Franko Gugic

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Today with David McCullagh · A blessing or a burden: Is the cruise industry responsible for overtourism? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

That is correct.

So actually when you look at the, let's say the numbers, you actually have more of a lost revenue rather than a big revenue because these guys from cruise reports, they would usually just pay the city tax and that's it.

So there's no spending.

All of the meals are actually done on board.

They have their own tourist guides.

They had the companies they were working with that were taking them to the old city from the cruise port.

so basically most of the city itself was not profiting of those kinds of tourists it was more of a lost revenue because whenever we would recommend people to go into the old city of Dubrovnik let's say the non-cruise ship tourists what would happen is we would let them know don't go from i don't know 10 in the morning up until 3 4 p.m because it's just going to be

overcrowded and then instead of those guys going to the old city doing the walls or going to a restaurant or a cafe or museums they're actually staying at home or going to the beach and not spending any so unesco said the situation was so bad that dubrovnik's world heritage status could be removed so action was taken only two ships a day can come in now has that made much of a difference

Quite a bit of a difference, to be honest.

So now with this limit, well, the thing is Dubrovnik, the old city itself, is having the old foundations and everything, but they have the people counter on the gates.

So UNESCO actually and the city itself can observe how many people are in the city at the moment.

And with the reduction of cruise ships, it made it very well.

I mean, now going to the old city, it's actually...

It's going to get crowded.

I mean, it's a tourist place.

That's something that's inevitable.

But you can pass through the streets.

You can go to restaurants.

You can check out the walls, the fortress.

Just limiting the number of cruise ships was improving the situation for quite a lot.

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