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While we may not know what’s going on with Croatia Airlines and their strategic partners, which we reported about earlier this week, we do know one thing for sure - Croatia Airlines achieved a record 2018.  Namely, in 2018, the Croatian national carrier and Star Alliance member transported a total of 2,168,863 passengers, which is a record in the company’s history and a 2 percent increase on 2017, reports AvioRadar on January 9, 2019.  Last year, Croatia Airlines recorded 1,642,285 passengers on international flights, which is 3 percent more than a year earlier, while passenger traffic on domestic flights remained at…

January 10, 2019 - Air Transat announced the new Toronto-Split service back in September, which was scheduled to operate this summer.  Back in September 2018, Croatians, Canadians, the Croatian diaspora, and anyone hoping to travel between Toronto and Split received some very welcoming news - Air Transat would fly direct between Toronto and Split for the 2019 season. The announcement was also confirmed in a Facebook post by the Canadian-Croatian Chamber of Commerce.  While the post is no longer available on Facebook, it read: “Zagreb or Split? YOU Choose! Toronto to Croatia Summer 2019 with Air Transat Air Transat announces…

We've already gotten used to Croatian towns and islands and other locations (Plitvice!) finding their place on various Top-Something lists in media all over the world. Still, it's wonderful to see a Croatian town on one of the most prestigious lists published in the year. And it's not one of the "usual suspects", like Dubrovnik, Split or Korčula, it's Zadar!  That list is the New York Times' 52 Places list, a selection of the most popular, up-and-coming, fast-changing and interesting places in the world. Islands from the Zadar archipelago are also mentioned, with Dugi otok and Pašman being mentioned by…

ZAGREB, January 9, 2019 - During the Christmas and New Year holidays, namely between November 30 and January 6, Zagreb recorded excellent tourist results. It welcomed 140,633 tourists, or 11% more than in 2017, the Zagreb tourism board reported on Wednesday. Tourists in Zagreb generated 271,244 overnights. Of the total number of tourists, 45,349 were from Croatia, up 10% on the year, and 95,314 were foreigners, up 12%. Croatian tourists generated 82,402 overnights, or 14% more on the year, while foreigners accounted for 188,842 nights or 16% more than in 2017. The majority of tourists came from Bosnia and Herzegovina,…

Split, Zadar, and Dubrovnik made the top 20 most awarded cities in the world in 2018! 

Less than a month before sending his Fleet Rent-a-Car company to bankruptcy, and a few months after he ended Compass Zagreb travel agency’s operations in the same way, Matko Bolanča left the Kompas Cruise project, leaving it to his former partner Roman Reicher, who is determined to develop a business with luxury cruises in the Adriatic Sea. One of his partners is DIV Cruises, owned by Tomislav Debeljak, reports Poslovni.hr on January 7, 2019. Reicher admits that such a start to doing business is not easy, which is why he is thinking about changing the name of the company. Still,…

January 7, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia, with updates to Pula and Dubrovnik.  Flights to Croatia: Ryanair from Dublin to Split and Dubrovnik Ryanair has announced that they are launching their first flights to Dubrovnik and Split from Dublin, four times a week from June, as part of its largest Croatian summer schedule so far. The 2019 summer schedule also includes flights from Zadar to Cologne, Hamburg and Nuremberg, reports HRTurizam.  "Ryanair is pleased to announce our first flights from Dubrovnik and Split to Dublin, which will run four times per…

Could a brand new Croatian flight company be on the horizon? According to Nino Borić, who has been working in international aviation for thirty years, yes it could. As Sasa Paparella/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 6th of January, 2019, there could soon be a new Croatian flight company named Smile Air. Although the airline company's name was registered in Zagreb during the summer of 2017, its director and co-owner, Nino Borić, who has been working for over thirty years in the field of aviation, is in no particular hurry to set up the project, and is proceeding cautiously. "We'd like…

Is the exceptional development of tourism in the Imotski region really an important factor in the development of this area, or is it just a trend, which, in turn, has been triggered by the arrival of many guests and the improvement of living conditions, primarily holiday home rentals? This is a doubt many people from Imotski encounter, especially after the latest results of last year's tourist season. And they are fascinating. Let’s remember that not so long ago in 2006, over two thousand overnight stays were recorded in the entire Imotski region, of which 30 percent were by foreign guests…

This year expects to be another stellar one for the popular Dubrovnik Airport, which hopes to grow their passenger numbers 5%. Recall, in 2018, Dubrovnik hit a new record after welcoming over 2.5 million travelers through their doors, which is already up over 9% on 2017, reports Ex Yu Aviation on January 6, 2019.  "This past year was demanding and turbulent but our goal of achieving 10% growth, which is above the global average, has been more or less attained. We expect that our net profit for 2018 will amount to 9.8 million euros. In 2019, we estimate passenger growth…