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November 2, 2021 - The Croatia handball European Championship prep began on Monday in Poreč. The European Champs will be held in January 2022. For the first time since the summer, the Croatia men's senior national handball team gathered in Zagreb. After quickly socializing with the media and testing, the national team traveled to Poreč where they will stay and train for the next seven days. As part of these preparations, which are actually the beginning of preparations for next year's European Championship in Slovakia and Hungary, a friendly match will be played against Slovenia, on November 6 at 18:00…

November 1, 2021 - The Jelsa bench is probably the most famous in all Dalmatia, very much on the digital nomad trail, but sadly a shadow of what it once was.  A Dalmatian friend in luxury tourism once described the moment he understood his market and the opportunity completely.  In an olive grove and an olive oil tasting and lunch for wealthy New York clients, one of them marvelled at the fresh lemons on a nearby tree. "Do you think I might pick one of those lemons," he asked my friend after he noticed my friend watching him. A lemon…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - Climate change must become the main political topic, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said at a UN conference on climate change in Glasgow on Monday. The two-week COP26 conference brought together 120 state leaders expected to agree on new initiatives on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing down the temperature increase. "This must become one of our main political topics," Plenković said, adding that Croatia "is not a problem" because it has the fourth-lowest harmful gas emissions per capita in Europe. "The problem is the big countries whose industry, traffic, and agriculture contribute a lot to…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - The Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) is presenting Croatian tourism at the World Travel Market in London in person from 1 to 3 November and online on the 8th and the 9th, the HTZ said on Monday. On the first day of the event, HTZ director Kristjan Staničić met with representatives of easyJet, TUI, SAGA, Jet2.com & Jet2Holidays, Globetrotter TV, National Geographic, and Wanderlust. Staničić said Jet2.com and TUI brought the largest number of British tourists to Croatia and that Jet2.com's "announcements for next year are excellent." "For next year our partners are announcing a rise in demand for Croatia and…

November 2, 2021 - The region of Kvarner has a rich medical tourism history and has been described as 'the healing garden of Europe.' Ahead of the 9th Crikvenica International Health Travel conference, which starts on November 4, TCN catches up with the dynamic President of the Kvarner Health Tourism Cluster, Vladimir, Mozetic. As previously reported on TCN, CIHT 2021 kicks off tomorrow at Hotel Katarina in Selce. One of the most important and prestigious health tourism conferences in the region, CIHT 2021 is the 9th edition of the conference, which is co-organised by Kvarner Health Tourism Cluster. TCN caught…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - The Defence Ministry said on Monday that in March it prevented an international scandal involving the participation of the Honorary and Protection Battalion in a commemoration in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ministry said in a press release that on 17 March President Zoran Milanović's office informed the military Chief-Of-Staff, Admiral Robert Hranj, that the president's advisor Marijan Mareković would be his envoy at an event marking the 27th anniversary of the exchange of prisoners of war in Bugojno, BiH. The president's office also made it known that, under the president's decision, members of the Honorary and Protection Battalion would also…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - Zagreb was the third city in the world with the highest air pollution on Monday, according to the Swiss IQAir website, which publishes global data on air quality. Lahore, Pakistan was the city with the most polluted air, with an air quality index of 264, followed by Delhi, India with an air quality index of 198, and Zagreb was third with an air quality index of 183. Traffic, industry, the heating season, and fog contribute to air pollution. "Yes, traffic and industry affect the increase of pollution. But the heating season does too. And the weather…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - Croatia's industrial turnover in August 2021 rose by 22.5% on the year and by 3.2% on the month, according to data by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. In August 2021, the seasonally adjusted industrial turnover increased by 22.3% on the domestic market and by 24.1% on the non-domestic market, compared to August 2020. In terms of main industrial groupings, in August, the highest year-on-year increase, of 43%, was recorded in energy sales. Sales of capital goods rose by 25.2%, intermediate goods by 22.1%, consumer non-durables by 18.7%, and consumer durables by 13.3%. Industrial turnover has…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - A total of HRK 4.7 billion was spent on research and development (R&D) in Croatia in 2020, which is 6% more than in 2019, and there were 25,217 persons employed in R&D, which is 5.7% more than in 2019, show data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Of the total funds for R&D, the largest amount was spent in the business sector, 47.9% or HRK 2.3 billion, followed by higher education with 32.2% or HRK 1.5 billion, while the least was spent in the government and private non-profit sector, 19.9% or HRK 941.9 million. Labour…

ZAGREB, 1 Nov 2021 - Over the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 1,126 new cases of coronavirus infection and 31 related deaths, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Monday. The number of active cases today stands at 22,884, including 1,496 COVID patients in hospitals, 183 of whom are on ventilators. There are currently 29,240 people in self-isolation. Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia registered its first case of the infection, a total of 471,474 people have been registered as having contracted the novel coronavirus, 9,251 of them have died, while 439,339 have recovered, including 3,349 who have…