The Impact of COVID-19 on Croatian Tourism: A Prisma-Compliant Systematic Literature Review
The Impact of COVID-19 on Croatian Tourism: A Prisma-Compliant Systematic Literature Review

Author(s): Katerina Fotova Čiković, Violeta Cvetkovska, Trina Mjeda
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Tourism
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Tourism; COVID-19; Croatia; Literature review; PRISMA guidelines
Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 has drastically altered the world in 2020 and influenced all aspects of people’s lives and the ways businesses operate. The tourism sector was one of the economic sectors that were hit hardest by the global pandemic. Considering that the tourism sector in Croatia is one of the key economic sectors that contribute highly to the GDP, this paper provides a systematic literature review of studies investigating the impact of COVID-19 on tourism in the case of Croatia. Therefore, the goal was to survey and give a summary of the relevant papers published regarding the impact of COVID-19 on Croatian tourism as well as to investigate the current state of the art in this specific field, highlighting the findings regarding the COVID-19’s impact on Croatian tourism. The PRISMA guidelines have been applied by using the keywords: „tourism“, „COVID-19“ and „Croatia“ to the Scopus scientific database from its inception to 07 October 2022, and a manual abstract and full-text screening and review of the references of relevant studies was conducted thereafter. This resulted in 18 relevant published papers in peer-indexed journals in the Scopus database. The findings could be of great practical contribution to the government, policymakers and local tourist authorities and communities.

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