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Kvarner's tourist traffic numbers continue their upward trajectory. The Kvarner region, located in Northwestern Croatia, finished 2019 with 3.1 million arrivals and 19.1 million overnight stays. Compared to 2018, there were 2% more arrivals and 1% more overnights. Overnights also increased by 3% compared to 2017, 13% compared to 2016 and 50% compared to 2010. During peak season, overnight stays remained at last year's levels, with an average occupancy of 25 days, and 30 days at hotels. That means that there wasn't a lot of room for growth during the the busiest season of the year, according to MorskiHR on…

ZAGREB, January 8, 2020 - During 2019, as many as 140,000 tourists visited Zagreb County and made 230,000 overnight stays, which was a 14% and a 12% annual rise respectively, according to figures provided by the county authorities based on statistical figures collected by the eVisitor system. These increases are a continuation of growth trends in tourist trade in the county over the last several years, the county authorities reported on Wednesday. Last year, foreign visitors made up a majority of visitors - 108,000, and they made 170,000 overnight stays. Chinese and South Korean guests topped the ranking and were…

The Croatian EU presidency is now in full swing. Having taken over the EU's rotating presidency from Finland, the next six months will see Croatia partake in influential decisions within the bloc. Not only that, but as Brexit is set to occur at the end of this month, seeing the UK enter into a transitional period, Croatia will take a leading role in helping to negotiate the UK's (hopefully) smooth exit. Hotels, particularly those in the capital city of Zagreb, are also experiencing a boom which is expected to continue as the city plays host to many EU delegates, and…

Croatia is the only country in all of Europe, and not just the EU, which fails miserably in achieving even 1 percent of its annual tourist traffic during the winter months of January and February. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes on the 8th of January, 2020, despite years of efforts to extend the tourist season, either with good ideas or simply bizarre schemes, Croatia still has by far the highest seasonality of tourist traffic of all European countries, this also includes non-EU countries. The just released Eurostat report based on overnight stays in 2018 showed that Croatia has the most…

January 8, 2020 - ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Series announces it is returning to the adrenaline island of Hvar for the fourth year in a row.  No sooner does one high-level international sporting body check out of Suncani Hvar Hotels these days than another one checks in...  One of the biggest changes in the tourism scene on Hvar in the last ten years has been its gradual transformation from a sun, beach and nightlife destination to additionally offering some of the best adrenaline sporting options on the Adriatic coast.  A host of events have been quietly added to the sporting calendar over…

January 7, 2019 - As part of the third edition of the project "Get to Know Your Country", the Croatian Tourist Guides Association will organize free guided tours on Sunday, January 12, 2020, starting at noon. HRTurizam reports that these guided tours will be held in all cities where this tourist guide association operates, which you can follow on Facebook. Namely, this event is about organizing free tours by local guides in each city, all beginning at the same time across Croatia. The guided tours are intended for the locals to get to know their city or town better and thus…

ZAGREB, January 7, 2020 - During the Christmas and New Year holidays 238,000 tourist arrivals and 621,000 bed nights were recorded, which is an increase of 8% compared to the same period last year, the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) said on Tuesday. The HTZ was citing data on tourism turnover in the commercial and non-commercial sectors as well as nautical charters, taken from the eVisitor system for the period from 20 December 2019 to 6 January 2020. HTZ director Kristjan Staničić said in a press release that the results are beyond expectation and confirm that Croatian destinations are continually…

January 6, 2020 - Looking to get back to nature and a healthy start to 2020? A wonderful family business highlighting Croatian indigenous goodness - Svijet Prirode near Varaždin Breg. The Lukač family is the proud owner of a little zoo with various native species of Croatia. They have about 80 animals who enjoy living in a spacious meadow and eating healthy food. This heaven on Earth is in Varaždin Breg, along the old Varaždin-Zagreb road. Back to 2014 About five years ago, Nikolina and Josip wanted their kids to eat healthier, so they got a donkey, goat, and sheep to…

Traditionally, most of Pula's visitors came from Germany, next in line come the Italians with an increase of five percent and guests from the United Kingdom with an increase of 11 percent, meaning that European visitors continue to be Pula's most numerous guests. As Glas Istre/A Dagostin writes on the 6th of January, 2020, Pula has yet another record-breaking tourist year behind it, with 2019 bringing in 465,160 guests to the popular Istrian city, up by six percent from 2018, and 2,306,309 overnight stays, up by 3.5 percent when compared to 2018. ''All the companies that deal with tourism in…

January 5, 2019 - In 2019, Zagreb County recorded 139,720 tourist arrivals, which is 14 percent more than in the same period in 2018 (123,008). The number of overnights also increased by 12 percent, from 205,003 to 229,827. Out of the total number of arrivals, 107,821 were foreign guests who achieved 69,732 overnights, while Croatian guests achieved 31,899 arrivals and 60,095 overnights. In 2019, Zagreb County was mostly visited by tourists from China and South Korea, followed by guests from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and the USA. The most visited cities were Velika Gorica, Samobor and Jastrebarsko, which recorded…