There are two major benefits. The first is a common currency, which eliminates the enormous transactions costs of moving from one currency to another, and imposes some monetary and fiscal stability on regimes that want to maintain the partnership. Tourism, for instance, could provide one of the most important engines for growth and development in Croatia under certain conditions. Prices in Croatia are still too high. Many tourists will be discouraged, because the prices are not competitive.
Some people say that taxes are too high.
The present situation might be partly due to low foreign investment in the tourism industry. Another extremely important aspect of tourism is that tourists carry information both ways. Wealth and power Standards of living are improving in transition countries, yet public opinion about the process is still not positive. This is because of a very skewed distribution of wealth, which is partly a legacy of the socialist system, where there was an elite group which had de facto property rights. They could not own wealth outright, but they had access to all the privileges.