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The Pressure on the Coastal Area as a Factor of Sustainability of Croatian Tourism

Among many aspects of tourism sustainability, especially noteworthy is pressure on the coastal area, i.e. the number of accommodation establishments compared with the length of coastline and total area of the particular geographical units (counties, municipalities, towns or islands). This work elaborates changes in the pressure on the coastal areas in the previous ten years in the entire Croatian coastline in order to show the differences regarding the pressure on the coastal strip and the total areas of coastal administrative units. The first part analyses the number of beds in comparison with the length of coastline and the total areas of Croatian counties with some approximations for smaller spatial units. The second part reports on an analysis of data about secondary homes compared with the previous data in order to show that the pressure fromthis type of accommodation is inmany areasmore dangerous than the pressure caused by commercial tourist accommodation. The concluding part summarises all the previous results, emphasising the differences between various forms of pressures on the coastal areas and pointing out the parts of Croatia that are under especially dangerous pressure from tourism and housing development.

sustainability; pressure on coastal areas; Croatian coastline; length of

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