CLASSIFICATION
OF PORTS FOR NAUTICAL TOURISM IN CROATIA
Classification
of ports of nautical tourism in Croatia is
carried out pursuant to the
Tourism Industry Law ("Official Gazette" 8/96, 19/96 and
76/98) and the Regulation on Classification and Categorization of
Ports for Nautical Tourism ("Official
Gazetteģ, no. 142/99, 47/00, 121/00 and
45/01).
Ports
for nautical tourism are classified per
type. The type is being determined by the type of services rendered at a certain
port. Each type of the port for nautical tourism, depending on the rendered
services, must comply with prescribed minimal and special standards regarding
its construction, appearance and equipment.
Ports
for nautical tourism are classified as :
-
anchorage
-
mooring
-
dry
storage marinas
-
marinas
Ports
for nautical tourism must comply with minimal conditions prescribed by
thereabove mentioned Regulation,
unless differently prescribed for a
certain port by the same Regulation. Minimal conditions are regulated as general
and special minimal conditions.
General
minimal conditions refer to:
-
proper
operation and functioning of appliances/installation and equipment
-
electric energy
supply
-
supply of
sanitary safe water
-
basic services
offered in the port (use of telephone, facilities for refuse and waste materials
disposal , warden and reception service)
-
premises for
personal hygiene of tourists - boaters
-
facilities and
equipment for environmental protection
-
fire safety
-
personnel
-
rooms for
personal hygiene of personnel
Special
minimal conditions must be satisfied by some ports for nautical tourism
depending on its type, and they refer to:
-
obligatory
structure of installation and equipment
-
minimum of
basic services that must be offered
-
minimum
additional services (shops, catering etc.) that a port must provide for its
tourists-boaters.
Ports
for nautical tourism belonging to the type anchorage, mooring and dry storage
marina, in order to be classified,
must comply with general minimal conditions and special minimal conditions.
These types of ports for nautical tourism are not being categorized.
Ports
for nautical tourism classified as "marinas" must be categorized.
CATEGORY
is the designation /mark of the port for nautical tourism, type marina.
Marinas
are categorized into three categories.
-
I
category denotes marinas of the highest standard
-
II category
denotes marinas of the medium standard
-
III category
denotes marinas of the lowest standard
The
assignment of category
to a marina depends on the compliance with the conditions prescribed in
the Regulation for each category and it depends on : the quality of facilities
and equipment, standard of basic services, diversity of
additional services that are offered to tourist-boaters at the marina ,
as well as other services and
facilities being at disposal to tourists-boaters in the immediate vicinity of
the marina and the quality of maintenance of the marina as a whole.
IV
PRESENT STATE OF CATEGORIZATION
Since
publication of the Regulation on Classification of the Ports for Nautical
Tourism in 1996, the Ministry of
Tourism has categorized all the marinas that have submitted their requests to be
categorized.
V SURVEY OF CATEGORIZED MARINAS
VII LIST OF CLASSIFIED PORTS OF NAUTICAL TOURISM (EXCEPT MARINAS)