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February 23, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Dubrovnik, Pula, Zadar, Split, and Zagreb. 

The IT system of Croatia’s Interior Ministry has failed, which has caused long lines at Croatian border crossings. Personal documents and passports also cannot be issued at police offices around the country, reports Index.hr on February 22, 2019. The police did not initially confirm the information. According to the Bosnian media, the system for checking biometric documents at the majority of border crossings between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia has failed. Therefore, the traffic is currently suspended, and long columns of vehicles are being formed at the border crossings. The system failed at about 10 am this morning, and the…

 February 22, 2019 - An important new chapter in Croatia's emerging medical tourism story, as Bagatin Clinic, one of the industry heavyweights, officially opens in Split.  Another important piece in the jigsaw is now in place.  Medical tourism in Croatia has the potential to become one of the driving forces of the country's tourism sector, and experts agree that Croatia could easily be one of the top ten global players in this lucrative industry within 10 years, a topic we have covered in depth in the past.   And while official bodies have been slow to seize the opportunity (something which…

The Kvarner Tourist Board has successfully developed the region as an outdoor tourist destination over the last few years.

The stand of the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) with its 24 exhibitors is the largest at this year's Munich Tourism Fair, with the tourism potential of both Zagreb and Slavonia having special emphasis placed on them. Gari Cappelli believes that continental tourism is the future for Croatia's tourism offer. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 21st of February, 2019, through the variety of Croatian snacks prepared by famous Croatian chefs, master chef Branko Ognjenović and the chef of the Croatian football team, Tomica Đukić, numerous visitors to the International Tourism Fair f.re.e 2019 - which, as we reported recently,…

February 21, 2019 - Slobodna Dalmacija's Tihana Marović details her winter walk through the bleak Split city center.

f.re.e., Fair for Leisure and Travel (Die Reise und Freizeitmesse originally) ist the largest tourism-related fair held in the German state of Bavaria, and one of the most important such fairs in Europe. Today it was opened in Munich, and the organisers say that this year's installment is the largest for the fair in Munich. It holds an additional layer of importance for the Croatian tourism, as a largest proportion of tourists in Croatia, especially in the Northern part of the Croatian coast, come from Germany, so the number of Germans is often seen as the most importan factor in…

Cities in 4K reaches Sibenik on February 19, 2019, with a quality video to match this underrated Dalmatian gem in its video series of Croatian destinations. It was the great surprise of the summer of 2017 for me.  Although I had had very brief visits to the city fo Sibenik in previous years, it was the first time I had actually spent time in the old city and visited its fortresses.  I was stunned. While all the media was raving about Dubrovnik, Split, Pula and Zadar as the top coastal city destinations, here was a city out of the limelight,…

Ten European cities have united in the RetaiLink project to revive their historical core by strengthening retail sales. They include Fermo (Italy), Pecs (Hungary), Bistrita (Romania), Liberec (Czech Republic), Hengelo and Hoogeveen (Netherlands), Basingstoke and Deane (United Kingdom), and Croatia’s Šibenik, reports Goran Rihelj for HRTurizam on February 19, 2019.  The vast majority of small and medium-sized cities have trouble keeping retail shops alive within city centers. The causes are different for individual cities, but the common themes run along the lines of shopping centers opening in the suburbs and beyond the borders of cities, offering a unified retail offer…

ZAGREB, February 19, 2019 - Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli on Tuesday underlined the importance of gastronomy and excellence in gastronomy professions in enhancing the quality of Croatian tourism. Speaking at Open Day of Aspira college in Zagreb, Cappelli said that today it was perhaps even more honourable to be a chef because gastronomy increasingly motivated people to travel. He said Aspira and its gastronomy study programme in Zagreb and Split as well as the 100 students who enrol in it every year confirmed the validity of such studies. Cappelli recalled that the Tourism Ministry had awarded 370 scholarships this year…