October the 26th, 2021 - Losinj hotels have been recognised once again for their wellness and spa offers, putting this beautiful part of Croatia firmly on the radar of those tourists who opt for that type of holiday, and there are more and more of them.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, Losinj's popular Hotel Bellevue, a member of the luxury hotel brand Losinj Hotels & Villas, has climbed to the very ''top of the world'' when it comes to spa and wellness offers this year. The Spa Clinic Hotel Bellevue is the winner of the World’s Best Hotel Spa 2021, which has been being awarded by the World Spa Awards for six years in a row now with the aim of promoting and rewarding quality in the increasingly popular spa and wellness industry.

This Losinj hotel also won at the Europe’s Best Hotel Spa 2021 and Croatia’s Best Hotel Spa awards. In the same selection, Vitality Punta from Veli Losinj, another hotel from the Jadranka group, won the title of the best wellness hotel in all of Croatia.

For Losinj hotels, these aren't the only awards in tourism which were won throughout the month of October. As part of the fourteenth International Conference on Cultural Tourism in Europe, which was held on Thursday in Athens, the project of sustainable cultural tourism from Nerezinac camp, also in Losinj, was awarded.

At that conference organised by the European Cultural Tourism Network, this Losinj project won second place in the category "Archaeological Sites and Museums as Cultural Tourism Attractions".

The first place also went to another incredible Croatian museum, the Museum of Krapina Neanderthals and the Husnjakovo site, while the third place went to the City Museum of Zenica. According to the Tourist Board of the town of Mali Losinj, awards were given to various projects from all over Europe in five more categories.

Among the winners were other impressive Croatian museums, for example, the first place in the category "Walking Tourism and Slow Travel - Synergies with Cultural Tourism" was won by the Rab Archaeological Museum, and the Zagreb Chocolate Museum was also a hit.

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August the 18th, 2021 - One popular Losinj hotel group has made quite the serious turn towards the ever-lucrative and promising medical and health tourism sector, which is expected to come on leaps and bounds and rise in popularity in the post-pandemic world.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, with the aim of developing medical tourism, the Losinj hotel group Losinj Hotels & Villas in its Hotel Bellevue has opened up offices for four specialist medical fields - dermatologists, internists, gynecologists and orthopedists, as was reported by Jadranka Hotels.

The guests will be able to have access to the visiting doctor Vedran Franciskovic, university assistant professor and clinician, a specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics, as well as fetal medicine.

Davor Duvancic, a specialist in orthopedic surgery and traumatology who is also a spinal surgeon, who joined the expert team available to the guests of this Losinj hotel group's Bellevue Hotel.

Ana Ivekic Jambrosic, a specialist in dermatology and venereology, will be made available to patients for dermatological, dermatoscopic and venereological examinations, as well as for diagnostic services and the treatment of various skin diseases.

She also performs PRP stem cell therapy, aesthetic treatment for rejuvenation, Ultherapy - non-invasive skin tightening, minor surgical procedures and injection therapy. The team also includes the initiator of outpatient clinics in LH&V brand hotels, Anamarija Margan Sulc, an internal medicine specialist and a master of pharmacology.

''These renowned experts will provide services and implement health programmes using their experiences which are based on research into the health effects of the natural healing factors of the island of Losinj. With their engagement, Hotel Bellevue will be even more strongly positioned among guests who want to combine their time on holiday with medical treatments and stronger healthcare,'' they pointed out from Jadranka Hotels, a Losinj hotel group.

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An economic boost could well be on the cards for Croatian tourism as one of the country's most successful companies within that sector raises employee wages and aims for further expansion for 2019's tourist season.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 5th of November, 2018, after a successful seaso, one of the most successful tourist companies in Croatia, the Jadranka Group from Lošinj, is investing in the salaries of its employees and is looking for reinforcements for next season.

Jadranka Group's education program includes in-house workshops, theoretical lectures and practical training. Among them, the Gastro Academy stands out, and employees are encouraged to focus on improving the skills needed for high-level service at a five-star level.

With internal education, employees have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills and thus attend specialised programs held in external institutions for highly specialised professions such as those in concierge and bartending, to name a couple. Therefore, it comes as no real surprise that in Jadranka hotels, the daughter company of the Jadranka Group, the number of employees has doubled since 2009.

"We believe that salary increases are a logical step in developing the group's business and employee relationships, which are key factors for successful business operations. In the hotel and camping industry, we're constantly increasing from year to year so that along with the improvement of living and working conditions, we give a kind of acknowledgment and gratitude to our employees for our collective success. In addition, this year, we've increased the basic salaries in our commercial sector, for retail, wholesale and food production,'' said Sanjin Šolić, the CEO of the Jadranka Group, who celebrated 30 years of work in Jadranka last year.

When speaking about an economic boost, raising salaries and improving employee conditions come above all else.

Mr. Solić emphasised that one of the group's priorities is to ensure the proper conditions for seasonal employees as soon as possible. With this aim, the raising of the level of the tourist facilities to a four-star level began, in a move which will provide the employees with adequate accommodation and ensure much more enjoyable living conditions during their stay and time spent working there in Lošinj.

Jadranka Group's good attitude towards their seasonal workers speaks volumes in support of the fact that the group is by far one of the most desirable employers on the Croatian coast and islands.

In a further economic boost for the workers and the company, at the end of the season, they offer those workers a type of permanent status, which is a guaranteed job for the next year, as well as all of the rights enjoyed by permanent employees. Jadranka Group employs some 700 permanent employees, while during the tourist season the total number of employees stands at about 1,600, a large number of those employees are deployed in the group's daughters-businesses.

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The Festival of Apoxyomenos and Antiquity is taking place on Lošinj Island between April 27th and May 22nd 2017.

Vitality Hotel Punta from the Lošinj Hotels & Villas group has won at the international awards "Wellness Travel Awards" which is hosted by SpaFinder Wellness 365. Prizes were awarded to 41 countries and regions for the best hotel spa resort that offer an exceptional spa experience. Vitality Hotel Punta was chosen as the best in Croatia.