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January 5, 2022 - Split Airport is the busiest Croatian airport in 2021, dethroning Zagreb Airport for the first time in history!  The three leading Croatian airports, Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik, published their monthly statistics for December, thus rounding off the annual statistics for 2021. Split Airport has confirmed its status as the busiest Croatian airport in 2021! As Croatian Aviation already announced a few months ago, Split Airport is now officially the busiest airport in the Republic of Croatia. Namely, in 2021, a total of 1,577,584 passengers traveled through the airport. On the other hand, Zagreb, which has always been busier…

ZAGREB, 4 Jan 2022 - Zagreb recorded 161,100 tourist bed nights in December 2021, which is an increase of 275% compared with December 2020 and a decrease of 36% compared with December 2019, the City of Zagreb Tourist Board said on Tuesday. About 74,300 tourists visited the Croatian capital last month, which is an increase of as much as 422 percent compared with December 2020. "Although we are several days away from the official closure of the Christmas and New Year events in Zagreb, the results achieved show that this transitional and hybrid edition of Advent Zagreb has attracted a…

January 4, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as 12 Ryanair Zadar summer flights have been postponed until June. After announcing the temporary cancellation of 12 routes from Zagreb Airport, Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has postponed the start of operations on the same number of routes from the Zadar base, reports Croatian Aviation. Ryanair had already announced the start of operations on almost all seasonal routes from Zadar Airport at the very beginning of the summer flight schedule (from the end of March this year), though this will no longer happen. Namely, on 12 international lines, Ryanair postponed…

January 3, 2022 - Last year was a great one for Croatian tourism: there were 13.8 million arrivals and 84.1 million overnight stays in Croatia, that is 77 percent more arrivals and 55 percent more overnight stays than in the same period in 2020. At the same time, foreign tourists realized 71.9 million overnight stays, while domestic tourists realized 12.3 million overnight stays, reports HrTurizam.hr. These are the first data from the eVisitor system, which contains tourist traffic generated in commercial and non-commercial facilities and nautical charter. Most tourist overnight stays were realized in Istria (23.5 million), Split-Dalmatia (15.5 million), and…

January 3, 2022 - 50,000 tourists in Croatia welcomed 2022, and some hotel facilities saw 5.5x more guests than last year! According to the Croatian National Tourist Board, of the total number of guests currently staying in Croatia, 30 thousand are foreign visitors. Most tourists were recorded in Istria and Kvarner, followed by Split-Dalmatia, Dubrovnik-Neretva, and Zadar counties, Jutarnji List. Twenty-seven thousand guests were registered in hotels, which is a significant increase compared to January 2021, when only five thousand stayed in hotels on the same day. However, the figures show that we are still behind in data from the…

January 1, 2022 - Croatia's premier sunshine island of Hvar welcomes 2022 in traditional fashion, as the Polar Donkeys take to the Adriatic for the first swim of the year. People start a new year in different ways. Many with new resolutions, many more with hangovers.  But if you are looking for a novel way to blow away the cobwebs of the previous year, head to Bonj les Bains at 13:00 on New Year's Day where the annual New Year's Day swim, organised by Polarni Tovari (the Polar Donkeys) takes place.   Now in its 7th year, the Polar Donkeys swim…

December 31, 2021 - About 10,000 tourists in Istria County will celebrate the New Year in fifteen open hotels and two camps on the Istrian peninsula. The Istria County Tourist Board reveals that this is a 3x increase in guests compared to last year.  "Almost ten thousand guests are currently vacationing in Istria, which is three times more than last year when 3,750 guests stayed during the Christmas and New Year holidays, but twice less than the record 2019 when 21,500 tourists stayed in our county," says Istria County Tourist Board director Denis Ivošević, as reported by HRT. He adds…

December 31, 2021 - The Via Saint Martin pilgrimage route in Ludbreg is the latest attraction to tempt tourists to the 'center of the world.'  Imagine a region full of mysticism, miracles, stories, and legends; a region so specific that a thread runs through it that dates back to the very beginnings of civilization in this area; a thread that was upgraded with each new event, situation, success or defeat and which today is the culmination of the spatial, cultural, economic, social and, ultimately, civilizational projection of past times in today's circumstances, writes HRTurizam. Then imagine a space that combines all…

December 30, 2021 - The Tkon municipality is preparing for the new tourist season with promotional videos on the Arca Adriatica YouTube channel. The video materials, created as part of the project, aim to promote the Tkon tourist destination and the cross-border area of Croatia and Italy with particular emphasis on maritime heritage, reports HRTurizam. Tkon is a fishing village on the island of Pašman, where small shipyards still build wooden boats to order and where they still produce fishing equipment. Although Tkon is a relatively small municipality in terms of area and population, it is proud of its beautiful…

ZAGREB, 29 December, 2021 - Members of the assembly of the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) on Wednesday made a decision on changing the network of HTZ offices abroad in 2022 with the aim to gradually expand communication and promotional activities in additional markets that have the potential for further growth. The decision primarily refers to the Ukrainian market, in which Croatia achieved excellent results this year. According to the HTZ, Ukrainians have generated about 860,000 overnights stays so far this year, which is an increase of 2% compared to the same period of the record year 2019. "Given the potential for further…