MEMORIAL TOURISM IN CROATIA? A CASE STUDY OF VUKOVAR: ATTITUDES OF LOCAL POPULATION

Klara Vukojević, V. Opačić
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Croatian tourism supply is mainly based on Sun&Sea tourism on the attractive coast and islands. However, in recent years there has been increased competition and the tourists’ demands that have contributed to development of alternative forms of tourism, also in continental part of Croatia. The city of Vukovar, as the battlefield of one of the largest battles in Europe after the World War II, after its peaceful reintegration in the Croatian territory (1997), became the Croatian national memorial place. Even though tourism is not among the leading economy branches in Vukovar, due to its recent past, memorial tourism based on memorial sites from the Croatian Homeland War (1991-1995) could be developed. Memorial tourism is a form of cultural tourism with a supply based on memorial sites - places of important events, in this case the places of suffering and tragedies. As main research objectives can be pointed out: a) the analysis of the characteristics of tourist flow and accommodation facilities in Vukovar after the end of the Croatian Homeland War and its reintegration into the Croatian territory and b) analysis of the Vukovar local population’ attitudes on the possibilities of the development of memorial tourism based on heritage from the Croatian Homeland War. The local population attitudes were detected by a direct questionnaire survey at several locations in the center of Vukovar. In addition to descriptive statistics, statistical analyses were conducted to determine the differences in the respondents’ attitudes (the dependent variable) with regard to gender, average age, level of education and nationality (independent variables). Total of eight statistically significant differences were found using standard statistical methods in SPSS program: chi-square test and t-test.
克罗地亚的纪念旅游?武科瓦尔的个案研究:当地居民的态度
克罗地亚的旅游供应主要以吸引人的海岸和岛屿上的Sun&Sea旅游为主。然而,近年来竞争加剧,游客的需求也增加,这有助于发展其他形式的旅游业,在克罗地亚大陆地区也是如此。武科瓦尔市,作为二战后欧洲最大战役之一的战场,在其和平回归克罗地亚领土(1997年)后,成为克罗地亚国家纪念地。尽管旅游业不是武科瓦尔的主要经济部门之一,但由于其最近的过去,可以开发基于克罗地亚国土战争(1991-1995)纪念遗址的纪念旅游。纪念旅游是一种以纪念场所为基础的文化旅游形式-重要事件的发生地,在这种情况下是苦难和悲剧的发生地。主要研究目标可以指出:a)分析克罗地亚国土战争结束后武科瓦尔的旅游流量和住宿设施的特点,并将其重新纳入克罗地亚领土;b)分析武科瓦尔当地居民对基于克罗地亚国土战争遗产发展纪念旅游的可能性的态度。在武科瓦尔市中心的几个地点进行了直接问卷调查,以了解当地居民的态度。除了描述性统计外,还进行了统计分析,以确定受访者的态度(因变量)在性别,平均年龄,教育程度和国籍(自变量)方面的差异。采用SPSS程序的标准统计方法卡方检验和t检验,共发现8个差异有统计学意义。
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