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Vuk Tvrtko Opačić Tourism Valorisation of Croatian Intangible Cultural Heritage
Figure 1 The Geographical Position of the Town of Sinj and the Cetinska Krajina Region
Source Croatian Geodetic Administry (2016)
Tourism flow in the administrative area of the We used official data on the number of visitors to the
Town of Sinj over the last ten years was analysed by Sinjska Alka Museum from its opening in 2015 to the
descriptive statistics methods using official data from end of 2021 to analyse the number of museum visits
the Croatian Tourist Board and sourced from the yearly and monthly.
eVisitor system for the most recent six consecutive The prevalence of the Sinjka Alka in the tour-
years (2016–2021), while data for the period 2012– ist brochures and tourist maps published by the Sinj
2015 derives from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Tourist Board and the Public Institution RERA S.D.
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