March the 6th, 2023 - The Jadran hotel group is set to reconstruct the famous Crikvenica Hotel International after having applied for the large project under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NPOO).

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the large hotel group Jadran has successfully applied for a project under the NPOO worth an enormous 22 million euros, of which they could use grants in the amount of 6.6 million euros.

Jadran, as a leading company in the entire Croatian tourism sector for the use of grants, submitted their project for the reconstruction of the much loved Crikvenica Hotel International. The project is called "Step into the hotel of the future/Zakoracite u hotel buducnosti" because the aforementioned funds are aimed primarily at encouraging the green and digital transition of companies working within the wider tourism sector.

The green and digital transition has been a huge talking point for a considerable amount of time across all fields in Croatia, and the coronavirus pandemic has only worked to push things along in both regards. The tourism sector, Croatia's largest economic branch, accounting for around 20 percent of the country's GDP, is far from an exception to the transition. Numerous projects with the green and digital transition firmly in mind have been launched across the wider sector, and hotels aren't immune from the changes Croatia hopes to implement.

Thanks to these very handsome funds, the well known hotel group Jadran will be able to modernise the Crikvenica Hotel International and introduce the latest technologies on offer. The start of the hotel reconstruction is planned for November this year, and it is expected that the works will be finished completely by June 2025, just in time for the very height of that year's summer tourist season.

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October the 24th, 2021 - The popular Crikvenica Hotel International, which has stood proud on this coastal town for many years, is set to be torn down and replaced with a brand new, modern and luxurious facility.

As Morski writes, the much-loved Crikvenica Hotel International, located in the city port just a few dozen metres from the shoreline will soon be demolished. In its place, a brand new, more modern and luxurious hotel is set to arise.

The Crikvenica Hotel International was first opened back in 1964, and in the 1970s it was the heart, centre and symbol of all singing and dancing carnival events for the Crikvenica and Crikvenica-Vinodol area, as well as for the wider Rijeka area which spilled over into it. The hotel was renovated and redesigned back in 1986 and remains an active hotel within the Crikvenica-based hotel company Jadran (Adriatic).

''At this moment in time, I'm not prepared to into too much detail because we believe that the representatives of the City of Crikvenica should be informed about everything first. However, what I can say is that we've started the project and that - on the location of the current hotel, which would be completely demolished - the construction of a five-star hotel is planned, which would also bring some other, completely new accompanying facilities to the city centre which are currently missing,'' Goran Fabris, President of the Management Board of the aforementioned hotel company said in conversation with Novi list, emphasising that this year's summer tourist season was high above anyone's expectations.

Novi list has since learned that the future Crikvenica Hotel International will be a wider and taller building, it should have a spacious passage through the centre of the building and a much larger number of rooms than the previous fifty. Precisely what kind of investment is in question isn't being discussed openly yet.

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