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This paper presents the development of sports tourism at the Riviera in Poreč from its foundation up to 1990, on the basis of archive sources, the press of the time, other literature etc. Tourism in the Poreč area, like most coastal towns in Istria, developed intensively in that period, especially in the 1970's and 1980's, when it became the prime mover of the municipal economy. At that time Riviera, as one of the largest tourist and hospitality organizations in the country, devoted a great deal of attention and financial resources in providing sporting and recreational facilities, becoming the top provider of selected forms of tourism in Yugoslavia. |