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August 11, 2022 – A safe tourist season is a good tourist season. Safety at sea is just as important as any other kind. A significant maritime safety action was conducted on Wednesday, August 10, resulting in hefty fines. The Adriatic Sea remains safe, as the officials of the port authorities gave out fines in the total amount of HRK 421 thousand to violators who did not respect the prescribed sailing speeds in the unauthorized sea area. As reported by Poslovni, as part of the "Safe navigation 2022 II" action in all port authorities, 368 inspections were carried out and…

ZAGREB, 11 August, 2022 - The Safe Journalists network and the Croatian Journalists' Association (HND) on Thursday condemned threats against a reporter for the Zadarski List, Toni Perinić, who was investigating a case of a tourist scam, with the associations calling on competent institutions to punish the perpetrator as soon as possible. The Safe Journalists network said that Perinić, who is 21, received threats while investigating online tourist complaints, as well as those sent to the local tourism board, about an apartment renter from Privlaka. The associations added that the reporter was threatened by the renter's father, who, among other things, told Perinić to "be…

August 11, 2022 - A summer blast from the past brought to us by the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb. Check out the 1970s swimsuits in Croatia! "Summer gives birth to new people...harmonious, unrestrained. Pristinely beautiful. Between air, water, and sun. A swimsuit is part of them. Their ways. Their beauties." reads an advertising brochure used by the Varaždin VIS factory in the 1970s to entice customers to buy its swimsuits.  Swimwear has undoubtedly evolved throughout history, and many new swimwear trends are met with outrage - well, compared to the swimsuits of the past. The Nikola Tesla Technical…

ZAGREB, 11 Aug (Hina) - The average net monthly salary for May paidby legal entities in Zagreb was HRK 8,863 (€1,182), an increase of 7.4% over May 2021, the city department for strategic planning and development said. Compared with the national average of HRK 7,690 (€1,025), the average take-home pay in Zagreb was HRK 1,173 (€156) higher. The highest average net salary was paid in the extraction of crude oil and natural gas industry, of HRK 15,851 (€2,113), and the lowest in the leather manufacturing industry, of HRK 4,883 (€651). (€1 = HRK 7.5)

August 11, 2022 – Tourist Season 2022 has been dynamic in Croatia. Tourists from all over the world are arriving in record numbers, so much so that Croatia still needs thousands of tourist workers to meet its capacities. On the other hand, not all Croatian citizens can afford summer holidays in their own country. And they are not alone. Another unpleasant surprise hides in the number of arrivals from across the Adriatic. As Poslovni writes, the president of the Association of Croatian Travel Agencies, Boris Žgomba, was a guest in Novi dan and commented on this year's tourist season. “If…

August 18, 2022 – Picture this. You live in Slavonia. You are 16, it is the height of summer, plans include swimming in the Danube all day and partying all night. Guess again. There’s more important business. It involves plums, apricots, tomatoes, peppers, maybe beetroots. And it’s not a very weird salad. You are now old enough to make your own zimnica. The winter staples - tomato passata, apricot and plum jam, pickled beetroots and peppers While not a uniquely Slavonian event, zimnica, which is the Croatian word for anything that is kept specifically for the winter, plays an extremely…

August 11, 2022 – Planned tourism is only starting to take shape in Croatia, and foreign investment, it seems, plays a significant role. One of such projects found its home under the Adriatic sun on the island of Ugljan, near Zadar, where Adriatic Tourist Resorts will undertake a revitalisation of the Zelena Punta resort. As Poslovni reports, after almost four years that it took to complete the process of taking over the Resort Zelena Punta in Kukljica on the island of Ugljan from the bankrupt Coning, Adriatic Tourist Resorts (ATR) finally embarked on an ambitious investment in the largest tourist…

August 11, 2022 - Memories of Croatia in 1996, as remembered by a 5-year-old visiting for the first time from America. I was recently interviewed by someone in the United States working on a research project with Croatians and Croatian-Americans about the relationships between tourists and locals in Croatia. As a Croatian-American and someone who has lived in Croatia for seven years, I was a good fit.  The wonderful hour-long Zoom call took me on a journey through my Croatian adventures, from the Croatian influence in my family growing up in San Diego to my first visit to Croatia in…

ZAGREB, 10 August, 2022 - A plaque was unveiled on a bridge in Petrinja on Wednesday naming it the Volunteers' Bridge in honour of the people who came to Petrinja in 2020 to help local residents deal with the aftermath of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit the city on 29 December 2020. The new name of the bridge over the River Petrinjčica was proposed by the Petrinja Spring civic group who in that way wanted to express their gratitude to all volunteers from Croatia and abroad who came to Petrinja immediately after the earthquake. The head of the local fire brigade,…

August 9, 2022 - Numerous events organized in the small Istrian town of Grožnjan in August will see some of the greatest international artists.  Tportal writes about the series of events, organized by the International Cultural Center of the Croatian Musical Youth (HGM). Currently, The Musica Antica, an early music workshop, the Michael Chekhov Summer Mentor Training Academy and the International School of Architecture are underway. Before August is over,  the Summer Piano School and seminars on horn, saxophone, oboe and clarinet will be held. The Early Music Workshop, also called the "Musica Antica" Campus is organized by the HGM…