Travel

October 17, 2019 - Golden Slavonia is an integrated quality management project that brings together the Tourist Boards of Pozega, Lipik, Pakrac, Pleternica, Kutjevo, and the Velika Municipality, and the company Feel IQM. Namely, HRTurizam writes that integral quality management is a model for the development of Pozega-Slavonia County as a tourist destination called ‘Golden Slavonia’. The project coordinator is the Pozega Tourist Board director Silvija Podoljak, while all tourist boards in Pozega-Slavonia County are participating in the project. The goals of this project are an essential segment for each individual stakeholder, namely: increasing the number of quality entities, increasing the…

October 16, 2019 - Just because summer is over doesn’t mean the fun has to end. Let Solo Transfers lead the way on your offseason road trip from Zadar to Split. The offseason in Croatia has its perks - and if the summer weather we’ve been experiencing this October is any indication, you’ll never want to travel in the peak season again! Warm temperatures averaging in the mid-20 degrees Celsius, high sea temps, a relatively absent bura wind, and no sign of rain are just some of why we’ve been loving autumn so far  - and the fact that the…

So far, from the Asian market, Croatia has seen a ten percent increase in arrivals and overnight stays compared to the same period last year. Could tourists from distant markets like Asia be the key to extending the Croatian tourist season? As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes on the 16th of October, 2019, the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) has been presenting the Croatian tourism offer at the ITB Asia fair 2019, the leading tourism fair for the Asia-Pacific tourism industry that brings together international exhibitors from the holiday and corporate segment and is taking place in Singapore from October the…

October 16, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Rijeka and Croatia Airlines.  Avio Radar reports that Serbian national carrier Air Serbia has made changes to the upcoming winter flight schedule on the Belgrade-Rijeka route. As announced, this line will remain in service throughout the winter with two flights per week. The winter timetable will be in effect from October 27, 2019, to March 28, 2020.  Instead of running on Tuesdays and Fridays as it did in the summer flight schedule, this service will run on Mondays and Thursdays throughout winter.…

As Marija Crnjak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 14th of October, 2019, after investing more than 113 million euros across several key markets, the majority owner of the popular Pula Arena's plan is to invest another 340 million euros in the new Art'otel London Hoxton and Art'otel New York projects. The Dutch PPHE Hotel Group, the majority owner of the well known Croatian company Arena Hospitality Group, has opened the brand new Park Plaza Vondelpark hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in which it has invested 10 million euros in total. The new hotel in the Dutch capital boasts 102 rooms and…

October 15, 2019 - ACI Sail and Nautor Swan are bringing the first ClubSwan 36 training center in the world to Croatia, and precisely to Split. HRTurizam writes that it is an ACI Sail project, which in collaboration with top sailboat manufacturer Nautor Swan, was officially unveiled at the Genoa Boat Show. Namely, at one of the most respected sailing clubs in the world, Real Nautico de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Adriatic Croatia International Club (ACI) presented its new project ACI Sail, which will mark the future of sailing in the Adriatic and enrich the offer of complete Croatian…

October 14, 2019 - The future tourism development of the Cetina region will be based on the development of active and adventure tourism and untouched natural beauties. It will be presented under the slogan "Untamed Dalmatia".  On Monday, the results of the promotional activities for the project 'Sinj u sridu', an integrated program financed by European funds, aimed at the reconstruction, renovation, and revitalization of cultural assets of the City of Sinj for their greater valorization, were presented at the Sinj City Hall. The project partner responsible for the implementation of the promotional activities was the Public Institution RERA S.D.…

October 13, 2019 - The season may be ending but the promotion goes on - an ambitious project to connect the Lesina of old (Hvar) with Lesina in Italy today - by kayak.  The island of Hvar has had many names over the centuries. When the Ancient Greeks from the island of Paros sailed into what is now Stari Grad some 2,400 years ago, they named the island Pharos. In the 3C BC, the Greek poet Apollonius of Rhodes referred to it as Piteyeia after its pine trees, while the Romans changed the name slightly to Pharia and then Fara.…

October 13, 2019 - What exactly lies on the Kabal Peninsula above Stari Grad on the island of Hvar? It is one of the most photogenic - and deserted - parts of the island of Hvar, voted last week at the best island in Europe by readers of Conde Nast. The lead photo above is one of my favourite of Hvar, taken by Mario Romulic and depicting a sleepy turtle watching a speedboat pass by.   But for all its beauty from the air, not many people visit the Kabal Peninsula, which juts out into the Adriatic above Stari Grad on…

October 13, 2019 - HeadOnEast, a new festival celebrating the very best of Slavonia and surroundings, brought Osijek to life at the recent Days of Croatian Tourism: a video appreciation. It is not the destination where you end up but the memories you create along the way. I like that.  In fact I really like pretty much everything about my visit to Osijek last week. The tourism people in the east realised that they had one really big opportunity to impress the big tourism chiefs from Zagreb as Days of Croatian Tourism was held in continental Croatia for the first…