In the final work, cruise travel is being analyzed as the fastest growing tourism travel sector in the last 20 years in the world. It has been explained that, apart from the cruise ships themselves, the strong effects of such a type of tourism have ports and destinations that tourists choose to visit on cruise journeys. Since Croatia is in the Mediterranean, which is one of the most popular areas of tourism crusing, the cruise travels are already current in Croatia, especially because of Dubrovnik. In recent years, more and more cruisers stops in other croatian cities, which is positive, but it is shown in the paper that account should be taken of the fact that, due to the dynamic development of cruising tourism, there are expressions and negative effects on the destination, which need to be neutralized. For this reason it is very important to organize the operational part of the port of work in order to meet the needs of the guests but also the local population. At the end of the work it was explained how to improve crusing tourism in Croatia, as well as to invest in promoting Croatia as a cruising destination.