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June 21st, 2021 -  The Croatian Tourism Board (HTZ) has launched cooperation with leading global travel platforms and specialized travel media Lonely Planet and Culture Trip to provide the latest information on Croatian holiday destinations and tourism services in eight European markets. "Cooperation with such important global travel platforms, which are followed by nearly 20 million unique visitors a month, is important in promoting Croatian tourism and travel destinations. This will give us additional visibility in key European markets from which we expect the largest number of visitors this year," HTZ director Kristjan Staničić said in a statement on Monday. Cooperation…

June 21st, 2021 - Croatia has registered 11 new coronavirus cases and eight COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus crisis management team reported on Monday. The number of active cases currently stands at 535, of whom 282 are hospitalized, and 19 of them are on ventilators. A total of 4,129 people are self-isolating. Since late February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 2,112,159 people have been tested for the novel virus, including 1,674 in the last 24 hours. To date, 359,184 persons have been registered as having contracted the virus, of whom 8,182…

June 21st, 2021 - The deputy leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Siniša Hajdaš Dončić, and the head of the Alliance of Antifascist Fighters and Antifascists (SABA), Franjo Habulin, have welcomed Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's decision to attend the commemoration of Antifascist Struggle Day on Tuesday. "I haven't seen him there for the past six or seven years. We'll see whether there will be a specific discourse of the ruling party concerning the legacy of antifascism in Croatia, which we must foster because it was because of the antifascist movement that Croatia ended up on the right side after the…

June 21, 2021 - Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina will meet in the EuroBasket Women 2021 quarter-final qualifying match tonight at 18:00! In the most important group stage match at the European Women's Basketball Championship, Croatia defeated the Czech Republic 84-56 in Strasbourg on Sunday and will play the qualifying match for the quarterfinals, where they will meet the national team of Bosnia & Herzegovina, reports HKS. After the initial test of strength, Croatia took the lead 27-17 on the wings of the playful trio Dojkić - Slonjšak - Tikvić. In the final 50 seconds of the first quarter, the Czechs…

June 21st, 2021 - Forests covered about 2.75 million hectares of land in Croatia in 2020, which is nearly the same as in 2019, and a total of 5.2 million cubic meters of wood was produced, with wood production down by 3.1%, according to data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics (DZS). The total amount of coniferous trees cut down last year was 876,000 cubic meters, down by 9.2% from the previous year, while the logging of deciduous forests fell by 1.7% to 4.36 million cubic meters. Fuelwood production, including wood for charcoal, increased by 0.1% to 2.2 million cubic…

June 21st, 2021 - HAKOM reports, in Q1 2021, a total of 4.3 million users spent 2.8 billion minutes on mobile networks in Croatia, which is a 6% increase year-on-year, and when it comes to the use of electronic communications, traffic across all broadband access technologies increased the most, by 54%, to 624.3 million gigabytes. This is shown by market data from the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM). "Internet traffic rose by 26.5% on the year. We talked much more on mobile phones, and total revenue in the electronic communications market went up by 3.3%," HAKOM said. Continued decline…

June the 21st, 2021 - Teenlifting, a Croatian anti-aging method, is gaining when it comes to recognition in the often demanding and challenging world of beauty. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, Dr. Sanja Malbasa Gosovic is the founder of the Teenlifting centre. 30 years ago, she devised a unique method of rejuvenation and improvement of health through muscle electrostimulation, expanding it through a franchise around the world. The Teenlifting brand is protected in Croatia, the EU, China, the USA, Switzerland, Great Britain, countries in Croatia's immediate region, and this method was named one of the six best natural non-invasive cosmetic methods…

June the 21st, 2021 - We travelled from Zagreb down to Split and across to Brac on Saturday. I won't hesitate in saying that I'm in no particular rush to do it again after such bad timing during that day which saw two hours pass before we even reached Karlovac. Such queues are also evident at the Croatian land borders as tourists finally flock back into the country. As Morski writes, the tourist season in Croatia is finally heating up, and so is the weather with extreme high temperature warnings pinging regularly on mobile weather apps. According to e-Visitor, there…

June the 21st, 2021 - The Lastovo - Island of Stars/Otok Zvijezda project is being revived once again, with the first activities beginning last week. As Dorian Bozicevic/Morski writes, back at the beginning of this year, an initiative was launched to revive the "Lastovo - Island of Stars" project, and at the invitation of the Lastovo Tourist Board, cooperation with the Croatian Astronomical Union began. Astronomical workshops for elementary school students The Secretary General of the Croatian Astronomical Association held a full-day astronomy programme for elementary school students in Lastovo through two workshops and observations, one on the sun and…

June the 21st, 2021 - Croatian stagnation has once again been forced out into the limelight as the latest competitiveness ranking highlights the country's multitude of shortcomings.  As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ana Blaskovic writes, the second title, and the same action: the global competitiveness scale run by the Institute for Business Development Development (IMD) from Lausanne, Switzerland for 2021, shows the same as a wide range of others - Croatian stagnation in terms of competitiveness. Croatia is ranked an embarrassing 59th in the competition of 64 countries, and all other member states of the European Union (EU) have better results. The moves…