TY - JOUR AU - Alkier, Romina AU - Jerak, Tonći AU - Milojica, Vedran PY - 2020/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Perspective of development of golf tourism in Croatia JF - BizInfo (Blace) Journal of Economics, Management and Informatics JA - home VL - 11 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.5937/bizinfo2002047A UR - http://bizinfo.edu.rs/index.php/bizinfo/article/view/196 SP - 47-65 AB - <p><em>Golf tourism represents an important part of a sports tourism offer of a destination. In the last couple of decades, it has been registering growth on European and world level. Golfers are characterized as tourists with high purchasing power which was an additional stimulus for tourist destinations to invest in developing golf tourism, in order to attract a large number of golf players, and that way increase the tourist turnover with particular emphasis on tourist consumption. The primary aim of this paper was to present the current state of golf tourism offer in Europe, as well as the state of golf tourism in the Republic of Croatia, as a European Union member with the use of data from secondary sources. Based on the findings the authors presented the developmental activities.</em></p> ER -