Travel

October 11, 2019 - The land of sun and sea, but also the land of kindness of strangers and safety - Croatia's under-promoted tourism jewels.  One of the things I like about working in the media in Croatia is TCN's position of being local and being foreign - local knowledge with a foreign eye. It means that while we understand how things work in Croatia, we also have an understanding of what foreigners - and in particular - tourists are looking for in terms of information. One simple example of this was soon after we started Total Split.  As a…

October 11, 2019 - Arriva, the leading provider of passenger transport in Croatia, and Cammeo, a prominent taxi service in the country, have joined forces.  Goran Rihej of HRTurizam writes that companies often come together to provide the highest quality services and added value for customers. This is regularly seen in the world of transport as integrated transport experiences are currently king.  Uber, Flixbus, NextBike, and Spin City are just some of the great partnerships that have joined forces to deliver value to customers. In this spirit, a new partnership has emerged in the Croatian transportation scene. Representatives of Arrive Croatia and…

October 11, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Split and Pula. Following Thursday’s announcement that Air Transat is looking to increase their Croatian operations to Split and Dubrovnik, Avio Radar revealed on Friday that Spanish low-cost airline Volotea will run a seasonal service between Athens and Split as part of their 2020 summer flight schedule.  Thus, Volotea will operate two flights per week between the two cities, on Wednesdays and Sundays, beginning April 19. This seasonal service will compete against Aegean Airlines and Croatia Airlines, both Star Alliance members,…

Dubrovnik is still swamped with cruise ships, and it seems that Croatia's southernmost city is still doing better, or perhaps better to say much worse, than all Croatian ports across the country combined when it comes to the arrival of these harmful floating cities. As Morski writes on the 10th of October, 2019, the cruise season is not over yet, and in the Port of Dubrovnik, when looking at the number of cruise ships and the number of passengers brought in by them, remains the ''top'' cruise port in the entire Croatian Adriatic. Specifically, in the first eight months of…

October 10, 2019 - Split has recorded the best nine months in tourist traffic ever. A look at the successful year so far thanks to the Split Tourist Board.  Slobodna Dalmacija writes that Alijana Vukšić, director of the Split Tourist Board, revealed that 837,125 guests visited Split during that period, with almost 2.5 million tourist overnights achieved. Namely, with this result, Split surpassed last year's best tourist year by as much as 8 percent in the number of visits, while the number of overnight stays is up 9 percent from last year. According to the Split Tourist Board,  in the…

ZAGREB, October 10, 2019 - A total of 18.8 million tourists visited Croatia in the first nine months of 2019, up 4.5% year on year, and they generated almost 103 million overnight stays, an increase of 2% y-o-y, the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) said on Wednesday. The data collected by the eVisitor system was published on the HTZ website, indicating that in the period from January to September, almost 17 million foreign tourists visited Croatia, an increase of 4% compared to the same period last year, generating 90.4 million bed nights, up 1.3%. Domestic tourists accounted for 2 million arrivals,…

October 10, 2019 - Air Transat is looking to strengthen operations in Croatia. Are trips to Dubrovnik and Split in its plans? Ex Yu Aviation reports that the theme of Air Transat’s annual meeting last week was Croatia - and we are not surprised. In 2018, 172,712 Canadian tourists visited Croatia, which was an increase of 26.5% compared to 2017.  While Canada’s third-largest airline has operated a seasonal summer service to Zagreb since 2016, it has put Croatia’s popularity in focus and previously expressed interested in expanding to Dubrovnik and Split. They’ve even made contact with both airports.  “Croatia remains…

October 9, 2019 - Battle Trip, the most popular South Korean TV show, is using Croatia as its home base this week.  HRTurizam reports that the Croatian National Tourist Board and Bluesun Hotels, in cooperation with Korean National Television KBS and A9, hosted the production crew of the most popular South Korean TV show 'Battle Trip', as well as Korea's biggest pop stars Park Cho-rong and Yoon Bo-mi. The crew is on a six-day visit to Croatian destinations, which will be featured in the popular TV show. Otherwise, the Battle Trip broadcast on the KBS channel is followed by over…

October 9, 2019 - The recent ACAP Croatian diaspora conference in Cleveland included a medical tourism panel, the latest strengthening of medical tourism ties between international Croatians and the homeland. An interview with panelist Jeana Havidich, MD, PhD. Dr. Jeana Havidich is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire.  She is a graduate of The Dartmouth Institute and her research focuses on outcomes and health care delivery science.   She is active in medical education and participates on national quality and safety initiatives. 1. You were a recent panelist on the medical tourism panel…

If you're just trying to find a place to get away from Zagreb that is close and will help you relax, Etno park Zagreb located in Mala Mlaka is the place for you. Sunčana Barušić writes for Jutarnji list about the resort, located to the south of the Croatian capital, 11 kilometres from the centre of the city and just 7 kilometres from the Franjo Tuđman airport, in the centre of the Mala Mlaka village. A wooden house right at the entrance to the park will be the first thing to catch your eye; it's a traditional "Turopolje čardak" (čardak…