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July 2, 2020 - After weeks of discussion about air bridges, The Daily Telegraph reports that UK flights to Croatia without quarantine are about to start.  After months of lockdown, it seems that Summer is finally here for the Brits. In addition to the pubs reopening on July 4, The Daily Telegraph reports that no less than 75 destinations will be open for travel for Brits, without the need to self-isolate for 14 days on return.  According to The Telegraph, the official list will be published on Thursday or Friday - and it will include Croatia: The UK’s rate of…

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 2, 2020 - Can Americans visit Croatia after the latest EU borders update on July 1? Feedback from the Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community provides some answers from actual travellers yesterday.  After weeks of uncertainty in this most uncertain of times, some clarity is emerging on the most common question…

July 1, 2020 - Tourism was on hold when we started this series of articles, but most of us still have plenty of time. So let's look at the virtual resources available to explore Croatia virtually. We continue our new Virtual Croatia series with the tools to discover Gradac, the southernmost Riviera in Split-Dalmatia County. A few weeks ago I wrote that being a tourism blogger in the corona era was about as useful as being a cocktail barman in Saudi Arabia. I feel less useless now, a few weeks later, and I am encouraged by the number of Croatian…

July 1, 2020 - There are currently 644 hotels and 344 camps open in Croatia, other tourist facilities are opening daily along the coast, and the number of tourists is increasing by about 30,000 a day, says the Croatian Tourism Association (HUT). Slobodnna Dalmacija reports that introducing the news with the headline "Security Before Everything", this and other information and news for tourists, tourism and other sectors were published by HUT in the fifth issue of the bulletin "Croatia Tourism & Travel Weekly" (in Croatian and English). HUT emphasized that by July 1 (the issue date of the bulletin), none…

July 1, 2020 - The Croatian National Tourist Board announced the latest tourist numbers for the first six months of 2020, which show that Croatia has achieved 30% of last year's tourist traffic. In June this year, 892,000 tourists who came to Croatia realized 4.8 million overnight stays, which is 32 percent of the overnight stays realized in June 2019. This shows that in June and across the first six months this year, overnight stays have dropped about 70 percent, announces the Croatian National Tourist Board. "Given the circumstances around the world and in Croatia, we can be satisfied with…

July 1, 2020 - The Croatian Government's official Koronavirus.hr website issued some official travel updates yesterday. Please find it below in full.  As of midnight, all EU/EEA nationals and persons with permanent residence in EU/EEA country can enter Croatia freely, without restrictions. All travellers are, however, advised to fill out the form on the ENTERCROATIA web-page.  The EU Council today adopted a recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU. Travel restrictions should be lifted for countries listed in the recommendation, with this list being reviewed and, as the case may be, updated every two weeks.As…

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has thrown the spanner of all spanners in the works for global tourism and Croatia, for which tourism is the strongest economic branch, has been anything but immune to these pandemic-induced, extremely negative trends. Istria, however, is recovering at a remarkably enviable rate. As Novac writes on the 30th of June, 2020, Istria has recorded some truly encouraging and excellent tourist results for last weekend. Namely, from June the 26th to the 28th, only 6 percent fewer tourists were recorded in Istria than during the same days last year, long before coronavirus was ever an issue one…

July 1, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split, Dubrovnik, and Zadar. Croatian Aviation reports that Dubrovnik and Split airports are recording more airline announcements for July this year, as the flight schedule of three airlines, Iberia, Windrose and Finnair, has been announced.  Spain's Iberia will return to Dubrovnik Airport with a regular flight from Madrid. The company will launch the Madrid-Dubrovnik route from Friday, July 3, with flights every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A319 / 320/321 aircraft have been announced on the route. For the latest travel info, bookmark our…

July 17, 2020 Update: the EU has updated their list of safe third countries. Please find the updated list here.    30 June, 2020 - As was expected, the Council of the European Union adopted a recommendation on the lifting of the ban on non-essential travel into the EU, and created a list of 15 "safe" third countries.  Travel restrictions should be lifted for countries listed in the recommendation, with this list being reviewed and, as the case may be, updated every two weeks. The initial list, valid from July 1st, includes the following countries:  Algeria Australia Canada Georgia Japan…

ZAGREB, June 30, 2020 - EU member states will on Wednesday open their borders to 15 countries, including Serbia and Montenegro, while Croatia has added Bosnia and Herzegovina, Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said on Tuesday, adding that there were fewer new cases of COVID-19 in Bosnia than in Serbia and the decision is in Croatia's economics interest. Bozinovic assessed that this is not a political decision related to the coming election but that it is in the interest of the Croatian economy. He said that the final recommendation from Brussels is still pending. "We do not expect any additional problems due…