The heart is the City: Dubrovnik is not an example of sustainable tourism!

The city of approximately 40,000 inhabitants was visited by approximately 1.34 million tourists, that is, more than 3,350 tourists came for every 100 inhabitants of Dubrovnik. This is not an indicator of sustainability, but of extreme tourist pressure, assesses SJG, adding that Dubrovnik is still the absolute record holder for the number of cruise arrivals on the Adriatic.

“During the year 2025, as many as 557 cruise ship arrivals were recorded, which is far more than in Split, Zadar or any other Adriatic port. Can we seriously talk about sustainability when the city systematically increases its dependence on one of the most intensive forms of mass tourism”, asks SJG.

They reminded that Dubrovnik separates only 11 percent of waste, and because of such a low rate of separation, citizens pay almost 200,000 euros in fines, while the Grabovica landfill is about to be closed because it has practically exhausted its capacity.

They also emphasized that Dubrovnik moreć For years, it has had the most expensive apartments in Croatia, which is why it is difficult for young people to solve the housing issue, and families move out of the city.

“At the same time, the GUP, which enables apartment building and the devastation of space, was not changed for the full nine years of Frank’s rule. Instead of planned development, we got improvisation, concretization and settlements that increasingly resemble urban chaos,” SJG claims.

The party says that a sustainable city is not only a city that achieves tourist records, but one where residents can receive medical care, solve the housing issue and live with dignity.