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April 21, 2020 -  The Split Tourist Board has launched a video campaign to inspire future tourists. Introducing 'Together in Split'! We were delighted to announce a new video campaign by the Split Tourist Board, which was published on the VisitSplit Facebook page today. This video is an introduction to the #TogetherInSplit campaign created by a small team of members of the Split Tourist Board, led by director Alijan Vukšić, who was asked about the campaign and its expectations for the season.    A press release from the Split Tourist Board director: "'Together in Split' is the name of a campaign…

April 21, 2020 - Hvar is blessed with beauty, nature, heritage and gourmet treasures, as well as the best view in Dalmatia. Now learn what you can discover in this view. Reporting on the corona crisis has been a stimulating but very intense experience in the last couple of months, and I am not sure I would have survived without the great team at TCN. Having one nothing but work, work, work for as long as I can remember, I managed to take a half-day off on Sunday and went off to explore some parts of the beautiful island of…

April 21, 2020- The coronavirus pandemic is causing significant damage to all segments of the Croatian economy, with the tourism sector among the most affected. For tourist boats in Dalmatia, this year will be especially tough. Dalmatinski Portal writes that in proportion to the number of new ships on the market, the number of passengers in the traffic of tourist boats increased from year to year, and according to the data of the port of Split, the third-largest in the Mediterranean, the number of passengers increased by 20% last year. This growth was expected this year, when an estimated 15…

April 20, 2020 - Josko Stella, the director of the Split-Dalmatia County Tourist Board, was a guest of N1 television, where he spoke about how tourism is affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and whether prices would be reduced for domestic tourists on the coast this year. Stella said that they've already been hit hard, but not so much considering it is still the preseason. "That real hit is yet to come," he reckons. He points out that they expect that a bigger tourist influx could occur in August. "Of course, there may or may not be a tourist season. Our Government and…

ZAGREB, April 20, 2020 - Findings of a survey conducted between 6 and 9 April show that the current COVID-19 epidemic has not yet marred Austrians' plans to spend summer holidays in Croatia, the Jutarnji List daily said on Monday. The findings of the survey conducted by the entrepreneurial advisory firm BlueRock and the Improve group specialised in the market research show that two thirds of the Austrians still stick to their plans to go on holidays abroad Also 47% of those polled say that they will definitely go on holidays if the situation with the coronavirus infection changes for…

April 19, 2020 - How to respond to corona on the outside, earthquakes on the inside and economic collapse all around if you are in the tourism business? Respect to the Zagreb Tourist Board and their new online campaign. This is a period of our lives that none of us will ever forget. A period with such seismic change and total shock for all of us, where we are coming to terms that things will never be quite the same. In terms of shocks and the embedded memory, it is up there with 9/11, the 2008 crash and (for some…

April 19, 2020 - Croatian Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli talks about what Croatian tourism can expect this year and the measures in place to save the country's tourism industry.  Tourism was the first to be hit by the coronavirus crisis. At the moment, everyone's primary goal is to survive. Whether or not there will be tourism, no one dares to forecast at the moment. However, some measures and instructions have been announced to restart business activity. In doing so, expectations are primarily on domestic guests.  Croatian Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli explains further in an interview with Novi List, with excerpts…

April. 19, 2020 - Will there be any tourism this summer? This is the golden question being asked not only in Croatia, but also in the rest of Europe. However, according to the first signs, Croatia could profit as an auto-destination thanks to its proximity to central Europe. "This tourist summer will certainly be completely different from everything we've known so far," says the president of the Alliance of German Tour Operators, Norbert Fiebig, in an interview with Tagesspiegel. He predicts that unless travel restrictions are lifted, many will be spending this summer at one of Germany's tourist centers, Deutsche Welle…

April 19, 2020 - The ferry line from Zadar to Ancona, which was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, will resume operations from April 26, twice a week. HRTurizam reports that this is a result of the initiative of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, based on proposals from member companies and in cooperation with the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure and Jadrolinija, the Croatian Chamber of Economy pointed out. A closer examination of the interests carried out by the Croatian Chamber of Commerce showed that more than 30 road freight companies are seeking the return of the ferry…

April 19, 2020 - A visit to the Hvar ferry terminal to see how it functions in the Corona Era in the latest TCN report on Croatia's premier island under lockdown. The birthplace of quarantine has bee accredited to Dubrovnik in some quarters, after the Republic of Ragusa, as it was then called, introduced the isolation strategy to nearby islands back in 1377 - more information in Croatia Self-Isolating Since 1377: Dubrovnik, the Birthplace of Quarantine. So where better to sit out the current corona threat than on a Dalmatian island? I have been back on Hvar for over a month…