The long-term competitiveness of tourist destinations is directly linked to their sustainable development.An extremely important starting point for tourism management is recognition of sustainability based on indicators.Only the assessment of the situation, but also the continuous monitoring of sustainability, creates the necessary basis for effective management of development in stable direction.With the intention of establishing Croatia as a sustainable destination it is important that destination management organizations seek to address tourism sustainability through concrete activities and measures, not just declaratively.For this purpose, the situation in the local tourist boards in Adriatic and Continental Croatia has been analyzed in order to determine the extent to which the state of sustainability is monitored, activities in the field of sustainability (and green tourism) are carried out and whether the planning and management documents provide clear guidelines for the sustainable development of destinations.Based on the analysis, we can conclude that there are five basic types of destinations with respect to sustainable tourism: destinations that use sustainability only as a term without basis (1), destinations that have conceptual solutions, but do not implement projects (2), destinations with a range of activities in one dimension of sustainability (3), destinations with implemented projects in all sustainability dimensions (4) and destinations that consider sustainability as a part of the image and reality of the destination, and measure the effects of tourism on sustainability and, based on measurements, implement projects in all sustainability dimensions (5).
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