Growth and Quality of Family Accommodation in the Function of Tourist Development of Slavonski Brod

EasyChair Preprint no. 5042

Abstract

The city of Slavonski Brod has been intensively developing as a tourist destination. Although the main motives for the arrival of tourists are business and family gatherings and other types of social events, and "food and accommodation" in cases of guests in transit, tourist traffic shows a tendency to increase which implicitly leads to an increase in accommodation. From the data of the E-visitor system, it is evident that more progressive growth is recorded in complementary compared to basic accommodation facilities. This is primarily due to the fact that, in the circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic and the conditions in which the hospitality sector operates due to the epidemiological measures, family accommodation owners continue to operate relatively well (in the period from January to  November 2020 family accommodation recorded a decrease of 24% compared to the same period in 2019, which is even 22% less than the average decline at the level of all city accommodation facilities). The goal of the research we will conduct among the local population in the form of a survey questionnaire will be to determine their attitude regarding apartmentization. We will also conduct interviews with several renters to find out if they intend to provide accommodation services in future, and/or to expand/modernize existing accommodation units. The hypothesis that we will try to prove is that both the growth and the quality of family accommodation in a tourist destination are in the function of its tourist development. The results of the research should motivate the domicile population that has a surplus of rooms to provide accommodation services as additional activity and assist local government units in adopting measures to encourage private entrepreneurship in tourism.

Keyphrases: family accommodation, Slavonski Brod, tourist apartmentization

@Booklet{EasyChair:5042,
  author = {Biljana Lončarić},
  title = {Growth and Quality of Family Accommodation in the Function of Tourist Development of Slavonski Brod},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 5042},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}