Abstract:

Private accommodation represent dominant type of accommodation in tourist offer in Republic of Croatia as well as in County of Šibenik-Knin. In this paper rooms, apartments, studio apartments and holiday houses owned by physical entities are defined as private accommodation. This paper presents the results of a preliminary research conducted on private accommodation in County of Šibenik-Knin. Research was conducted in October 2020. in order to emphasis private accommodation as an important part of tourism offer and importance for the further research of this issue. Thus, the aim of this paper is to make insight into characteristic of providers of private accommodation as well as to identify motives for renting accommodation, to analyze quality of accommodation and satisfaction of providers of private accommodation considering local community and tourist board efforts.

Keywords: