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November 14, 2018 - It has been confirmed that Ryanair is in talks with both Split and Zagreb as the Irish low-cost carrier looks to expand its operations in Croatia. An interesting development in the budget airline market in Croatia, as it has emerged that Ryanair is in discussions to bring routes to both Zagreb and Split. The Irish carrier, which brought budget flights to the Dalmatian coast with the opening of Zadar back in 2007, had fallen behind some of its competitors in recent years in the Croatian market, with easyJet in particular establishing itself on Croatia's Adriatic coast.  Zagreb has…

November 14, 2018 - The Korean love affair with Croatia continues, with very strong numbers posted on the new Seoul to Zagreb route, almost 10,000 in the first two months. One of the more unexpected success stories of Croatian tourism in recent years has been the surge of interest from South Korea, where tourist arrivals have rocketed from 17,000 in 2011 to more than 400,000 a year. As is often the case with Croatian tourism, this success is quite accidental and has its roots in Croatia being the setting of a popular reality TV show, The Romantic. Learn more about the…

ZAGREB, November 13, 2018 - Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said on Tuesday that the three Croatian tourism-related bills which the government forwarded to the parliament in late October were prerequisites for creating a new competitive identity of Croatian tourism, and that it was the government's duty to develop a strategy for managing Croatia's positive perception. "Croatia must create a new image and move towards this topic with full responsibility, professionalism and maturity. It is the duty of our government on behalf of all citizens, institutions and companies, to develop a strategy of managing a positive perception of Croatian tourism," Cappelli…

Rijeka Airport has added yet another new airline to the list for the upcoming season. 

November 12, 2018 - One of the many things I love about my job running Total Croatia News is that there is so much to cover in this beautiful country, and each day brings a new surprise and opportunity for learning. It is now more than a year since I was alerted to the quality of the very best in Croatian health tourism. St Catherine Specialty Hospital, a Leading Hospital of the World and recent European partner with Mayo Clinic for the new OneOme RightMed pharmacogenetic test; Bagatin Clinic, named the best dermatology clinic in Europe to add to a…

November 12, 2018 - In August 2014, Croatia became the first country in modern European aviation history to operate a scheduled seaplanes service, as European Coastal Airlines touched down on the Adriatic before taxiing into the harbour in Jelsa on the island of Hvar, a short 15-minute flight from Resnik near Split Airport. The new service was short-lived, however, and the ECA planes were grounded two years later, and the company is now in pre-bankruptcy proceedings, as well as in a lawsuit with the Croatian Civil Aviation Authority. In the first of a series of in-depth interviews looking at the…

 November 12, 2018 - You can take the boy out of The Beautiful Croatia, but you can't take The Beautiful Croatia out of the boy.   It is an excellent idea to give Croatia a lot more visibility to the French market, which grew 8% last year, and various official heavyweights, including Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Tourism Minister Gari Capelli, were on hand at the opening of the photo exhibition "Croatia, Full of Colours" in the Carrousel de Louvre shopping centre next to the famous glass pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris. A month-long exhibition of 26 large-format photos from…

The new Canopy hotel by Hilton has 151 rooms, a restaurant and bar, a fitness room, a retreat room, a transfer room, and two meeting rooms.

Dubrovnik Airport's General Services Manager, Luko Vuletić, talks about the current 225 million euro expansion and the plans for building a new terminal to be used only during the summer season. 

  November 11, 2018 - Continuing our look back at the Mediterranean as it once was, a visit to Bol on Brac, home to Croatia's most icon beach and one of its top destinations. Things were a little different 50 years ago...  A delightful look at one of the jewels of Croatian island tourism half a century ago, out of season on a sunny day in January.  Zlatni Rat is one of Croatia's popular beaches these days, but how refreshing to see a few lone fishermen ruling the beach as they continue the traditional way of life before the advent…