The theme of this master's is analyse statistically and come to a conclusion wheather in the years of crisis, between 2008. until 2014., investing in promotion of tourism effected the changing of GDP and tourism movement of five Mediterranean countries. The theoretical part of the master's consists of literature in the area of financial crisis, her effects and consequences and what types of financial crisis there are and what are their consequences on countries effected by financial crisis. Also, special attention is paid to the term investing in time of financial crisis and how to in time of recession and problems find reasons and resources to invest. The work consists of theoretical and empirical part of the research developed on the basis of clearly defined problem. The research problem is the amount of investments in promoting tourism and exactly how much they help countries to lower the effects of financial crisis. The aim of this study is to see if financial crisis and her effect of oscillation of GDP and tourism movement has a connection with investing in promotion of tourism. After carefully colecting data from 7 years time the data have been grouped and in detail according to countries analyzed. After that comes the empirical part where in SPSS programe is researched how much all the factors influence each other and the very conclusion of the work. The aim was in years of the greatest financial crisis investigate the connection between GDP and tourism movement versus investing in tourism promotion. The main results of this research have found that the results for each country are different and even the ones which from year to year invest less and less in promoting tourism still have greater number of comings and nights per year, while countries which invest more each year have more comings and nights per year. Conclusion is that how much investing in promotion of tourism helps in building better tourism season it is not as such of a great importance.