Implementation of Containment and Closure Measures During COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Effect on Tourism in Croatia
Implementation of Containment and Closure Measures During COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Effect on Tourism in Croatia

Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in early 2020 has a strong impact on human health but also on many other segments of life such as the economy. To prevent the spread of the infection, governments are implementing containment and closure measures to limit contact between people and their mobility. One of the direct consequences of limited mobility is a decrease in tourism demand. In this paper are presented the containment and closure measures implemented by the Croatian government to restraint the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is also analysed the impact of these measures on tourism. The government in Croatia had a complex task: with containment and closure measures, they tried to prevent the spread of the infection, and on the other hand, they wanted to attract foreign tourists, who make the majority of overnight stays in Croatia. During the summer tourism season in 2020, containment and closure measures were implemented, and in the summer of 2021, despite a larger number of infected and dead, these measures were not intensified, since the attempts to stop the pandemic, in addition to the containment and closure measures, also involved vaccination. Tourism in Croatia during the COVID-19 pandemic achieved satisfactory results, similar to those from 2019: this is partly the consequence of the optimal level of containment and closure measures, but also the unfavourable epidemiological situation in other Mediterranean countries.

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