Tourist Assessment of Croatian Roads

Autor: Joso Vurdelja, Šemso Tanković, Nada Pleli
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Promet (Zagreb), Vol 13, Iss 5, Pp 299-308 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0353-5320
1848-4069
DOI: 10.7307/ptt.v13i5.720
Popis: As environmentally clean industry and as the most significantworld industry regarding the number of employees and theimpact on the social and economic development of a countTy,tourism represents an extremely important social and economicbranch for Croatia.As a functional unit of the mutually interweaving socialand economic relations, tourism is a complex phenomenonwhose development depends on a number of compatible factorsout of which the transport infrastructure is considered to bethe most obvious and almost the most significant one, i.e. thefirst among the equal. This is primarily true for road traffic infrastructure,since road trai!Sportation of tourists by passengercars, buses and motorcycles accounts for more than 90 percentof the overall tourist journeys in Croatia.The topic of this paper is precisely, among other things, thetourist assessment of the Croatian road network by means ofthe so-called econometric model regarding the contribution ofa certain road route to the overall tourist traffic.Practical implementation of the elaborated problematicshould result in the improvement of road infrastructure eitherby constructing new motonvays and/or roads, or by reconstructionand/or modernisation of the existing traffic routes.
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