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Samobor Salami Festival is a tradition started 32 years ago, first when friends in their homes and weekend houses competed one against another, but in time it became an official yearly competition looking for a best salami made in the Samobor region. People in this part of Croatia take their cured meats seriously, and creating you own home-made salami is a matter of pride for many a hobbyist in central Croatia. In the past three decades that the competition has been held the submitions have gotten so numerous that they had to create four categories, and the grading is performed…

April 11, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 16 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 16 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 10, 2019 - Unless you belong to the 1% of people who have never seen an episode of Game of Thrones (enter meme here), we’re pretty sure you’re aware that the final 8th season of the wildly popular TV series begins on April 14th. While you’re busy recapping the last seven seasons and brushing on the characters and powerful families in the medieval fantasy epic, we thought we’d offer you help by looking at one of the many Game of Thrones filming locations in Croatia - Klis fortress.  Long before it was known as the city of Meereen…

The Tourist Council of the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) decided to award grants to top tourism events this year and has selected the British PR agency "Hills Balfour" for co-operation in 13 markets. Darija Reić was appointed as a new director of HTZ's office in London, reports Poslovni.hr on April 10, 2019. Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said that the newly-appointed head of the HTZ office in London would have “a challenging job of further positioning Croatia on the British market, which has recorded a 35 per cent increase in the number of tourists in the last two years.” HTZ Director…

If everything goes to plan, the Livka Bay on the island of Šolta will soon welcome the construction of a high-end tourist resort, which includes a five-star hotel. The entire project should be completed by 2023, with infrastructural works beginning this fall, says Milenko Bijedić, head of the company Azurna Uvala which represents the investor in this project, the British investment firm Dolphin Capital Investors, reports Slobodna Dalmacija on April 10, 2019.  The total value of the entire project is estimated at over one billion kuna, of which approximately 509 million kuna is set aside for the first phase of the project,…

April 10, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 15 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 15 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 9, 2019 - Football captures the attention all over the world. Meet an innovative tourism partnership from the Premier League and a rising African luxury destination - Rwanda. April 6 is always a very emotional date for me, for it was on that date in 1994 that a plane was shot down in Central Africa, killing two presidents on board. What followed was the quickest genocide in history, in Rwanda, an impoverished country which lost over 10% of its population, as 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days.  (Life for this correspondent before TCN)  I arrived a couple of…

One of the biggest events (and parties!) of the year, Škrletovo Party will be held in Ivanić-Grad again this year, starting on Saturday, April 13th 2019 at 4 pm.  The event is organized by the town of Ivanić-Grad, their Tourist Board and the Škrlet Moslavina Association. The main goal of the event is the promotion of the indigenous white wine variety Škrlet as the symbol of Moslavina region, where Ivanić-Grad is located. The event has traditionally had two separate parts: first a gathering of experts, winemakers, journalists, sommeliers etc. is held, where they discuss Škrlet and its position on the…

April 9, 2019 - Putting Croatian adventure tourism on the map, with the biggest welcome in the world. Day 14 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 14 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 8, 2019 - Hvar Town is ready for another busy tourist season, and this year it will be served like never before with connections from Hvar to Split.  Great news for Hvar Town for the upcoming season, as there will be no less than SIXTEEN daily catamarans to the birthplace of organised tourism in Europe for the peak season to and from Split.  Having lived on Hvar for many years, the issue of connectivity to the mainland has always been an emotive issue, and it seems finally that the issue has been solved - and in some style.  Both…