Travel

ZAGREB, 27 August, 2022 - According to data from the eVistor system, this year Croatia has been visited by 14.4 million tourists who have generated 82.6 million overnight stays, which are increases of 42% and 28% respectively compared to 2021. The latest figures account for 90% of the arrivals and 96% of the overnight stays reported in 2019, which saw record-high tourism figures. The number of overnight stays so far has been the highest in Istria and Split-Dalmatia counties, Kvarner, and in Zadar and Dubrovnik-Neretva counties. Guests from Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland account for the largest number of overnight…

ZAGREB, 26 August, 2022 - The central events of the month-long salt festival in Ston on the island of Pelješac will be held this weekend. Thus tours of the saltworks and programmes about salt mining are on the agenda.  Visitors can enjoy traditional products and attend handicrafts fairs. They can taste local wines, honey and olive oil. "Wine, Salt & Jazz Night" event will be held on Friday. Also, the festival features 40 local vine growers, wineries, family farms, restaurants and taverns, and shellfish producers of the whole peninsula to enable visitors to enjoy delicious local dishes,  delicacies, and favorite wine Plavac…

August the 26th, 2022 - The British publications The Times and The Telegraph are rarely shy when it comes to expressing their love and admiration for Croatia, especially the beaches and the coastline. Croatia has made it onto their ''must visit'' destination list once again. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the widely read British publications The Times and The Telegraph have both published reports on Croatian beaches and islands as unmissable global tourist destinations, as was announced the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ/CNTB), adding that this was the result of the cooperation of the HTZ Representative Office in London with the editors and…

August 24, 2022 - The Biggest Croatian Fish Stew Day, Fishing Days, Wine Marathon, and World Fishing Championship. September in Baranja looks eventful. Over 15,000 visitors are expected. As Glas Slavonije writes, since the beginning of the year, more than 13,000 tourists visited Baranja, accounting for approximately 23,000 overnight stays. The results are significantly better than last year, reaching the level of the record 2019. A real tidal wave of arrivals and overnight stays is expected during September when several events will be held in Baranja that have recently become famous outside of the county borders. “Judging by the announcements, we…

August 23, 2022 - Looking for an example of a Croatian destination with a masterclass in combining heritage and tourism - meet the fortresses of Šibenik.   I often get asked for advice on tourist destinations in Croatia – and that is the easiest one for me to answer, as my top recommendation has not changed in 5 years since my first extensive visit - Šibenik! You can read about my fabulous day in 2017 when the whole family was stunned by the city's magnificence and offer in Croatia's Most Underrated Destination? Stunning Fortress Šibenik Has It All. The Šibenik fortresses were truly an…

August 21, 2022 – In TCN’s new series, Discover the Croatian Danube, we explore the little villages that lie on the banks of this mighty river. We started from the point where the river Drava “surrounds its water and name to the Danube”, in a small fishing village called Aljmaš. If anything, you might know that Aljmaš is a Marian shrine with a big modern church and that it’s somewhere in Slavonia (could be Baranja?). There is a lot more to these few streets that make the village. A very long and rich history in a geographically important and interesting…

August 23, 2022 - What happens when a teenage girl from Kazakhstan comes to Split? Meet Picigin, the sport that stopped her in her tracks.  As summer continues in great spirit and beaches around the Croatian coast are as active as ever, it is very likely that you will spot an indigenous game, ‘Picigin’ being played amongst locals. Having recently visited Split, it was a pleasant surprise to see several groups of people jumping around the shallow waters to keep a ball in play. Developing an interest in the game, I had explored multiple articles surfacing around the internet –…

August the 23rd, 2022 - The Croatian ferry company Jadrolinija is edging ever closer to the record numbers it and we all saw back during the pre-pandemic year of 2019, having transported 1.1 million passengers during the month of August so far alone. As Morski/Alenka Juricic Bukarica writes, this year's tourist season, in terms of physical indicators, is coming extremely close to the eye-watering figures we saw back during the record year of 2019, and therefore the traffic in passenger ship transport is also returning, writes Rijeka portal Novi list. As such, from the beginning of the year to August…

August 22, 2022 - The trend that saw continuous growth before the pandemic, river cruises, seems to be coming back in style. From this year, all Croatian river tourism piers will welcome guests with a uniform visual identity. As SiB writes, from this summer going forward, Croatian river piers will have a common visual identity. A logo, six identical masts, and seven flags were created for the Danube ports of Aljmaš, Batina, Vukovar and Ilok, the Drava port in Osijek, and the Sava ports in Slavonski Brod and Sisak. The project is worth slightly less than HRK 92,000 and was…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 -  A new cultural and tourist attraction "Sit&Meet – Path of Croatian Greats" has enriched downtown Zagreb with sculptures of 13 of the most significant and popular Croatian greats, created by prominent Croatian and foreign sculptors, the project's organisers said on Monday. Thirteen interactive sculptures of Faust Vrančić, Slavoljub Penkala, Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Nikola Tesla, Marko Polo, Ivan Meštrović, Ruđer Bošković, Dražen Petrović, Marin Getaldić, Milka Trnina, Ivan Vučetić, Andrija Mohorovičić and Josip Belušić are exhibited around downtown Zagreb. Those interested can learn about the lives and works of those mentioned inventors, scientists political leaders, artists, and athletes on a guided short…