Yesterday in the evening, there was a power outage at Pile in Dubrovnik and part of the historic core, which did not come even today, which caused mild chaos and the collapse of the system in our main tourist destination – Dubrovnik. According to the eVisitor tourist check-in and check-out system, not including nautical data, Dubrovnik made its first million overnight stays on 1 June this year, five days earlier than last year. Growth, growth, growth… for whom growth and how to grow further? Who’s crazy here? How can this be normal in the 21st century? Where is the strategic and sustainable development? It is not the tourism itself that is to blame, it is the fault of the people who do not manage all the processes, including the development of tourist destinations and tourism. This problem is not from yesterday, it was only a matter of time, when it will escalate. And this is not only a problem of Dubrovnik, but of all our tourist destinations, in which ten times more inhabitants “settle” in the summer months, and the infrastructure and cities are cracking at the seams. Strategic and sustainable development of a tourist destination. I keep repeating myself, and I turn out to be already funny to myself because I keep repeating myself. The Republic of Dubrovnik was once one of the most advanced countries in the world. And today? And it would not be strange if an isolated case happened, but in the 21st century in Dubrovnik in the middle of the tourist season, and we live from tourism, to collapse the whole network due to too much workload is at least a scandal and unfortunately only more one piece of evidence in a series of how our tourism is evolving by accident. Because how else to explain when during the last 10-20 years of development of the city and tourism, from which millions of kunas are poured into the city treasury, no investment was made in basic and basic infrastructure. Why is there a power outage? “I read somewhere that the caterers and apartment owners are angry, but I don’t think they went to ask HEP how many devices they will install and before that they didn’t care if someone would be left without electricity because of that. It’s a system of connected vessels and, lo and behold, I believe it’s a short-lived malfunction and I hope it will be fixed quickly”Franković concluded for Večernji list. Interestingly, for the mayor of Dubrovnik, it is not the fault of the City or HEP, but of the caterers and apartment owners. Where and in what was the huge earnings from tourism in Dubrovnik spent in the past 10-20 years, if not in the primary thing as strengthening the electricity network in line with tourism growth? We are really funny, after so many years of dealing with tourism, we are falling for basic infrastructure problems. If the city grows and develops, the entire infrastructure must be developed at the same pace, because otherwise the system will break down. We push problems under the rug until a case like this happens and then no one is to blame or everyone is surprised. “The system is overloaded mostly due to numerous air conditioners, but also other things that are there to provide services in the hospitality industry. Obviously all of this together couldn’t stand it so this happened. HEP is otherwise working on improving the system, we used to have significant problems which are now absent to such an extent and electricity is disappearing less, and this is a separate casej ”said Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković for Vecernji list he added that he did not see anything dramatic there. The entire tourist development is unsustainable in almost all tourist destinations. As the number of arrivals and overnight stays grows every year, we are shooting more and more at the seams. Through tourism we encourage imports, we live off the classic rent, we raise prices from year to year, without thinking about value for money, and without such an important strategic, planned and sustainable development. Going while going is a mantra, and no one is watching what will be tomorrow. This example from Dubrovnik is the darkness of our tourism, no matter how much one thinks this is an isolated case. Not unfortunately, as was the case with the shortage of manpower, but everyone closed their eyes and pushed the whole system until it cracked until it cracked. The city of Dubrovnik is to blame because the city has not developed strategically, planned and sustainably. From overloading the sewerage network, low water pressure, wild expansion of the city without a defined GUP, to strengthening the electricity network. If we have “one” main sewer pipe, and hundreds of new users are added to it, the logic is that the system will be overloaded and burst. So is the electrical network. Not to mention the parking lot. This is simply unacceptable and incomprehensible in today’s tourist destinations. The same thing with the overload of the electricity network happens every year in Dalmatia where unfortunately it is only a matter of time before the same case happens. Every year the same story – do not turn on the air conditioner so that the electrical network does not break. And all this in the 21st century. The mayor of Dubrovnik points out that I do not see anything dramatic here and that no one should be particularly worried about that. And there is the biggest problem and the biggest tragedy, which the first man of the city does not see as a problem. About the breakdown of the Pile Substation, on request Dubrovnik Herald, commented from Hrvatska elektroprivreda: “Last night, due to an exceptional increase in consumption on the low-voltage network, a transformer in the Pile area burned out. The replacement of the transformer was delayed due to a number of technical and operational difficulties, and mostly due to the impossibility of obtaining a permit for temporary suspension of traffic, which would make it easier to access the location of the fault. The workers of Elektrojug Dubrovnik are taking everything necessary to establish the electricity supply as soon as possible. – reported from HEP for Dubrovački vjesnik. How do you explain to guests in the 21st century that there is a power outage? Is it possible thatYes, someone is sabotaging me(my whole life)He is also lobbying against me(my whole life)Someone is sabotaging meMaybe it’s the governmentMaybe they are SerbsMaybe FreemasonsSomeone is sabotaging me- Vojko V – How is that? It is the basic infrastructure. Water, electricity, sewage… If someone is to blame for this incredible omission, it is primarily the city of Dubrovnik that is to blame, and then HEP, which must have known about this problem for years. Where does all the money in HEP go if not for the basic maintenance of the electricity network? Why hasn’t the problem that was known been solved a long time ago? Did it really take a break for the entire power grid to react? The question is whether to react in the right way at all and solve the problem in the long run or just right now. Electricity came only in the afternoon. The reason for the power outage is transformer burnout on Pile due overload of the whole system. How do we move forward? Nothing, let’s go on as before, growth, growth and only growth…
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