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July the 25th, 2020 - Some mixed messages have arrived on the coronavirus-dominated tourism front recently. The Netherlands quickly placed Croatia on its orange list, advising against all but essential travel and asking Dutch nationals to return from Croatia, followed by Germany firmly keeping the country on its ''safe list''.  Despite the Dutch Government asking its citizens to return home to begin their fourteen days of self-isolation and organising for travel agencies to secure return journeys home for those Dutch nationals using them, Dutch holidaymakers aren't that willing to listen. In fact, they've even gone as far as to launch…

July 25, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, and Zadar. Croatian AviationCroatian Aviation reports that Austrian Airlines has announced its flight schedule for August this year. It contains several operational changes on the lines to destinations in Croatia. The company will continue to operate to four Croatian airports in August; Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Zagreb. While the existing number of weekly flights to Dubrovnik and Split will be maintained, there will be some changes on the routes from Vienna to Zadar and Zagreb. The Vienna - Dubrovnik line…

July 25, 2020 - At the Split Airport and Ferry Port this weekend, which is the fourth weekend in July, excellent results are expected, which are significantly better than what we had hoped for in early June. Slobodna Dalmacija reports that after a great last weekend, about 50,000 passengers and 12,000 vehicles are expected at the ferry port by Monday, while 135 aircraft with about 25,000 passengers are expected at the airport this weekend. The upcoming weekend is the peak of the season, and passenger numbers are slowly but surely growing. "Last weekend was really good, a larger number of…

ZAGREB, July 24, 2020 -  A special edition of the Daily Mail's Check-in supplement focuses on Croatia, praising the country as a dream destination post-lockdown holiday, the Croatian National Tourism Board (HTZ) reported on Friday. The 12-page travel section highlighted all the main tourist attractions in Croatia which is depicted as a safe tourist destination. In early July, the British government decided that Britons returning from Croatia will not be required any more to self-isolate for 14 days. The HTZ director, Kristjan Stanicic, was quoted in the HTZ press release as saying that he now expected more intensive realisation of the tourist turnover from that…

ZAGREB, July 24, 2020 - The German Foreign Ministry on Thursday published a report in which it described Croatia as a safe destination, the Croatian Tourism Association (HUT) stated on Friday. Germans are the most numerous foreign tourists visiting Croatia. Year to date, Germans have generated four million overnight stays, including 2.5 million in the first 20 days of July. In the coming weeks, HUT expects a significant influx of holiday-makers from Bavaria where next week's summer school holidays start. HUT also underscores that there has been no information that any of the guests staying in Croatian commercial facilities for tourist accommodation…

July 24, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, and Pula.  Croatian Aviation reports that Qatar Airways has canceled flights on the Zagreb-Doha route until mid-August. There have been frequent cancellations on this line in recent weeks. Qatar Airways resumed traffic to Zagreb on July 1 this year, reconnecting Doha and Zagreb 3 times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) with the A320 aircraft. Due to reduced demand, the company has often canceled certain departures on this route since the beginning of re-operation, and now all flights on this line…

July 24, 2020 - National airline Croatia Airlines and leading Croatian passenger shipping company Jadrolinija have signed an agreement on business cooperation, on the basis of which they will try to improve Croatia's tourist offer further. HRTurizam reports that this cooperation aims to benefit from the advantages that both companies undoubtedly have as important participants in the Croatian transport scene, and thus offer Croatian citizens and tourists a unified service in the future, which will make Croatia even more accessible and its destinations more accessible. Thus, Croatia Airlines and Jadrolinija will jointly develop a platform through which passengers will be offered…

As the Dutch warn their citizens against all but essential travel to Croatia amid the coronavirus pandemic, Germany decides to keep Croatia on its ''safe'' list... As Index writes on the 23rd of July, 2020, after the Dutch placed Croatia on the orange list, which means that those who return home to the Netherlands from Croatia need to spend fourteen days in self-isolation, some good news has arrived from Germany. The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has kept Croatia on its list of safe countries, the Croatian Tourism Association announced. Below is their statement: "In the latest report published today…

ZAGREB, July 23, 2020 - Slovenia will not put Croatia for now on the red list of countries for which quarantine is mandatory, Slovenian Health Minister Tomaz Gantar said in Ljubljana on Thursday. For now "there is no initiative to declare Croatia a red zone," he told press. Decisions on putting countries on the red list are not made so fast and epidemiologists who follow the situation in neighbouring countries want these decisions to be agreed and that there is a joint response, Gantar said. It is good, he added, that Croatia has imposed new measures to contain the spread…

The epidemiological situation in Croatia has unfortunately worsened following a brief period of relative 'peace' from the virus. While the Dutch Government asks its citizens to go home, warns against all but essential travel to Croatia and organises for travel agencies to transport those who booked package holidays back to the Netherlands, trains to the Croatian Adriatic still remain wildly popular. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 22nd of July, 2020, despite the fact that in the meantime the epidemiological situation in Croatia has somewhat worsened, practically all of the trains coming to the Croatian Adriatic from abroad, more specifically…