Thanks to governmental encouragement and socialist political ideology tourism in socialism started developing. With tourism stimulation, leisure and vacation became a part of workers lives, but its asimilation did face obstacles. Due to the growing industralization citizens of Socialist Republic of Croatia went trough the transformation faster but in longer period than any other country. Leisure became a part of everyday life suported by extra money and free time. Workers'resorts and children summer camps generated great amount of domestic guests until the situation at touristic market changed and goverment began to realize the benefits of tourism for the state. Tourism boom started with turning to foreign guests and the situation in Socialist Republic of Croatia changed. At that time, there was an uncontrolled growth of accommodation capacity, supply growth, increase in number of arrivals, development of smaller localities, placing Socialist Republic of Croatia on the world tourist market. The increase of currency, reducing unemployment, but unfortunately also the recution in quality of services, unplanned construction, destruction of space, littoralization, segregation of domestic guests and many other problems arrose. Tourism in Yugoslavia grew hastily during its golden age , and from a socialistic ideology it became mass tourism, a commercial development that has been a subject of many research papers.