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Sport is a complex social activity that encompasses various areas. This, of course, complicates the matter of its financing since it is financed by private and public sources. This is mostly due to the fact that certain sporting activities are considered to be public goods which are then financed by public funds, i.e. the state and local budgets. This paper reports on the analysis of public sources of sports financing. The research confirmed the assumption that in the structure of public sources the local budget prevails, i.e. money coming from local budgets is higher than that coming from central government. Based on the given data concerning local budgets for sports, a trend analysis was conducted. Finally, criteria applied when distributing local funds to sports organizations and single sports were analysed. Based on the correlation analysis, this paper shows that the amount of funds coming from local budgets is correlated with sporting performance (medals won at domestic competitions).

Sport events represent a popular motive for travel and can bring a huge influx of visitors with multiple benefits for a destination. The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of previous experience with the destination on future behavior in the form of intention to visit/revisit it and to shed more light on the relationship between visitors’ satisfaction and their future revisit intentions depending on their previous experience with the destination and the sporting event. The research setting was EuroBasket 2015, Zagreb, Croatia (EB), the largest and the most important basketball competition for national teams in Europe. A face-to-face survey with visitors of each of the 15 played games was conducted on site. In total, 765 questionnaires were collected. For the purpose of this paper, only foreign visitors (461 questionnaires) were included in the analysis. The connection between past experience and future intention to visit was tested with Pearson’s chi-squared test, differences in satisfaction levels—using the t-test for independent samples. In the next step of the analysis, we performed an analysis of impact asymmetry (IA) and of impact range (IR). The necessary input data were obtained through an OLS regression model with binary-coded dummy variables. The results showed that repeat visitors are more likely to express an intention to revisit the destination than first-time visitors, but the level of total satisfaction with EB was the same for both groups (first-time visitors and repeat visitors). The most influential event attributes for overall satisfaction were organization of EB in general, layout of the arena, and preparation of the city for the event. The study expanded the theoretical understanding of the visitors’ satisfaction with sporting event attributes as well their intention to revisit the destination.

Rad istražuje je li Hrvatski olimpijski odbor u razdoblju od 2001. do 2016. godine imao prioritetni pristup kod raspodjele sportskog proračuna na sportove, te je li on bio efikasan koristeći prilagođeni sistemski model. Istraživanjem su obuhvaćeni sportaši iz 33 ljetna olimpijska sporta (24 individualna i 9 ekipnih sportova) čije su sportske aktivnosti i nastupi u promatranom razdoblju financirani iz sredstava Hrvatskog olimpijskog odbora. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da je Hrvatski olimpijski odbor imao prioritetni pristup raspodjele sportskog proračuna i da su resursi usmjeravani u osam najuspješnijih sportova, s rijetkim izuzecima. Najveća efikasnost utvrđena je kod individualnih sportova koji imaju više disciplina i u kojima je moguće osvojiti veći broj medalja, dok je slaba efikasnost utvrđena kod ekipnih sportova.