking the present. Only the brave among us dare to devise the future. Discussing the past is easy. Rethinking the present is demanding. But the real challenge comes when dealing with future perspectives. And that is what the authors of following papers dared to do. The idea of this scientific monog...

Purpose – As drivers of economic development, cities need to ensure smart and sustainable growth, which involves solving a series of urban challenges. The purpose of this work is to present the attitudes of the residents, tourists and management on different organizational elements of Opatija and its surrounding, such as transport accessibility, ur...

Purpose – The purpose of the research is to examine the awareness of hoteliers on energy efficiency and environmental protection. The authors wanted to know whether the hotel companies in the inner regions of Istria and Kvarner implement or plan to implement energy efficiency measures in order to use their resources more rationally. Design -Every h...

Purpose – The purpose of the research is to examine the awareness of hoteliers on energy efficiency and environmental protection. The authors wanted to know whether the hotel companies in the inner regions of Istria and Kvarner implement or plan to implement energy efficiency measures in order to use their resources more rationally. Design -Every h...

Purpose – This paper studies the problems and specific issues related to tourism and coastal urbanism, namely through an analysis of the tourist's, the resident's and tourism management's evaluation of the elements of the tourist offer related to space, environment and sustainable development in the tourist region of Kvarner (Croatia). Design -The...

Purpose – This paper studies the problems and specific issues related to tourism and coastal urbanism, namely through an analysis of the tourist's, the resident’s and tourism management's evaluation of the elements of the tourist offer related to space, environment and sustainable development in the tourist region of Kvarner (Croatia). Design - The...

Purpose-This paper studies the problems and specific issues related to tourism and coastal urbanism, namely through an analysis of the tourist's, the resident's and tourism management's evaluation of the elements of the tourist offer related to space, environment and sustainable development in the tourist region of Kvarner (Croatia). Design-The str...

Previously, the development of tourism sought to meet the aspirations of entrepreneurs for quick profits rather than to be sufficiently concerned about preserving natural resources, thus wasting the resource base and permanently reducing the landscape value. Opposed to random and insufficiently planned development is sustainable development, today...

Due to the nature of the offered services, responsible environmental attitude is of particular importance within the tourist sector, which both strongly depends on and influences the intact eco-systems by its development and areal pressure. Modeled according to the good European and world practice, the Program of Environmentally Responsible Managem...

Financial market of any country firstly has to be “secure”, but although financial market is regulated and monitored, we were witnesses of bad examples (Island). So, globally all aspects of corporate governance became interesting: ownership; nature of activities; liquidity ratios, etc. The goal of this paper is to give perspectives of corporate gov...

Investments represent highly valuable economic substance. Being quite scarce, however, these resources must be allocated productively, which is in open market economies dominantly executed through market mechanisms and primarily through financial ones. Therefore, in the economic sense, great importance must be assigned to the discretionary discount...

Challenges to Sustainable Development in Island Tourism Every participant in the life of a local community, hence the local community of the island of Krk as well, must develop an awareness of how they can cooperate in the improvement of quality, environmental protection and safety. This awareness can be achieved through constant education, and the...

The processes of regional spatial planning and tourism are both interconnected and conditioned. The tourism development defined by its mass-participation certainly leads to spatial degradation. Any overbuilt area (recreational homes, concrete-paved beaches) is most likely to become unattractive to tourists. Within the island of Krk sustainable deve...

In today's rapidly changing tourism market, it is getting more and more difficult for a destination to be competitive on the global level. Hotel companies, as well as tour operators have a very important role in creating the tourism product. Tourism companies should be able to create the tourism product whilst operating in a responsible way. With t...

While developing its tourism, every tourist destination must be ecologically oriented in order to obtain a stabile ecological balance in both sustaining and prudent use of its environment. According to this, economical consumption of poor goods is understood, together with its orientation towards the renewable energy sources. In order to promote su...

While developing its tourism, every tourist destination must be ecologically oriented in order to obtain a stabile ecological balance in both sustaining and prudent use of its environment. According to this, economical consumption of poor goods is understood, together with its orientation towards the renewable energy sources. In order to promote su...

While developing its tourism, every tourist destination must be ecologically oriented in order to obtain a stabile ecological balance in both sustaining and prudent use of its environment. According to this, economical consumption of poor goods is understood, together with its orientation towards the renewable energy sources. In order to promote su...

country, and one of its largest. A major part of the scientific and technical advancements of the human race have been accomplished within the cultural and ethnical space of China. China is a mixture of different nations and cultures upon which cooperation has been imposed through centuries of warfare. Coexisting together throughout a millennium, t...

Adoption of foreign capital and its orientation onto the most advantageous directions, in order to guarantee both the successful development of Croatian tourism and gain profit for the potential investors, represents one of the crucial factors in stimulating the development of the entire Croatian economy with the particular impact on the developmen...

Thanks to the application of new technologies which enable rational use of energy, hotel company can now reduce power consumption per night compared to the average expenses of hotels of same quality. This has been enabled by the implementation of so- called intelligent hotel-room system, which includes control system and optimal consumption of ener...

In today's rapidly changing tourism market, it is getting more and more difficult for a destination to be competitive on the global level. Hotel companies, as well as tour operators have a very important role in creating the tourism product. Tourism companies should be able to create the tourism product whilst operating in a responsible way. With t...