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Update (July 11, 2020): While all of these were true when this article was written, a major change took place on July 10, when the new rules for entering Croatia were introduced. Please follow the article about those changes to get the latest information, as it becomes available.    July 4, 2020 - Croatia is open for tourists from North America, and as these real-life experiences from the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community show, paperwork and persistence will see you board the plane.  How confused are you at the moment regarding the travel rules to Croatia? Green zones, yellow…

ZAGREB, July 3, 2020 - The state-owned shipping company Jadrolinija on Friday put in operation a new ferry between Zadar and the nearby island of Ugljan, a project worth €3 million. The ferry, made in Greece in 2009, can carry 650 passengers and 114 vehicles. It is the first of three such vessels that Jadrolinija plans to put in operation this year. Jadrolinija has had very good business results in the last three years and has invested all its profit in upgrading its fleet as the company's strategic goal, CEO David Sopta said at a ceremony in Zadar's port of Gazenica.…

July 3, 2020 - Croatian police have announced some interesting breaking news on how to enter Croatia on their Twitter feed.  Važna obavijest‼️ Kako bi skratili vrijeme prelaska preko državne granice i omogućili bolju protočnost, na graničnim prijelazima poput Bregane, Macelja, Rupe i Plovanije, obilježene su posebne trake koje će moći koristiti putnici najavljeni putem sustava Enter Croatia ?️ ? pic.twitter.com/dSuLpRMFfn — MUP-RH (@mup_rh) July 3, 2020 In English, what they're announcing is that they've installed special lanes for easier entry into Croatia for those who have used the Enter Croatia system, and filled out the border entry forms there. Those…

July 3, 2020 - The latest from the Croatian Ministry of Tourism on the CRO cards project. Index.hr reports that although the CRO card was supposed to launch on July 1, we still do not know which employers ordered it for their workers. Two years after hearing Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli's statements about the CRO cards and that they will provide between 10 and 21 thousand new jobs and up to 11 billion kuna in new investments, the culmination of the project is seen in yesterday's statement by the Ministry of Tourism spokesperson, Sladjana Vignjevic, who told Index that they…

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen many a business venture and investment grind to an unexpected halt, especially in the tourism sector which has been the hardest hit economic activity in Croatia. However, the virus and its spread hasn't stopped everything, and Brac will get something new this summer regardless of the current climate. As Jozo Vrdoljak/Novac/Privredni writes on the 2nd of July, 2020, Boutique Camping Bunja was recently opened in Babin Laz Bay near Supetar on the beautiful island of Brac in Central Dalmatia. Supetar will thus, adapting to the current trends of solitary holidays, have a small four-star…

ZAGREB, July 2, 2020 - Six million passengers entered Croatia in June, which is 40% less than for the same month last year, Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic informed on Thursday. In May, 2.13 million entries into Croatia were recorded and in June that number as 6.6 million, which is an increase of 210%, Bozinovic specified during the cabinet meeting adding that the trend was on the rise and that it can be attributed to the relaxation of lockdown measures. Enter Croatia app - 90% of tourist announcements Bozinovic underscored that in May entry into Croatia was made possible for citizens of 10 EU member…

July 2, 2020 - American Airlines has announced that it has canceled its Dubrovnik service indefinitely due to the impact of COVID-19.  Croatian Aviation reports that after the American Airlines route between Philadelphia and Dubrovnik was completely canceled for this summer season due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced in its latest statement that it no longer intends to resume the service. Recall that the Philadelphia - Dubrovnik line was introduced in the summer of 2019, and operated from the beginning of June to the end of September three times a week, while in September the…

ZAGREB, July 2, 2020 - The world’s tourism sector could lose at least $1.2 trillion, or 1.5% of the global GDP, due to a standstill of nearly four months caused by the coronavirus pandemic, UNCTAD says in its latest report, and Croatia is among the countries whose GDP might suffer the most from tourism losses. In the report, published on 1 July, the UN body on trade and development addresses the economic fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic, estimating losses in three scenarios, depending on the duration of the break-in international tourism - of four, eight and 12 months. The loss could rise…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 1st of July, 2020, Reuters (and TCN) writes that more than 30,000 tickets have been sold for the Prague-Rijeka train, and the line will run until September. They also note that the direct train line was cancelled two years ago because it wasn't profitable. Reuters recently published an article about the arrival of thousands of Czechs who arrived to the Adriatic coast by train following a 15-hour ride. Thousands of Czechs have bought train tickets to Croatia, Reuters writes in an article about the Czechs' arrival in Croatia, who, as this publication writes, arrived in…

July 2, 2020 - As locals complain of Hvar Town hosting just 66 guests, why Croatian tourism strategy makes that inevitable.  There was an interesting report in Slobodna Dalmacija the other day on the quietness of the season in Hvar Town - just 66 registered guests.  Corona is the main reason, of course, but it is worth taking a closer look at what is happening, and how the complete lack of any tourism strategy is making a terrible situation so much worse.  Slobodna says that at the same time last year, there were 4,588 guests, a sizable difference. Now let's…