Tourism is today one of the fastest growing and most profitable economic activities. Globalization, technological development of means of transport, as well as extensive infrastructure have greatly influenced tourism development. The number of trips is growing from year to year, and it is becoming normal to travel to distant destinations. Although tourism has a number of advantages and disadvantages, there is also a vulnerability to the impact of the corona virus pandemic. The paper aims to determine the impact of the corona virus pandemic on tourism and the tourist destination of the city of Dubrovnik. The subject of this paper is to show how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on the tourist destination itself. Also, given the existing trends, determine the possibility of scenarios that will lead to a recovery in demand for the tourist destination of the city of Dubrovnik. The paper presents the results of an empirical research conducted by the method of a survey on a deliberate sample of the local population of the city (N =44) on opinions and attitudes about the expected recovery of tourism development after the corona virus pandemic in the area.