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November 29, 2018 — Are you an American looking to get off the beaten track, but not willing to live in a yurt for three weeks? Do you need free Wifi to ‘Gram hard-to-pronounce-yet-delish meals, but don’t want anyone to comment “Been there”? Do sneaky waiters offering homemade booze not available on the menu make you feel special? Does getting lost in a village where almost no one speaks English make you happy? Then you’ve probably considered Croatia, which PricewaterhouseCoopers labeled one of the top five “Off the Beaten Track” travel destinations for Americans. It’s a good choice… if you…

New hotels in Croatia are popping up all the time, and some major investments have seen the tourism sector come on leaps and bounds even very far away from the glitz and glamour of the yacht-filled coast.  Croatia's investment climate has some big improvements to be getting on with, and quickly, but despite numerous issues, large investments in the country's safest sector, tourism, continue to pour in. The Croatian capital of Zagreb has gone from all but entirely overlooked as a tourist destination to a ''must visit'' continental city which many are referring to as the ''new Vienna'' among other…

The answer is yes, Flydubai is returning to Zagreb, but only temporarily.

Fancy spending part of the festive season in a rather unusual location? It isn't Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar or Zagreb, but Knin, one of Croatia's most historically important cities, located in the rugged hills of the Dalmatian hinterland. Advent in Knin is, just like other locations across the country, looking like it's definitely worth a visit. While Croatia is continuing to struggle with the self-limiting chains summer tourism places on the country, winter tourism has been helped hugely by Zagreb's advent success over the past three years. The Croatian capital has come on leaps and bounds, going from all but overlooked…

November 28, 2018 — Croatia’s crystal-clear Adriatic Sea remains one of the country’s bigger selling points come tourism season, sending the nautical tourism sector into overdrive. But governmental oversight and hygienic controls have not grown in tandem, according to Slobodna Dalmacija, which begs the question: How many tourists can empty their bowels into the Croatia’s Adriatic before it becomes a feculent cesspool? Feces technically are classified as biodegradable waste which can be released into the open waters under certain conditions: 12 nautical miles from the nearest shoreline for boats without a purification system, or three nautical miles for those that…

The state has decided to discontinue talks with the Pula hotel group Arena Hospitality Group, the former Arenaturist, about the sale of Riviera Hotel in Pula city center, reports Jutarnji List on November 26, 2018. The Riviera Hotel in Pula is located in a beautiful old Austro-Hungarian building from early 20th century and was run for years by the largest Pula hotel company. The hotel, as it does every year, closed in mid-October, but the question is whether it will open its doors ahead of the next tourist season. For a very long time, nothing has been invested in the…

Last year, the town of Rab recorded the two-millionth overnight stay 12 days earlier than expected. The last year's tourist season was a record-breaking one by the number of tourist arrivals and overnights. In the meantime, Rab has managed to extend the tourist season and brand its tourist attractions, such as the original and popular Rab Fjera festival. This event has now been joined by the Rab Island Advent Festival, which will this year be organized for the fourth year in the row, reports Večernji List on November 26, 2018. The director of the Rab Town Tourist Board, Ivana Matušan,…

After more than five years working on various motor yachts and gulets sailing Croatia, my husband and I wanted a change; the winds of the Adriatic were beckoning and we wanted to answer their call by hoisting our sails - sailing Croatia as it should be, and our season did not disappoint. The boat was everything we had hoped for and there is absolutely no comparison between motoring and sailing (maybe I will go into the differences another day) but what we didn’t expect was the type of clientele we would get aboard. There was a vast price difference between…

November 24, 2018 - Move over Facebook tagging, video tagging has arrived, taking tourist info to the next level, as was demonstrated at last month's Days of Croatian Tourism on Hvar.  So many great Croatian conferences in recent weeks, so little time.  Among the many thought-provoking presentations at last month's Days of Croatian Tourism conference on Hvar last month was a presentation by Philip DeBevoise, the CEO of Citizine Networks, a Los Angeles-based media company. Citizine was the initiator of the inaugural Travel Video Awards, which was this year won by the Croatian National Tourist Board for their promotional video…

Have you heard about the "Blue & Green Homestay" labels by Lika-Senj County?