Travel

In the upcoming summer flight schedule, which is from March 31 to October 27, 81 new routes will operate to Croatian airports, including regular, low-cost and charter lines, from 24 world markets, reports Dalmatinski Portal on April 15, 2019.  Additionally, the first week of the summer flight began with a record 252 flights, which displayed a 30 percent increase compared to the first week of the summer flight schedule last year. Most of the flights in the first week were recorded at the airports in Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik. “New airlines and increasing the number of rotations are, among other things,…

April 15, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 20 of this incredible 2011 adrenaline trip covering 2,500 km along the Croatian coast.  The World's Biggest Welcome, an ambitious adventure tourism project in 2011 in Croatia enters Day 20 of this 2019 appreciation of one of the finest tourism promotion projects ever in Croatia.   The plan? To showcase the diversity and fabulous offer of adventure tourism in Croatia by following a GPS route the length of the Croatian coast in the shape of the word 'Welcome' - thereby creating…

April 14, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 19 of this incredible 2011 adrenaline trip covering 2,500 km along the Croatian coast.  The World's Biggest Welcome, an ambitious adventure tourism project in 2011 in Croatia enters Day 19 of this 2019 appreciation of one of the finest tourism promotion projects ever in Croatia.   The plan? To showcase the diversity and fabulous offer of adventure tourism in Croatia by following a GPS route the length of the Croatian coast in the shape of the word 'Welcome' - thereby creating…

April 13, 2019 - 'Summer is coming' has never been a more appropriate choice of words. Continuing our series Things to Do in Croatia, we turn to a massively popular niche: Game of Thrones Knowing a good part of the show was filmed at several locations on the Croatian coast, thousands of visitors have been flocking to Dalmatia in recent years, eager to explore King's Landing or the City of Meereen in real life. While you won't have any trouble finding an agency offering GoT-themed tours these days, we bring you a selection of four leading teams whose experienced guides…

April 13, 2019 - Another boost for luxury Hvar, as its first 5-star hotel becomes a member of the Leading Hotels of the World group. I am looking forward to a return to Hvar this weekend for the magical Easter period, a time of joy and family reunion. But apart from catching up with friends and family, one of the things I am most looking forward to is having a sneak peek inside Palace Elisabeth, hvar heritage hotel, the new luxury 5-star hotel just off the main square. Incredibly for such an elite island, it will be the first 5-star…

April 13, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 18 of this incredible 2011 adrenaline trip covering 2,500 km along the Croatian coast.  The World's Biggest Welcome, an ambitious adventure tourism project in 2011 in Croatia enters Day 18 of this 2019 appreciation of one of the finest tourism promotion projects ever in Croatia.   The plan? To showcase the diversity and fabulous offer of adventure tourism in Croatia by following a GPS route the length of the Croatian coast in the shape of the word 'Welcome' - thereby creating…

April 12, 2019 - Overtourism and heritage, one of the challenges destinations face. The Proceed with Care conference in Sibenik next month will focus on the key issues, with a world-class speaking line up. Meet them.  As previously reported on TCN, an important international conference on the challenges of overtourism and heritage takes place in Sibenik from May 2-5. Sibenik is the ideal location for such a conference, of course, home as it is to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites.  Having introduced the conference in the previous article, it is time to meet the speakers - it is quite an…

April 12, 2019 - Gourmet heaven in Spring, as historic Korcula comes alive with the Korculanske Pjatance Spring Food and Wine Festival. It was without doubt the nice thing we did as a family last year.  And if someone asked me to cherry pick a Croatian gourmet experience, I don't think I could have done better than a 5-course special at arguably Croatia's leading luxury boutique hotel, Lesic Dimitri, whose restaurant is in the Michelin Guide, with wines from Bire, who was coincidentally celebrating 20 years of his iconic Lumbarda winery, most famous for its Grk. A perfect introduction to…

April 12, 2019 - If we had a lipa for every time a tourist asked us where Diocletian’s Palace is while standing in the middle of it, we’d probably be one of Emporer Diocletian’s dinner guests back in the 4th century. To feed the curious minds of tourists while offering them local insight, tips to use around the town, and some good, old-fashioned info that might just come in handy on your travels in the Dalmatian capital, a different kind of Split map was created - meet MyMap.  “MyMap is a map made by a small group of volunteers. While…

Krapina-Zagorje County published a new promotional video that aims to present the most successful tourist destination of continental Croatia to the highest possible number of potential guests, reports HRTurizam on April 12, 2019.  The "Fairy Tale" tourist campaign, as the new video is also called, has already helped bring excellent results to the area. Namely, last year, 159,200 arrivals and 349,000 overnight stays were recorded in Krapina-Zagorje County, which is an increase of over 12 percent in arrivals and 7 percent in overnights compared to 2017. “The most important markets are Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Austria.…