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July 5, 2020 - The Croatian media has started to take an interest in the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community. An interview with one of its founders by Netokracija. The TCN Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community is attracting the interest of the Croatian media. I am very grateful to Mia Biberovic, Editor-in-Chief of Netokracija for the interview opportunity. English version below - original version in Croatian here.  What kind of information is the most interesting for foreigners? The really simple things such as can I come to Croatia? The lack of transparent information is breathtaking for an industry…

July 5, 2020 - TCN interview with Dubrovacki Vjesnik about tourism in Dubrovnik, an incredible destination with incredibly bad tourism. Time to refocus? I had an email from Lorita Vierda recently, a journalist from Dubrovacki Vjesnik, which resulted in an interview which was published yesterday - you can see the Croatian version here. Below, the English version.  First of all, your name has been popping up almost every day, especially when it comes to the crisis, tourism and possible solutions for survival. Why is that? Doesn't Croatia have like a million experts in those matters, that we citizens pay to give us direction,…

Veljko Ostojic, the director of the Croatian Tourism Association, sat down to discuss the numbers in southern Croatia, the home of the country's tourist Mecca - Dubrovnik, as well as other popular Dalmatian locations that usually have no issues when it comes to pulling in tourists en masse. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc with global tourism and Croatia, which relies heavily on the tourism industry which makes up as much as 20 percent of its GDP is far from immune to the extremely negative trends the pandemic has and continues to cause.  When looking at the numbers…

July 5, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split and Dubrovnik. Croatian Aviation reports that Spanish low-cost airline Vueling has announced the start of traffic to two destinations in Croatia - Split and Dubrovnik. This well-known low-budget company operates from four Croatian airports: Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Zagreb, and will launch lines to the Croatian coast next week. For the latest travel info, bookmark our main travel info article, which is updated daily.  Read the Croatian Travel Update in your language - now available in 24 languages Join the Total Croatia…

July 5, 2020 - There are currently 354,000 tourists in Croatia - and almost 40,000 tourists enter the country daily.  The Tourist Board Directors of Istria and Split-Dalmatia County comment on the current situation. Dalmacija Danas reports that most tourists in Croatia are in Istria, then Kvarner, while tourists in the south are still hard to come by, as they mostly arrive by air. But even that should change soon, given the larger number of airlines announced in July.  Joško Stella, director of the Split-Dalmatia County Tourist Board, and Denis Ivošević, director of the Istria Tourist Board, spoke about the…

July 5, 2020 - After the City of Novalja prohibited music festivals from Croatia's most well-known party beach, Zrce is vacant, with only 30 beachgoers counted on July 1.  It was the first day of July. The temperature was above 30, the sun was scorching, and the sea crystal clear. An endless row of deckchairs were neatly arranged with a carefully measured distance, and club music could be heard in the background from one of the bars. It is a perfect backdrop for a good time. Only there are no people. Jutarnji List reports that Zrce beach in Novalja, a…

The Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) has earmarked funds for the promotion of the now somewhat (in)famous Cro card, and as soon as it receives the green light from the ministry, it will start promoting it, Stanicic said, adding that he hopes that will take place in the coming weeks. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 3rd of July, 2020, according to eVisitor, about 330,000 tourists were on holiday in Croatia on the 3rd of this month, which is about 60 percent of the amount which was recorded the same day last year, and most of them are staying in…

July 4, 2020 - The Enter Croatia border crossing form is Croatian bureaucracy's 2020 hit. And it just got better.  When was the last time you read an article which said that Croatian bureaucracy rocks? Because THIS Croatian bureaucracy rocks.  For the latest travel info, bookmark our main travel info article, which is updated daily.  Read the Croatian Travel Update in your language - now available in 24 languages Join the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community. The Netherlands - as of July 21, Croatia is placed on the "Orange" list by the Dutch government, which means that both the…

July 4, 2020 -  Tourists are coming back to Split, as the Airport anticipates around 10,000 passengers this weekend.  Split Airport is recording its first major traffic since the corona crisis. This weekend, 100 planes and more than 10 thousand passengers are expected in Resnik, Dalmatinski Portal has learned from Mate Melvan, the head of the Reception and Dispatch Service. "The figures show that the heart of the season has begun. It will, of course, be different than we are used to. We expect 20-25 percent less traffic in July compared to the same month last year," says Melvan. Currently,…

July 4, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Rijeka and Brac.  Croatian Aviation reports that Croatia Airlines has announced a modified flight schedule for July, in which, from the middle of this month, it will introduce two more routes from Zagreb, to Athens and Skopje.  The long-running seasonal line between Zagreb and Athens will be in operation again from July 14 with three flights per week, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. As before, the line will operate with a stop in Dubrovnik (ZAG-DBV-ATH), and with a DashQ400 aircraft…