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December 30, 2021 - According to the latest information from the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, 300 tourist board directors in Croatia will be replaced immediately after the New Year. Namely, on January 1, 2022, the provision of the article of the new Law on Tourist Boards and the Promotion of Croatian Tourism, which was adopted in 2020, enters into force, reports Index.hr. As Index.hr learns, the current tourist board directors will not be fired; they do not lose their jobs, but they will have to find a new job within the tourist board if they have an indefinite contract. In…

December the 30th, 2021 - The Croatian public health system is faced with a lot of criticism, much of it is unfounded, here's my story. Last spring was promising me yet another wonderful, very long, carefree and rejuvenating time down by the sea. Retirement is a blessing. It offers freedom of movement (plus freedom of speech if you enjoy it properly) and, especially, total command over one’s time. That's the bright side of it. Time is man’s only true possession - everything else is precarious, ephemeral, temporary or illusional, much like our own bodies and physical states, for example. They're…

December 30, 2021 - The Tkon municipality is preparing for the new tourist season with promotional videos on the Arca Adriatica YouTube channel. The video materials, created as part of the project, aim to promote the Tkon tourist destination and the cross-border area of Croatia and Italy with particular emphasis on maritime heritage, reports HRTurizam. Tkon is a fishing village on the island of Pašman, where small shipyards still build wooden boats to order and where they still produce fishing equipment. Although Tkon is a relatively small municipality in terms of area and population, it is proud of its beautiful…

ZAGREB, 30 Dec 2021 - Montenegro and Croatia have agreed to set up a joint commission to deal with the issue of the Jadran training ship, according to a Montenegrin government document on cooperation with neighbors. Croatian officials have said earlier that the sailing ship should be returned to Croatia because its homeport is Split. The vessel left the port in 1991 to be overhauled in the Montenegrin port of Tivat and has remained thereafter the 1991-1995 war. The Jadran training ship was used by the armies of Serbia and Montenegro, becoming an integral part of the Montenegrin Navy in 2006. The Montenegrin government document, issued…

ZAGREB, 30 Dec 2021 - Croatia has registered 5,958 new coronavirus cases and 27 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Thursday. The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 25,521. Among them are 1,858 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, including 239 who are on ventilators, and 17,722 persons are self-isolating. A total of 3,743,534 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 14,209 in the last 24 hours. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 709,678 people have been registered as having…

December 30, 2021 - The Petrinja Earthquake 1 year on. TCN revisits Majske Poljane, Petrinja and Zuzana 12 months after last year's tour of the earthquake aftermath. A tough day. After last year's devastating earthquakes in and around Petrinja late last December, I decided to visit the worst-affected areas to put together a TCN report in English, which would hopefully show a wider audience the realities on the ground. It was a harrowing day. You can read last year's Majske Poljane, Glina, Petrinja: A Foreigner View of Croatia's Emergency Response.  A year later, I had been planning to support Osijek at…

ZAGREB, 29 December, 2021 - The Adris Group plans to to invest HRK 3.2 billion by 2024, of which 80% or HRK 2.5 billion in the tourism sector, the tourism and insurance group's Director of Corporate Communications, Predrag Grubić, told Hina on Wednesday. Adris will thus invest over HRK 800 million per year in tourism, said Grubić, adding that they were planning to invest in the renovation of Zagreb hotels (the renovation of Panorama is already under way, and Westin is next), as well as in the renovation of Hotel Marjan in Split. The largest part of the investment will be related to these…

December 30, 2021 - The Croatia handball Euro 2022 prep continued with a friendly match against Slovenia on Wednesday night in Celje. On Wednesday, the Croatia men's senior national team suffered a heavy defeat in a friendly match against Slovenia in Celje (33:26). It was the first meeting after three hard training days in the second phase of preparations in Poreč. Nevertheless, Slovenia sent a serious warning to Croatia. The team will have two days off before final preparations in Osijek. Both national teams were incomplete and missing players from the Bundesliga. In addition, Zvonimir Srna left Zagreb earlier in the…

ZAGREB, 29 December, 2021 - Members of the assembly of the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) on Wednesday made a decision on changing the network of HTZ offices abroad in 2022 with the aim to gradually expand communication and promotional activities in additional markets that have the potential for further growth. The decision primarily refers to the Ukrainian market, in which Croatia achieved excellent results this year. According to the HTZ, Ukrainians have generated about 860,000 overnights stays so far this year, which is an increase of 2% compared to the same period of the record year 2019. "Given the potential for further…

December 30, 2021 - A wonderful gesture by Split-Dalmatia County, which will welcome 1,300 Sisak-Moslavina County 4th graders to Dalmatia on holiday next summer! About 1,300 fourth-grade elementary school students from Sisak-Moslavina County will come to Central Dalmatia on holiday next summer! The agreement to organize summer vacations at the end of June and the beginning of July was signed by the Split-Dalmatia County prefect Blaženko Boban and his Sisak-Moslavina colleague Ivan Celjak, reports Dalmatinski Portal. Boban reminded everyone that Celjak, one of the youngest prefects, has been dealing with the tough job of reconstructing after the devastating earthquake destroyed Banovina…