Travel

February the 26th, 2021 - With pandemic-dominated 2020 now behind us, preparations for 2021's tourist season are underway in equally precarious and unstable circumstances. Is Croatian charter tourism something that much more focus should be placed on this year? As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the solution for re-launching air transport in 2021, with which many companies will still have financial and logistical problems with the introduction of scheduled and even low-cost flights, could be charter flights, a concept that Croatia has never adopted unlike its competitors in the Mediterranean. Although guests who can arrive in the country by car are…

February 26, 2021 - The innovative Croatian museum revolution continues. Meet Museum of Senses, born in Croatia, but expanding globally through franchise and partnership. As a child, I visited a lot of museums. They were places of awe, wonder and inspiration. Places where I learned things, but also places where I always had a feeling that they were really for adults. Museums in the era when I grew up were places that you could look, admire and wonder.   But not touch. Look but not really experience. How the world of museums has changed. As a father going to modern…

February 26, 2021 - Smartwings flights from Prague to Split and Dubrovnik will operate this summer!  Croatian Aviation reports that the Czech low-cost airline Smartwings has announced two routes to Croatia in the upcoming summer flight schedule. Namely, Smartwings plans to connect Prague with Split and Dubrovnik this summer. In 2020, the company operated between Prague and Split, while the line to Dubrovnik was suspended for obvious reasons. In the 2021 summer flight schedule, the company plans to resume traffic to both mentioned destinations later than in 2019.  The Prague-Split-Prague line will operate from May 1, once a week, every…

February 26, 2021 - A Dutch entrepreneur in Split is spearheading an incredible PR campaign for Croatian tourism as a volunteer. Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Accidental Tourism.  Two different approaches to tourism promotion in Croatia.  In the first, a successful entrepreneur from Holland who has been living in Split since 2006. With no connection to tourism whatsoever, he was intrigued by the concept of a digital nomad visa for Croatia and the benefits it could bring. An open letter on LinkedIn to Prime Minister Plenkovic started a journey which saw Croatian bureaucracy move at lightning speed, with the first…

February 25, 2021 - Stay Safe in Croatia is the new national safety label by the Ministry of Tourism and the Croatian National Tourist Board. HRTurizam reports that the application of safety and health protocols and the vaccination of tourism workers will certainly be an important element of Croatia's perception as a safe destination. To this end, the Ministry of Tourism and the Croatian National Tourist Board presented the national safety label - Safe Stay in Croatia. In addition to the already well-known World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) label Safe Travels, a national label named 'Safe Stay in Croatia'…

February 25, 2021 - Summer is well on its way, with the announcement of Aeroflot flights to Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, and maybe Pula! Croatian Aviation reports that Russian national airline Aeroflot plans to resume traffic to Croatia at the end of April. Russian airline Aeroflot suspended traffic to Croatia in the spring of 2020 and has not operated on regular flights to Croatian airports since. However, in the summer of 2021, the company plans to return to Croatia, with the announcement of a new route to boot.  The company currently plans to resume traffic on the Moscow-Zagreb-Moscow line from Thursday,…

February 25, 2021 - Bookings for Dubrovnik explode after Boris Johnson's plan to end restrictions by June 21.  Jutarnji List reports that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement that England is finally moving towards easing measures had a tremendous effect on tourism. According to British and world media, the world's largest travel company TUI recorded an increase in bookings from the British market by as much as 600 percent compared to previous days. Good numbers are coming from other companies. EasyJet, for example, says that demands from the British market have tripled, and Thomas Cook is recording a 75 percent…

February 24, 2021 – TCN recently interviewed Josipa and Matija on their 1,100 kilometers long journey, and now this Croatian couple completed the Via Adriatica trail with success... but not without the headache of the demanding Croatian mountain regions and changeable and unpredictable weather conditions. Josipa and Matija set off on the Via Adriatica trail on January 1, 2021, starting from Prevlaka, the southermost peninsula in Croatia. The last time we talked to them was one month ago when they were at Svilaja mountain, not even half of their journey. Yesterday, after 54 sunny, rainy, snowy, foggy, and windy days,…

February 24, 2021 - While some airlines are pushing back the start of their summer flight schedules to Croatia, two airlines have stayed loyal to the country, even during the toughest times. A look at how Air France and KLM remain dominant in the Croatian market since the beginning of the pandemic.  Croatian Aviation reports that following yesterday's article about airlines that have temporarily postponed traffic to Croatian airports, there are two that stand out that have regularly connected Zagreb with two European hubs since the outbreak of the global pandemic. Before the pandemic, the Lufthansa group was dominant in…

February the 24th, 2021 - Croatia has long been tied to the post as a ''sunshine and sea'' destination, taking its place next to the likes of Spain, Greece and other similar countries. With so many other things to boast of and an all but undiscovered continental and Eastern part of the country, does Croatia have a chance to finally break free of that very limiting categorisation? Katarina Milicevic believes so. As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatia was experiencing tourist stagnation even before the ongoing coronavirus pandemic struck back in early 2020, because it got stuck rolling around in the cage…