In the history hunting was a vital need, and over the time has become a luxury. Only recently hunting became kind of fun, so it also developed a hunting tourism. Like every branch of tourism, and hunting tourism has historical roots. Hunt out of necessity is the foundation of all links with hunting. Hunting is the one branch of zoology, and its purpose is the cultivation and harvesting of wild animals. In order to understand hunting, it is necessary to get acquainted with the history of zoology in the world and Croatia. Hunting is a selective form of tourism that achieves great income as an economic branch. Croatian hunting tourism potential can be measured by hunting ground, which is on Croatian territory 1,080. Statistics hunting tourism also presents a problem because there are no statistics about income and the number of visits. Revenues, as one of the goals of each destination can be foreseen by tariff of hunting of wild animals. Prices in the price list of all the wild animals are fixed, for the big wild animals are very high, while for small wildl animals are lower. However, to hunting tourism reaches it’s peak, it should first of all set up a strategy of development of this type of tourism.