August 20, 2021 - The extensive number of routes and flights connecting the Netherlands and Croatia have enabled the Dutch market to reach impressive numbers of arrivals and stays this summer.

Among the foreign markets with the largest tourist turnover in August, along with Germany, Slovenia, Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic, is the market of the Netherlands with more than 116 thousand arrivals and more than 852 thousand overnight stays, which compared to the same period last August growth of 780 percent in arrivals and 643 percent in overnight stays.

The current course of the season from the Dutch market was also commented on by the director of the CNTB Representation for the Benelux countries, Ivan Novak, who said that the announcements for the rest of the summer were very good. "The Netherlands has never in its history had more airlines to Croatia. For example, six airlines operate daily to Split alone, KLM has introduced a new route to Dubrovnik, while Ryanair flies from Eindhoven and Maastricht to Zadar alongside existing Transavia, Easyjet, and Croatia Airlines routes. A novelty this year is that Ryanair will fly from Eindhoven to Zagreb from December, which will make Croatia even more accessible to guests from the Benelux countries throughout the year. We believe that the rest of the season will go according to expectations and that we will get even closer to the results achieved in 2019, "concluded Novak.

The CNTB adds that Dutch journalist Jaan Juriaan Teuling is staying in Croatia, who will visit the Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva counties in the coming days, organized by the Croatian Tourist Board and with the support of the tourist board system, such as those from Trogir, Split, Hvar, Korcula, Dubrovnik and Cavtat, and the city of Zagreb and its surroundings.

The focus of the trip is on the total tourist offer of these destinations, and the materials will be published in a special weekend issue of the daily FD Persoonlijk, which has a circulation of 150,000 and whose readers are primarily Dutch entrepreneurs and businessmen among the highest incomes in the country, as well as in KLM's inflight magazines, Flying Dutchman magazine, which has a circulation of over 180,000 copies, and Holland Herald magazine, which has a circulation of over 100,000 copies.

"The Dutch market is traditionally among the top 10 markets with the highest tourist turnover, and when we compare the figures from August this year with the same period in August, a record 2019, we achieved 8 percent more arrivals and 92 percent of results in overnight stays. From accommodation, the Dutch still most often choose camps in which they realized more than 506 thousand overnight stays in August, and so far this year they have realized more than 880 thousand overnight stays in camps", said the director of the Croatian National Tourist Board Kristjan Staničić, adding that the most overnight stays by Dutch tourists are realized in household facilities and hotels.

During September and October, Croatia will host representatives of one of the most widely read media in the Netherlands, and a reality show will be filmed in our country. According to the CNTB, the show Expeditie Robinson, a version of the popular show "Survivor", filmed this spring in Zadar County, will soon start broadcasting and is expected to be watched by about 1.5 million viewers.

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July 1, 2021 - Some good tourism news for the first half of this year, as 11.8 million overnights in Croatia have been recorded, mostly in Istria, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, and Split-Dalmatia County!

After a mostly tourism-less 2020, some reassuring news coming from the first six months of this year.

Namely, during the first six months of 2021, there were 2.6 million arrivals and 11.8 million overnight stays recorded in Croatia, i.e., 54 percent more arrivals and 53 percent more overnight stays than in the same period last year. At the same time, foreign tourists recorded 9.1 million overnight stays, while domestic tourists recorded 2.7 million overnight stays, reports HRTurizam.

These are the first data provided from the eVisitor system, which contains tourist traffic in commercial and non-commercial facilities and nautical charter (eCrew system).

Most tourist overnight stays were realized in Istria County (3.6 million), Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (2.2 million), and Split-Dalmatia County (1.8 million), followed by Zadar County (1.6 million overnight stays), Šibenik-Knin County. 732,000), and Dubrovnik-Neretva County (624,000).

Observing the results of destinations, the highest number of overnight stays since the beginning of the year was achieved in Rovinj (681,000 thousand), Zagreb (427,000), and Poreč (418,000). Looking at the markets, since the beginning of the year, the largest number of overnight stays was recorded by foreign guests from Germany (2.4 million), Slovenia (1.5 million), Austria (987,000), Poland (866,000), and the Czech Republic (681,000). According to the type of accommodation, most overnight stays were recorded in household facilities, hotels, and camps.

During June this year, there were 1.5 million arrivals and 7.9 million overnight stays, or 62 percent more arrivals and 61 percent more overnight stays than in June 2020.

Guests from Germany (1.6 million), Slovenia (1.2 million), and Austria (805,000) spent the most overnight stays in Croatia. Most tourist overnight stays were realized in Istria County (2.4 million), Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (1.5 million), and Split-Dalmatia County (1.3 million), while the most popular destinations were Rovinj (439,000 overnight stays), Poreč (266,000), and Vir (232,000).

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