Participacija turizma u gospodarstvu pojedinih mjesta južne Istre te promjene pejzaža od konca 19. stoljeća do 1930-ih godina
Contribution of Tourism to the Economy of Various Townships in the Southern Istria and Changes of Landscapes from the Late 19th Century to the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: Tourism is a relatively »new« social and economic phenomenon with origins that can, from a global perspective, be tracked back to the 19th century. Tourism reached truly massive proportions after the Second World War, becoming the economic backbone of many countries in Europe and the world. The first tourist localities along the eastern coast of the Adriatic appeared in the last two decades of the 19th century and succeeded in developing genuine tourist destination »physiognomies« in this period. These destinations had thus embarked on a long-term path of development into summer and winter destinations providing accommodation for the more affluent visitors. In this period, primarily due to the health benefits of the climate, several centres in Istria evolved into summer resorts renowned all over Europe, such as the Brijuni Islands, Opatija, Lovran, Portorož, and other locations, owing in large part to the vicinity of the Vienna-Trieste railway, with the routes Divača-Pula, Pivka-Rijeka and Budapest-Zagreb-Rijeka. Nevertheless, the primary purpose of this paper is to track the development of tourism using the example of less developed townships in the southern Istria (Medulin, Banjole), to examine the contribution of tourism to the economy of the above area and to research the influence of development of those places to the change of landscape in the period from the 1890s to the 1930s.

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