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For better development of alternative tourism supply in mountain tourism destinations it is necessary to identify and evaluate tourism attractions that could be better valorised when creating tourism products. It is an essential part of the destination analysis to determine perception of local population and tourists when evaluating tourism attractiveness. Olympic Mountain Bjelašnica in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a representative case study of mountain tourism destination, whose recent phase of tourism development is characterized by a variety of tourism supply that allows practicing many forms of tourism with the dominance of the winter tourist season and the skiing tourism of mass character. The principal aim of the study is to determine the differences in the evaluation of tourism attractions of alternative tourism in tourism supply of Bjelašnica within and between group of local residents and tourists. Direct survey was conducted during the summer 2016 and sample included 98 local residents and 111 tourists. Results show: a) tourists evaluate most of attractions higher then local residents, b) some attractions are higher evaluated by younger and more educated local residents, c) older tourists evaluate cultural and historical heritage better, while tourists with college degree are most satisfied with tourism and recreational infrastructure considering the age, gender and level of education, and d) all clusters of attractions are rated as more attractive by tourists who stay at purpose-built mountain tourist resort Babin Do, compared to those in Bjelašnica's villages. Results can be applied as a guideline to raise local residents' awareness of tourism attractions and developing more specific tourism supply that will address not solely mass tourism, but also alternative forms of tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few decades, the Croatian coast and islands, under the influence of the second home phenomenon, have been an area of intensive transformation. In order to better understand the complex impact of second homes on space, and to adopt suitable guidelines for the future management of this phenomenon, it is necessary to investigate in as much detail as possible the motivational factors of second home owners in deciding to purchase a second home in a particular location. The second home phenomenon in a receiving second home area will have very different characteristics, and will thus reflect differently on the environment, if the owners of dwellings for vacation and recreation have predominantly consumer (recreational-leisure) motives than if their decision is based on production (commercial-entrepreneurial) motives. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyse the motivational patterns for owning a second home by researching the opinions of owners of dwellings for vacation and recreation in Malinska on the island of Krk. The attitudes of the heads of local authorities on the island of Krk, of the local population, and of second home owners in Malinska are investigated in order to assess the pull factors of Malinska and of Krk as a whole for second home owners. The main conclusion of the research is confirmation of the hypothesis that owning a second home in Malinska, an impressive receiving settlement in the Croatian littoral area, and in today's free real estate market conditions, is primarily motivated by recreational-leisure motives, i.e. consumer motives, and not production ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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