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According to the Croatian tourist registration platform eVisitor, which is used by hotels and private accommodation renters, the millionth overnight stay in Dubrovnik was registered on June the 1st this year. Dubrovački vjesnik reports that it's five days earlier than that benchmark number was achieved last year (or, of course, any previous year, as Dubrovnik as well as Croatia have been on an upward trend for a long time now). The system does not include nautical tourists who spend their nights on the boats. Almost 400,000 tourists stayed in Dubrovnik in the first five months of 2019, which is over…

At the hotel Sveti Mihovil in Trilj, a press conference was held where the ‘Trilj Summer Program’ was presented. In addition to mayor Ivan Šipić, the conference was attended by the director of the Trilj Tourist Board Andriana Ivković, the head of the City of Trilj Marko Župa and the president of the City Council of Trilj Ivana Živaljić, reports Dalmacija Danas on June 5, 2019.  At the very beginning, mayor Ivan Šipić pointed out the activities that the City of Trilj has undertaken concerning planning Trilj center and enhancing the quality of tourist infrastructure, with particular emphasis on arranging…

Summer is right around the corner, and one of the most beautiful beaches in Split, Kaštelet, which is better known as Obojena, will shamefully welcome the new season. The Split Obala firm, as far as their workload is concerned, did only what was needed to upgrade the beach before the season, and did not even bother to fix the broken stone shower which was set up last year, reports Dalmatinski Portal on June 4, 2019.  Milan Šabić The entrance to the sea is disastrous - it is bare, with sunken in puddles, broken walls, and graffiti. Milan Šabić Obojena was…

Just a few days ago, Lufthansa landed at Rijeka Airport for the first time and thus established a permanent line with Munich. And now, on June 4, 2019, Air Serbia landed at Rijeka Airport. Therefore, for the first time in almost 30 years, Rijeka is once again linked to Belgrade with a direct flight, reports Otok-Krk.org on June 4, 2019.  The new airline was welcomed with a traditional inauguration ceremony and water cannon salute. Representatives of the Rijeka Airport attended the ceremony with chief representatives of Air Serbia Goran Grozdanić, Chief Marketing Officer Maja Šotra, Regional Manager for Croatia, Slovenia…

The freshwater aquarium Aquatika museum from Karlovac has now joined the Global Network of Water Museums, thus becoming a part of the family of the world's most famous museums and interpretation centres of this kind, hrturizam.hr writes. Aquatika has managed to fill an extremely important educational function, as well as succeed in holding remarkable importance for the preservation of the underwater world of Croatian rivers and lakes. Now that importance has been recognised by the leading actors on the global level, which plays the key role in educating the public and raising the awareness on the various questions regarding freshwater…

June 4, 2019 - Croatia Airlines has joined the anti-plastic movement with their latest announcement - they’re trading plastic cups for paper on board all of their flights! Namely, Croatia Airlines announced that the new measure came into force on Monday, June 3, and that plastic cups are a thing of the past for this national air carrier.  “In line with current trends and legal requirements in the area of environmental protection, Croatia Airlines is discontinuing the use of plastic cups on all flights as of today. The use of paper cups will additionally raise the quality of our services,…

If there's one thing Dubrovnik isn't short of other than crowds and Game of Thrones tours, its luxury. The Pearl of the Adriatic, known worldwide as Croatia's most famous tourist destination, the country's southernmost city has gained yet another high end, luxury hotel, situated in Babin Kuk. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija CrnjakCrnjak writes on the 3rd of June, 2019, following the expansion of the trade and the renovation of the Gallery in Zagreb, tourism is now the focus of Ciril Zovko, the owner of Importanne Hotels and Resort. The Dubrovnik-based firm Importanne Hotels and Resort, owned by entrepreneur Ciril Zovko, opened its…

The tunnel of Rijeka, the newest street in Rijeka as it is sometimes referred to, has been reopened for all visitors, hrturizam.hr reports. It's a former military tunnel, 330 meters long, built by the Italian Army during World War II (1939-1942). It's around 4 meters wide and has an average height of around 2.5 meters. Its original purpose was to protect the civilians of the town of Rijeka against any possible shellings during the war, and it was a part of the fortified structures that were used as bunkers for ammunition. It goes to as deep as 10 meters underground,…

Novilist.hr brings the information that Croatia as a whole, as well as two cities in Dalmatia, are topping the world's largest travel platform's greatest growth list. In addition to the country itself, Dubrovnik and Split are the cities that are said to have gained the greatest growth in the recent past on TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor has recently shared their newest statistical data about the behaviour and the clicks by the visitors to their website, and Croatia is at the top of the list for the greatest growth in the number of searches and popularity in the first four months of this…

June 3, 2019 - Croatia's beaches are filling up for the summer season - play your part to keep them clean with BlueBag and win an eco-adventure holiday to amazing Palagruza. As previously reported on TCN, among the many global initiatives to clean up our oceans and beaches is a rather nice Croatian initiative called BlueBag. The concept of BlueBag is simple. Make a campaign to clean up the Adriatic, find local partners to support and offer distribution points, and encourage everyone who loves the sea - from sailors to sun-worshippers, to take 10-15 minutes from their enjoyment of Paradise,…