Today, Rabac is a well-known tourist resort. By the middle of the 19th century, it was a small fishermen village with hardly ten houses. Due to the beautiful bay and splendid, tame surroundings, it soon attracted first visitors. The inhabitants of Rabac were skilled fishermen, seamen and owners of some ten sailboats which were either destroyed in the Second World War or pushed back by modern ships. The first larger hotel ('Trieste') was built in the period of the Italian government in 1925 in the very center of Rabac. The capacity of the hotel could not meet the ever growing demand of tourists, mainly from the northern parts of Italy. Hence the more intensive development of private accommodation took place. Tourism in Istria, as well as in Rabac, began to develop during the sixties, when this small resort, due to its natural beauty, got the flattering name of 'The Pearl of the Kvarner Bay'. Since then, all existing hotels, apartments, camping sites and the majority of the private houses have been built. Among the visitors, for years now, the most numerous have been Germans and Austrians followed by English and Italians.