Travel

August the 17th, 2021 - Could Zrmanja river cruises be the ideal way to draw foreign visitors to this beautiful but deeply neglected part of Dalmatia, and even provide jobs to the native population and encourage them to stay? As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, RiverZ could breathe life into this part of Dalmatia with Zrmanja river cruises. Marko Dobric is a professor of geography at a local school in Obrovac and he has been thinking for years about bringing untouched nature closer to tourists, and this year, in collaboration with a former student, that very idea was put into practice.…

August 16, 2021 - Finding himself in a luxury destination with a not so luxurious budget, TCN reporter Ivor Kruljac avoided starvation by locating Hvar Town budget restaurants. Here are his suggestions.  The words ''cheap price'' are very relative. It's much easier to determine a high price but what qualifies as actually cheap is a much tougher question. In that spirit, Hvar Town, known as one of the more popular and therefore more expensive destinations, lives up to its reputation. Last week, the Croatian media landscape was stunned by the bill issued at one of Hvar's elite clubs. The undoubtebly…

August 16, 2021 - Air transport expert Tonči Peović discusses the Ryanair Zagreb base, the fate of Croatia Airlines, and when Croatian airports will see pre-pandemic figures again.  While the number of tourists arriving by road in Croatia in recent weeks is the same as in the record 2019, aircraft and passengers at Croatian airports are still significantly less than pre-epidemic times. Tonči Peović, director of Brač Airport and the Air Transport Association president, which brings together all Croatian airports and airlines, talks about the challenges facing civil aviation with Jutarnji List. What is the traffic like at Croatian airports?…

August the 16th, 2021 - We've been hearing some horror stories of apartment owners deciding to cancel previously booked reservations, often those made by Croatian tourists, to instead go for last minute foreign tourists willing to pay far higher prices. Now one Croatian hostel in Zadar has decided to take advantage of the unexpectedly good tourist season with such shameful and unethical practices, too. The Croatian tourist season has been remarkably good, with some specific indicators being even better than the pre-pandemic, record year of 2019. Sadly, with this unexpected turn of events, greed has come out to play after…

August 15, 2021 - The coast isn't the only part of Croatia that is busy this year. Osijek-Baranja County 2021 tourism numbers are rising with an increasing number of Polish tourists.  The 2021 tourist season is not only successful on the Croatian coast. And on the continent, tourist boards are recording better results than those achieved last year, marked by numerous restrictions and measures in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, reports HRTurizam. According to eVisitor data, in the first seven months of this year, there was an increase in the number of overnight stays in Osijek-Baranja County by 36%.…

ZAGREB, 14 Aug, 2021 - Passengers leaving Croatia at the Macelj-Gruškovje border crossing with Slovenia have to wait five hours, while those leaving at other border crossings with Slovenia have to wait between one and one and a half hours, the Croatian Auto Club said on Saturday afternoon. Passengers entering Croatia from Slovenia have to wait the longest at Brod Na Kupi, three hours, and at Pasjak, two hours. Those entering from Bosnia and Herzegovina have to wait two hours at the Jasenovac border crossing and one hour at Stara Gradiška. Passengers entering or leaving Croatia at the Goričan II border crossing with…

August 14, 2021 - Split Ferry Port traffic in 2021 is at 80% of 2019's numbers, and more Croatia traffic news this weekend as crowds form all over the country.  Tens of thousands of passengers will pass through Split's ferry port this weekend, and judging by the large crowds; the season is in full swing, reports Dalmacija Danas. Jelena Ivulić, head of Jadrolinija in Split, commented on this weekend's numbers.  "This weekend, we expect over 80 thousand passengers and more than 18 thousand vehicles at the Split Ferry Port," said Ivulić. She adds that we are crossing 80% of 2019,…

ZAGREB, 14 Aug, 2021 - The project entitled "Creating and placement of the new cross-border active tourism product as an integral part of modern tourist offering between Mura and Raba" was promoted in the northern Croatian city of Varaždin. The €793,608 "Mura Raba Tour" project, as it is called in short, is co-financed by the Interreg Cooperation Programme V-A Slovenia-Hungary for the period of 2014-2020 in the amount of 675,000. During the event in Varaždin, representatives of the AS TV station from the Slovenian town of Morska Sobota promoted the project aimed at creating opportunities for active holiday-making in the cross-border region.…

August 14, 2021 - Rogotin tourism is booming in the Neretva Valley, and this is even without a city beach!  Many wonder how Rogotin, a small town in the Neretva Valley's northwest, a few kilometers away from the city center, is leading tourism in the Ploče area. And this is with more famous tourist destinations around and despite the limited number of accommodation facilities and classic tourist facilities, including a beach. In addition, Rogotin locals have only recently been involved in tourism, so they also lack experience, reports Slobodna Dalmacija. Despite everything, according to the data of the Ploče Tourist…

August the 13th, 2021 - Croatian air traffic has well and truly outshined the dire situation we experienced last year as the vaccination rollout continues globally and restrictions on travel and tourism slowly but steadily allow for more flexibility. 285 percent more air passengers arrived in June 2021 when compared to the same month in 2020. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, although the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is far from totally over, all indicators suggest that almost all trends and figures in terms of freight and passenger traffic in national and international traffic, if not already returned to their pre-pandemic levels,…