The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism of the Republic of Croatia

Globalna kriza, odnosno pandemija bolesti COVID-19, događaj je koji je obilježio razdoblje nakon 2019. godine te uzrokovao posljedice na globalnoj razini. Postavilo se pitanje kako će se na turizam odraziti globalne posljedice i mjere zaštite, koje su dovedene sa svrhom suzbijanja širenja zaraze. S obzirom na važnost turizma u Republici Hrvatskoj, svrha ovoga rada bila je definirati i procijeniti posljedice pandemije COVID-19 na ovu granu gospodarstva te usporediti rezultate s 2019. godinom, odnosno s razdobljem prije pandemije. Ovaj je rad kvantitativno istraživanje te se podatci temelje na sekundarnim izvorima, odnosno prikupljeni su kroz proučavanje raznih znanstvenih radova i internetskih stranica te se svodi na komparacije rezultata i činjenica prikupljenih iz različitih izvora. Također, za pisanje zaključka rada korištena je metoda dedukcije te analize svih podataka. Uvidom u dobivene rezultate zaključeno je da je u turizmu Republike Hrvatske u 2020. godini došlo do generalnog pada u rezultatima. Potrebno je bilo pratiti rezultate kako bi se prikupilo što više podataka koji pomažu kvalitetnijem i bržem oporavku turizma u Republici Hrvatskoj.The global crisis, in other words the COVID-19 pandemic, is an event that has “defined” the period after 2019 and it has caused consequences on a global level. The question was raised of how the global consequences and the health measures, which have been introduced with the purpose of suppressing the spread of infection, would affect tourism. Given the importance of tourism in the Republic of Croatia, the purpose of this paper is to define and estimate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic within this branch of the economy and compare the results with 2019, the year before the pandemic. This paper is a quantitative research and the data is based on secondary sources, in other words, it was collected by studying different scientific papers and websites. It amounts to comparing results and facts that have been collected from various sources. Also, a deduction method and analysis all of the collected data were used for writing this paper. Taking into account the final results, it was concluded that there has been a general fall in tourism in the Republic of Croatia in 2020. It was necessary to follow the results in order to collect as much data as possible that helps with the faster and more qualitative recovery of tourism in the Republic of Croatia