The paper focuses on the economic consequences of the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, more specifically on the changes that the crisis has brought to the tourism sector. The paper seeks to find out how the global crisis caused by the pandemic has affected tourist demand in Croatia. The theoretical part brings facts about the current global crisis, its consequences on the economic sector, which includes in particular the negative effects on trade in services due to the nature of the global crisis. The paper then focuses on tourism demand and its benefits for the Croatian economy, emphasizing how much the domestic economy benefits and how much it relies on this tertiary activity. In the empirical part, the aim of the paper is to connect the consequences of the global crisis on the tourism sector, which are discussed in the theoretical part with the Croatian tourism market; the focus narrows from effects at the global level to effects in a particular country - in this case Croatia. To this end, two hypotheses have been set up and proven that focus on the link between the global crisis and tourism demand, specifically the link between movement restrictions and the number of arrivals and overnight stays. Also, in order to confirm the hypothesis, the perception of the local population about greater motivation for vacation in Croatia in conditions of limited movement imposed by the pandemic was analyzed. At the very end, a conclusion was made based on confirmed hypotheses and suggestions on how to reduce the problem and thus be one step closer to overcoming the crisis.