The market for supplying tourism and hospitality, known as the HoReCa channel, has experienced three major blows in the last 15 years: the financial crisis, problems with Agrokor, and a labor shortage. In all three challenges, HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, cafes) not only remained standing but grew at double-digit rates. It has proven to be one of the most resilient and flexible industries in the Croatian economy. The current, fourth blow, can be termed the corona lockdown. The question is whether it will manage to get back on its feet during the countdown to the end of the season. No challenge so far has physically closed restaurants and hotels (excluding wartime conditions) and broken the links of the chain on which the Croatian tourism offer depends in such a brutal manner. What the consequences will be for the broader economy, which is indirectly linked to HoReCa, is revealed by Željka Laslavić.
The increasingly popular idea of relying on one’s own resources makes sense, but only if it does not turn into a general mantra that the state follows in all economic relations. Export orientation and participation in international trade flows must not become victims of the desire for self-sufficiency. What all the traps of self-sufficiency are was discovered by Vanja Figenvald.
According to statistical indicators, the Croatian economy fell at the beginning of the most severe lockdown just like that of the entire European Union. However, the perception of priorities and problems at that time in Croatia was almost exclusively focused on health in the context of the epidemic. Will this be the topic on which elections will be won or lost? Why does Croatia think about health, Europe about love, and the world about money find out in the text by Goran Litvan.
