The paper “The impact of safety perception in choosing tourist destination“ has five chapters. The introduction presents the main topic and the subject of the paper. The unit explains the author's motivation behind the effort and elaborates on the reasons for choosing the topic in question. The author elaborated all the factors crucial for Croatian citizens in choosing some tourist destination, what safety level they are looking for as travelers and pondered the impact of each safety factor on destination decision-making process. The author used a combined methodology embracing both qualitative and quantitative methods during research. The author used secondary data on existing research in Croatian and English including many scientific articles and reliable internet sources. The primary research was conducted by using a survey collecting the data from 63 citizens in The Republic of Croatia who spends their vacation abroad at least once per year. The research showed that safety is not perceived as a crucial factor among survey participants during their decision-making process regarding the destination. What they emphasized as the most important, for them, are flight prices and historical amenities and natural heritage, resources and beauties. The majority of participants has traveled within the last three years to destinations of a high risk of terrorism or some other security threat or they are planning to visit aforementioned by the end of the year. The research confirmed the participant's behaviour in accordance with the tourist's behaviour in general, pointing to the fact their decisions were never under the greater influence of any security threat.