Travel

June 19, 2020 - Tourism is on hold, but most of us 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 Šolta. 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 tourism businesses who are contacting us wanting to start thinking of promoting post-corona tourism. …

June 19, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split, Dubrovnik and Zadar.  Avio Radar reports that Polish national airline LOT Polish Airlines, a member of the Star Alliance global aircraft, will resume scheduled international air traffic from July 1. Among the first destinations are three stops in Croatia - Dubrovnik, Split and Zadar.  Zagreb and Rijeka are not on offer in the first 14 days of traffic. Pula was not planned this year or before the pandemic. The flight schedule is only valid from July 1 to 15.  For the latest…

Is there hope for Croatian tourism this season? Italian tourists are slowly trickling back into some of their favourite destinations in Croatia - Kvarner and Istria. Owners of accommodation facilities in those parts of Croatia claim that the bookings are looking promising indeed. As Novac/Barbara Ban writes on the 17th of June, 2020, Italian tourists have itchy feet as the better control of the coronavirus pandemic allows for a glimmer of hope. How do I come to have my teeth repaired at the dentist in Rovinj? Will you receive us in your apartment like you did last year? Are we…

May 20, 2020 - Tourism is on hold, but most of us 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 Jezera on Murter. 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 tourism businesses who are contacting us wanting to start thinking of promoting…

June 18, 2020 - The Tourist Board of Medjimurje County, in cooperation with Terme Sveti Martin and about 50 partners from the public and commercial sector, has launched a tourist campaign under the slogan "Medjimurje gives more!". Finally, a campaign focused on domestic guests! Namely, HRTurizam reports that the 'Medjimurje Gives More' campaign lasts from June 15 to September 15, 2020, and was launched to achieve the best possible tourist traffic in the coming months, which has been greatly reduced. The main idea of ​​the campaign is to offer the market a free bonus based on the realized consumption instead of…

June 18, 2020 - An interview with Hvar Tourist Board Director Petar Razovic on corona and the future direction of the island's tourism in one of Dalmatia's most beautiful buildings - the oldest public theatre in Europe.  I was in Hvar Town last week, helping with the logistics of the test trial of a rapid temperature check service developed by a company in Varazdin - a great tool in the battle against corona, which you can read about here.   I had already contacted Hvar Tourist Board director Petar Razovic, who was helping with the filming, and he agreed to a…

ZAGREB, June 17, 2020 - Croatia is a safe country and one of the few countries that will have a tourism season this year, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Davor Bozinovic said on Wednesday, adding that the more than 350,000 tourists had announced their arrival via the Enter Croatia system. "Croatia is perceived as a desirable country to come to for a vacation and at the moment it is probably the only country with announcements of foreign tourists arriving and with congestion at border crossings," Bozinovic said at the opening of a headquarters for the implementation of safety measures during the…

June 17, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik.  Croatian Aviation reports that well-known low-cost airline, Norwegian Air, which has so far operated to almost all airports in Croatia, announced it is resuming three routes to Split and Dubrovnik. The company previously canceled its only line to Rijeka, and currently, there are no announcements of traffic to Pula, Zadar, and Zagreb. The company thus today confirmed the establishment of three lines to Dubrovnik and Split. For the latest travel info, bookmark our main travel info article, which is updated…

June 17, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Pula, Zadar and Osijek.  Croatian Aviation reports that low-cost airline Transavia has announced its flight schedule for July, which includes as many as five destinations in Croatia. All lines to Croatia have been introduced from the beginning of July, although earlier announcements were somewhat different. 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…

As Novac/Privredni/Jozo Vrdoljak writes on the 15th of June, 2020, Trogir's Brown Beach House Hotel & Spa, which was created on the back of the reconstruction of the former Duhanka building, had one hundred percent occupancy for the recent extended weekend (with Tijelovo). According to the forecast of Stanka Karadzija, the director of the Brown Beach Hotel, it will also be full next weekend, when many guests will combine that particular weekend with the celebration of the Day of Anti-Fascist Struggle/Dan antifašističke borbe. ;;We reopened the hotel on June the 1st and since then we've recorded excellent occupancy given the situation,…