This graduate thesis is a result of research made into the importance of tourism attraction system used to develop tourism in each tourist destination. It was established that sufficient attention was not paid to tourist attractions and all tourist resources, both in theory and in practice. The purpose of the thesis is to help solve this problem and recognise the theoretical model of tourism attraction system and its use in practice. The example of Varaždin County analyses the problems that arise from the application of the theoretical model to a specific tourist destination. On one hand, the entire tourism attraction system of Varaždin County was presented in the Strategic Marketing Plan of 1997, while on the other, at the end of 2017, a limited targeted survey was conducted on the topic of the Country’s gastronomic attractions. The thesis offers a ready-made model for the implementation of a tourism attraction system for each tourist destination, but also warns that tourism attractions system cannot be realised at once, rather that this documentation system should be designed to be implemented over a longer period of time. It is recommended that more attention should be paid to touristic attractions as part of the educational process of tourist experts.