This Bachelor's thesis describes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gambling tourism in the Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica. The thesis provides a general introduction to gambling tourism and defines key related terms. It also includes a description of the study area, i.e. the Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica, with all its main tourist attractions, and an overview of the state of tourism before, during, and after the pandemic at the national level. The core of the thesis contains an analysis of statistical data on tourist arrivals in the Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica in the periods before, during, and after the pandemic, based on data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. The core also covers all the main performance indicators of the main gambling operator in Nova Gorica, Hit, throughout the three periods mentioned above. This analysis allows for further study of gambling tourism as its popularity is increasing again in the wake of the pandemic.
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