About BIST

BIST – Business Intelligence System for Tourism

BIST is an online management system for Croatian tourist destinations. It offers its users information on the development of tourism, market trends and accommodation capacities. BIST allows a quick analysis of the competitiveness of Croatian tourist destinations and other types of online analyses. Users can easily follow trends related to the average length of stay, seasonality, market shares, breakdown of guests and the occupancy rate of any tourist destination at local, regional or national levels.
BIST allows users to send ad hoc requests to meet their current needs, as well as continuous information based on a predefined selection of indicators. The data can be easily presented in graphical form and migrated to different computer programs should there be a need to merge the BIST data with data from other sources.
You can learn about BIST and use it after a simple registration procedure. The database, which contains data since 2001, is updated on a monthly basis.

Using the system

The 2001 and 2002 data are available to the public and intended for all those who wish to learn about the system. Access to the system is based on an annual subscription. The subscription fee depends on the level of precision that the user wishes to access. more

The system’s contents

In this phase of development, BIST offers information about the different characteristics of tourist demand, offer and occupancy of accommodation capacities. The source of the data is the database of the Croatian Bureau for Statistics. The system offers information according to one and­/or a combination of characteristics:

Territorial Organization

Administrative division (counties, municipalities, settlements)
Tourist division (tourist regions, categories of tourist destinations, Riviera)
Geographic division (continent, coast, islands)

Tourist Markets

43 individual markets
Markets according to importance (domestic, foreign, primary, secondary, etc.)
Markets of particular groups of countries (EU, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Countries of New Europe, etc.)

Time periods

Year
Month
Tourist seasons

Types of accommodation capacities

32 types of accommodation capacities

Type of arrival in Croatia

Organized
Individual