Memories of war and warfare tourism in Croatia

Abstract

The main objective of the paper is to clarify the nature of the phenomenon of warfare tourism in relation to the homeland war through empirical research focusing on the perspective of young Croatian residents. A total of 292 fi lled questionnaires were prepared for the analyses – Ward’s principal component score method, Independent Sample test and descriptive analyze were employed in this paper. We found out that only a small share of youths see warfare sites visitation directly as being a part of tourism ; remembrance and educational purposes were at the top of identifi ed reasons. Hence, two clusters of youths could be identifi ed – supporters of remembrance and skeptics.