Tourism is an important economic branch that must function well and in order to achieve that it is necessary to establish the organizational structure of tourism. The paper defines the concepts of tourism and organization and presents a review of the history of tourism development and the emergence of the first organizational forms in tourism. The influence of the state on tourism has been explained and the way the state is involved in tourism activities. In the Republic of Croatia as well as in other countries, the organizational structure of tourism is a state, social, economic and vocational level. Each of these levels is explained and examples of organizations belonging to them are listed. The paper deals with the Ministry of Tourism and other ministries that influence tourism as the state-level organizers of tourism. Hunting tourism is presented as a new type of tourism. An example of the organizational structure of hunting shows similarity with the organizational structure of tourism. The aim of all this is to show the importance of applying the organizational structure for the development of the economic branch to which it applies. The economic and vocational level is explained and the activities of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts and Trade Associations were described