October 3, 2019 - Gol.hr reports that Romanian cyclist Eduard-Michael Grosu, a member of the French Delko Marseille team, won the second stage of the CRO Race, which ran on Wednesday on the 183 km route from Slunj to Zadar. Grosu also took the overall lead in the stage.

Grosu also celebrated in Zadar last year. With a good knowledge of the final kilometers, he attacked a kilometer ahead of the finish line, quickly acquiring the 20-meter advantage he managed to keep to the finish. The second place went to Australian Alexander Edmondson from the Mitchelton-Scott team and third to the first stage winner Slovenian Marko Kump from Adria Mobil.

In the third stage, the blue t-shirt intended for the best sprinter will be worn by Kump, the green by Austrian Markus Wildauer (Tyrol KTM), and white by Kazakhstani Vadim Pronski (Astana).

The second stage of this year's CRO Race took cyclists through two national parks, Plitvice Lakes and Northern Velebit.

The town of Slunj justified its status as an extremely hospitable host at the start of the second stage. The numerous locals warmly greeted the cyclists in the center of the town before the start and wished them a happy journey. The beginning of the race was signaled by the mayor of Slunj, Jure Katić, and very soon after, five cyclists stood out from the leading group - Austrians Markus Wildauer (Tyrol KTM), Daniel Lehner (Felbermayr Simplon), Dominic Hrinkow (Hrinkow Advarics), Australian Benjamin Hill (Ljubljana Gusto Santic) and Dutchman Jens van den Dool (Metec-TKH).

The five quickly built up an advantage of over five and a half minutes and scored points after passing the first goal entering Plitvice Lakes National Park, and at Jezerce five kilometers later.

Unfortunately, adverse weather conditions followed the cyclists as they continued. After passing through the refreshment area in the middle of the stage, heavy rain began to fall, and the temperature dropped significantly. With the fall in temperature, the leaders of the group started to weaken. At the beginning of the second ascent of the day in the Velebit Nature Park, the peloton was just over two minutes ahead, led by the Slovenian team Adria Mobil. Delko Marseille and Vital Concept took the lead in the leading group, reducing the edge of the top five to just 47 seconds.

Fortunately, during the descent from Velebit to Maslenica, the weather subsided and the rain stopped.

Soon afterward, seven cyclists stood out from the leading group - Austrians Florian Kierner and Stephan Rabitsch (Felbermayr Simplon), Dutchmen Dylan Bouwans and Stef Krul (Metec-TKH), Frenchman Matthieu Jeannes (Illuminate), Polak Maciej Paterski (Wibatech Merx) and German Jonathan Dinkler (P&S Metalltechnik).

At no point was their advantage greater than a minute, so Kierner, Rabitsch and Dinkler soon gave up the run, while Bouwmans, Krul, Jeannes and Paterski persisted for the last six kilometers before the finish. The leading four were ahead by about 10 seconds. Eduard-Michael Grosu ultimately came out on top. 

Results

1. Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rum/DMP) 4:24:39
2. Alexander Edmondson (Aus/MTS) +3
3. Marko Kump (Slo/ ADR)
4. Mattia Frapporti (Ita/ANS)
5. Matej Mohorič (Slo/TBM)
6. John Mandrysch (Njem/PUS)
7. Paolo Simion (Ita/BRD)
8. Timon Loderer (Njem/HAC)
9. Heinrich Haussler (Aus/TBM)
10. Bert de Backer (Bel/VCB) 

Overall Results 

1. Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rum/DMP) 8:51:52
2. Marko Kump (Slo/ ADR) +5
3. Alexander Edmondson (Aus/MTS) +13
4. Jevghenij Gidič (Kaz/AST) +13
5. Matej Mohorič (Slo/TBM) +14
6. Alexis Guerin (Fra/DMP) +17
7. Adam Yates (VB/MTS) +18
8. Arvid de Kleijn (Niz/MET) +19...

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September 27, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Zadar, Dubrovnik, and Zagreb. 

Avio Radar reports that Austrian national carrier Austrian Airlines, a member of the Star Alliance global airline association, is launching a new route to Croatia in the summer of 2020. Namely, Austrian Airlines will connect Vienna and Zadar every day next year. Zadar will be the fourth Austrian Airlines' destination in Croatia, after the long-standing connections to Zagreb, Dubrovnik, and Split. 

This route will begin operating seven flights a week from the first day of the 2020 summer flights schedule, or March 29, 2020. An Airbus A320 aircraft will serve this line. 

But that’s not the only news coming from Austria. 

Furthermore, Ex-Yu Aviation reports that Austrian low-cost airline Lauda will launch seasonal flights between Vienna and Dubrovnik from March 29 next year, operating two times a week, on Thursdays and Sundays. This new route will compete directly against Austrian Airlines and Level. 

The Lauda line will leave Vienna on Thursdays at 14:55, arriving in Dubrovnik at 16:20, while it will leave on Sunday at 6:00, arriving in Dubrovnik at 7:25. 

Ryanair's B737-800 equipment will operate on this service, even though the flights are marketed by Lauda.

To end this week of travel, Avio Radar reports that Franjo Tudjman Airport was recognized in the category of airports with less than 4 million passengers at the 25th World Routes Aviation Forum held in Adelaide, Australia. 

The annual World Routes Awards were held at the Adelaide Convention Center on September 23, 2019. The awards are highly regarded in the aviation industry for recognizing marketing services that support new and existing airport services, as well as excellence and innovation in route development. 

Zagreb Airport recorded 3.34 million passengers last year, which is an increase of 8%, following a 12% increase in 2017. After introducing Emirates in 2017, three new carriers have been launched from Zagreb in 2018, of which two operate long-haul flights and bring a number of new destinations. Firstly, in the spring, Aegean Airlines introduced direct flights to Athens, while Croatia Airlines opened two new destinations - Dublin and Mostar. In June, Air Canada Rouge opened its second direct line between Zagreb and Toronto, and in September 2018, the first flights to the Far East began thanks to Korean Air, connecting Zagreb and Seoul throughout the year. 

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September 19, 2019 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for new flights to Croatia with updates from Zadar and Split.

Dutch low-cost airline Transavia has announced their 2020 flight schedule. Flights to Croatian destinations remain mostly with the same number of flights as this year, though the airline has chosen to boost operations to Zadar next year. 

Namely, Avio Radar reports that the route between Rotterdam/The Hague and Zadar began operating this year from July with two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Next year, this line will begin operations two months earlier, from April 18. In the preseason, there will be two flights a week, and in July and August, an additional third flight per week on Mondays. A Boeing 737-700 aircraft or larger Boeing 737-800 will service this line. 

Furthermore, Avio Radar reports that larger aircraft will fly on the charter lines of Scandinavian travel agency Apollo next year. Namely, Apollo has contracted charter flights for Croatia with the Danish airline JetTime for the 2020 flight schedule. This includes two lines - Gothenburg - Split and Copenhagen - Split. Both charter lines will run once a week, on Saturdays, From May 9 to October 3, 2020. A Boeing 737-700 aircraft is expected to service this route, while a smaller British Aerospace ARJ-100 flew this year by Swedish regional airline Braathens. 

Croatia’s nine commercial airports are on schedule to handle over eleven million passengers in 2019, which is an increase compared to 2018’s 10.5 million. 

Ex Yu Aviation reports that Croatia recorded the 7th largest passenger growth in the European Union so far this year, behind Austria, Latvia, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, and Malta, but ahead of the remaining 21-member states. Namely, from January to August, Croatian airports handled 8,285,615 travelers, which is up 8.7%. 

Dubrovnik Airport recorded an additional 240,016 passengers compared to last year, though Split Airport continues to be the busiest in Croatia. 

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September 14, 2019 - The Zadar Heritage 2020 project will preserve, revitalize and integrate cultural heritage in the protected historic core of the city.

HRTurizam writes that on Monday, September 16, 2019, works will begin on the ground of Ulica Bedemi in Zadar (Ulica Bedemi zadarskih pobuna). The works will be carried out within the project "Zadar Heritage - Integrated Cultural Program of the City of Zadar 2020" to preserve, revitalize, and integrate cultural heritage in the protected part of Zadar.

Thus, Bedemi Street in Zadar will be closed to all traffic, and within the scope of the construction site, a temporary traffic regulation will be in place during the construction, while all traffic will take place on the Liburnska Obala. The new traffic regulation will temporarily allow access to vehicles of those who already live and operate in the area, the City of Zadar said.

The main goal of the Zadar Heritage project is to create a new integrated cultural and tourism product of the city of Zadar by renewing and enhancing the immovable cultural assets and improving the system for managing and promoting the tourist destination.

Since the project envisages that after the restoration and revitalization, the Zadar fortification system, which is also included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, will become a city promenade free of traffic and vehicles, that is, a pedestrian zone, the City of Zadar is working on a permanent solution to relieve the peninsula from vehicles and traffic by constructing a public garage on Ravnice.

Also, upon the recent completion of Branimir coast, the citizens and guests of Zadar will again have access to the parking lot at "Ljepotica" and the existing parking facilities will be expanded in Jazine and Ravnica. 

The Zadar Heritage project is aimed at preserving, revitalizing and integrating cultural heritage in the protected historical part of Zadar, which is entered in the register of immovable cultural property of the Republic of Croatia. The project will strengthen the capacities of local stakeholders in the field of cultural heritage management and presentation, while positioning the integrated cultural product of Zadar and destinations in general on the market. This will thus increase the attractiveness of Zadar, reduce the seasonality of tourism by developing selective forms of tourism - cultural tourism, increase the percentage of tourists who choose a destination for cultural attractions and, consequently, encourage the further development of entrepreneurship in tourism and new employment.

The project will meet the cultural and tourist needs of both tourists and locals, and contribute to increasing the attractiveness of the area as a tourist destination through stronger integration of cultural heritage sites (Duke’s Palace, defensive walls) into the social and economic life of Zadar.

“Further strategic investments in the infrastructure of cultural heritage facilities and strengthening the capacity to promote and position Zadar as a cultural and tourist destination will contribute to attracting new private investments in the tourism sector and, consequently, create new jobs, which will contribute to the overall economic development of the City of Zadar. Further development of cultural tourism will contribute to reducing the seasonality of tourism and focusing on the summer months, which will greatly reduce the burden on the tourism sector and enable the sustainable development of tourism in the city of Zadar,” reads the Zadar Heritage website. 

You can read more about the project here. 

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September 2, 2019 - Rita Ora in Zadar, a stunning tourism promotion success in a packed stadium, or an embarrassing and expensive failure? Just ask the Zadar taxpayer.

Full disclosure - I had no idea who Rita Ora was before the hype started ahead of her recent concert in Zadar. As I stopped listening to new music in 1985 with The Smiths, that is more a reflection on me than her. 

But then I started hearing her name a LOT. Press releases, media invitations to the concert. It was disproportionate and a little annoying to get this constant barrage in my inbox. Obviously things were not going as well as the organisers had planned, I thought to myself, before thinking no more of Rita Ora.

Until the next press release/media invitation hit my inbox. 

Several people messaged me about how the concert was a fiasco in the making, but as I was in Kuala Lumpur at the Medical Travel Media Awards at the time, I paid little attention to it. 

And now that the concert has happened, I find that Rita Ora is taking up rather a lot of media space in the Croatian media, although the press releases have mercifully stopped. But it it not quite the media coverage that the London-born Kosovar pop star or the Zadar Tourist Board might have been looking for. 

Or the Zadar taxpayer, which faces a bill of almost 100,000 euro (724,000 kuna) for the concert, which allegedly failed to live up to expectations in terms of popularity, ticket sales and revenue generation. The 724k figure comes from Denis Karlovic from Visnjik, the company tasked with pulling off the event. Ticket sales totalled 1,113,890 kuna, and income from sponsors and marketing came to 862,000 kuna, a total of1.975, according to Karlovic. Rita Ora's fee was 1.7 million kuna and other costs amounted to 1 million kuna, leaving the shortfall to be picked up by the taxpayer. 

I looked into the story a little more, and it does begin to look a little curious. With such a huge outlay of money, one would have thought that one would have done a little due diligence, and with such a spectacular failure, one might expect someone to take responsibility (apart from the poor taxpayer taking financial responsibility), but this is The Beautiful Croatia, where such things do not happen. 

There is a very interesting analysis of the whole story in Jutarnji List, and it seems that that Ora did not even perform the full hour contracted, her microphone malfunctioned during the third song but her voice was unaffected, and there were not as many backing dancers as promised. 

But one of the main talking points concerns our old friend this summer, statistics. As you can see from the official Rita Ora Twitter account, she had a blast, playing to 60,000 fans, which is a little curious as the venue was apparently moved from an open-air venue to a concert arena with 9,000 seats, some of which could not be used as they were behind the stage. 

But let's say that Rita's numbers were right, and there were indeed 60,000 fans packed into a stadium of 9,000. With ticket sales reported officially at 1,113,890, that would put the ticket price at 18.56 kuna each, or about 2.5 euro. 

Except that even at that price, the concert was not sold out. Karlovic reports that there were 900 free tickets distributed (perhaps there was one for me in all those press releases) and reports say that only about 4,500 seats were actually sold. Some sources told me that tickets were even left on car windscreens at the last minute to try and fill the stadium. 

Still, officially the night was a roaring success. In addition to Rita Ora telling the world that there were 60,000 people there (her social media reach will probably quickly establish this as fact), the man apparently behind the whole thing was Zadar Tourist Board director, Mario Paleka, was very satisfied with the whole thing:

This is a great and spectacular concert for which Zadar is ready.

As can be seen, it was an extremely high-quality production, and the performance of Rita Ora in Zadar is also a great tourism promotion not only for the city but of the whole of Croatia.

A great job has been done and I thank everyone who participated in it to make the concert a successful one. This is definitely the direction in which we continue to develop in tourism.

As previously written on TCN, Paleka is a political appointee with little experience in tourism before his appointment almost a year ago. 

It would appear, one might suggest, that he perhaps has less experience in the economics of organising concerts.

But with the pop star telling the world about 60,000 people in a sold-out stadium which has just 9,000 seats, and the Zadar Tourism Board director telling the world that the evening was a great success, eveything is perfect in The Beautiful Croatia and this is how history will record this memorable night, right?

I am sure that the Croatian taxpayer is looking forward to seeing the Kings of Accidental Tourism answer Paleka's call to continue developing tourism with a strategy of charging them 100,000 euro for each failed concert. Another splendid initiative, and another symbol of life in The Beautiful Croatia - such a shiny exterior, a little less so when you look a little deeper. 

One area where the statistics do not lie is the YouTube view count. With such a massive success, one would expect the concert to have been shared all over the world. Well...

Apart from the heavily promoted trailer (530,000 views), the next most popular result if you search for 'Rita Ora Zadar' has almost 16,000 views - her concert last year in Porec... 

As for actual coverage of the concert, the most popular video has just 8,500 views. After that come videos from the Croatian media (hardly the target market for promoting Croatian tourism internationally), followed by one Leonardo Kolman, who has racked up an impressive 214 views so far. You can check out the full list here. 

Great job, Zadar! And now tell us, who do you have lined up for next year and how much will it cost us, so that we can start saving now?

As Slobodna Dalmacija/Lada Burcul writes on the 14th of August, 2019, on Wednesday, Danish tourists were kicked out of the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar. Why? Because they came in with an assistance dog.

''They were thrown out of the church and nobody even thought for a second that the woman with the dog was disabled and the dog was her assistance dog. Disgusting, sad, and unacceptable. The Danish tourists to whom this happened called us and told us bitterly what happened to them in the middle of the day at the cathedral in Zadar,'' says Mira Katalenić, president of the Association for Dog Training and Mobility, which is based in Zagreb.

As this association is a member of an international organisation, tourists from Denmark found their details in Zagreb and contacted them.

''What did you advise them?'' Slobodna Dalmacija asked Katalenić.

''To contact the police. The church is a public space and they're legally entitled, in the event that the dog is an assistance dog, to enter this sacred building. I asked my colleagues in the association, half jokingly, whether we should go to Zadar and educate the priests about it?'' said Mira Katalenić, who then informed the public about everything.

''However, the Zadar police told us that the tourists from Denmark didn't contact them on Wednesday to report that they had been kicked out of the cathedral. We contacted the cathedral's pastor, who confirmed that the Danish tourists were kicked out of the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar,'' she stated.

''A man and a woman with a huge black dog entered. Indeed, no one could have known that it was an assistance dog, it wasn't apparent that either of them was a disabled person. In the church, we always have two guards, one who speaks English, and another who speaks as many as three world languages, and they should have contacted one of them to tell them that this was an assistance dog. They walked around the church, and when they were warned [about the dog], they reacted very abruptly,'' the pastor of Zadar Cathedral claimed.

According to the Zadar Cathedral's pastor, one of the called guards called the archbishop's pastoral associate, Branimir Buturić, because of the situation was on the verge of becoming a more serious incident.

''He's my secretary, he came to the church immediately, ordered everyone to leave and simply closed the cathedral for a short time. There was no other way,'' claimed the pastor, who, he says he cannot understand why the Danish tourists didn't immediately inform someone there that the dog was an assistance dog.

''This is an exceptional situation and no one would object [to the dog's presence], they would have walked around the church with the dog and that's it. However, instead of explaining, they attacked anyone who tried to reach out to them.

In the end, no one really knew what was going on. It is important to emphasise that on the door of the cathedral, there's a large poster with drawings with warnings about entering the church: one cannot enter with ice cream, with a drink, improperly dressed, or with a dog... This is very noticeable and they should have clearly stated why they have dog. I mean, we also have a ramp for the disabled, everyone has the right to visit the cathedral,'' concluded Pinčić.

This reasoning did not, however, satisfy the president of the Dog Training Association, Mira Katalenić, who told us that education in Zadar is obviously "miserable", that this is the third case that people with assistance dogs have been kicked out of Zadar's churches in the past eight years, and that caretakers should have approached the married Danish couple discreetly with the dog and ask whether or not the dog is an assitance dog. That way, as Katalenić concludes, this unfortunate incident would not have occurred in the first place.

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August 15, 2019 - European industry trade association 'ACI Europe' released the statistical reports for June and the first six months of this year on Wednesday, which revealed even more exciting news for the already record-breaking Zadar Airport.

Namely, Avio Radar reports that in 2019, Zadar Airport was named among the five busiest airports in Europe in ‘Group 4’, or small regional airports with a turnover of up for 5 million passengers. 

In Group 4, from the beginning of the year to June 30, 2019, Zadar Airport reported the second-highest growth in Europe, with an excellent 37.6% growth compared to the same period last year. Ohrid Airport recorded the highest growth in the same period with 62.9%. 

When looking at the numbers for June 2019 within Group 4, Zadar Airport was ranked fourth with 41.8% growth compared to the same month last year. 

Recall, in July alone, Zadar Airport transported 145,362 passengers, which is up 27.1% compared to last year and an absolute record for passenger numbers at this airport. 

From January to July 31, 2019, 441,000 passengers were served at Zadar Airport, which is up 34% compared to last year. The trend is expected to continue until the end of the year, when more than 750,000 travelers should come through Zadar Airport, which would be a 25% increase in traffic compared to 604,000 in 2018. 

Furthermore, if we look at the countries in Europe, therefore, traffic in all airports of a single country in the first half of the year, Croatia comes in second place with a 10.5% increase in traffic. In first is Austria with 20%, and in third is Estonia with the same growth as Croatia - 10.5%. 

ACI Europe is a European organization bringing together 500 airports from 45 European countries. Its members represent 90% of Europe’s commercial air transport with one 2.3 billion passengers, 21.2 million tonnes of goods and 25.7 million airline operations. 

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The New York Times published its recent visit to Zadar on August 6, 2019, running away from the advertised attractions for the discovery of something altogether more delightful. 

There are many clickbait lists of places you have to visit on the Internet. 10 Places to Visit Before You Die, 10 Must-See Destinations in 2019, that kind of thing. Most exist purely for the clicks, and the content is usually thin to non-existent. 

There are exceptions, and one of the most respected lists (and most eagerly anticipated) is the New York Times annual 52 Places to Go in... (Insert Year), one for each week of the year. 

This year's list included Zadar, and Times journalist Sebastian Modak is currently on a tough assignment - visiting all 52 places to document his impressions. 

His piece on Zadar, published three days ago, was both excellent and thought-provoking, for it showed a side to Zadar and its surroundings which was both idyllic and away from the crowds, as well as capturing aspects of the Zadar experience which are rarely - if at all - spoken about and promoted by the tourism chiefs. 

While the selfie-stick owners headed in their thousands to snap what Alfred Hitchcock described as the most beautiful sunset in the world, Modak fled in search of a Zadar without the tourism stereotypes and outside of the guidebooks. 

With a bit of luck, he found what he was looking for and more, and his article paints as charming a picture of the real Zadar away from the tourism crowds as I have read anywhere. 

Read his article Giving Up the Battle for Peak Sunset here. 

The KK Zadar basketball club brought the soundest reinforcement in recent years on the eve of preparations - 26-year-old playmaker Tony Wroten, who has had notable appearances in the NBA.

Wroten was drafted as the 25th pick in Memphis in 2012 before moving to Philadelphia where he had a significant impact. In the 2013/2014 season, Wroten scored 13 points, three assists, and 3.2 rebounds. It was then that he also achieved his first triple-double in a 123-117 win against the Houston Rockets (18 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists), reports HRT on August 5, 2019.

The 198-centimeter-tall Wroten started even better the following season with 16.9 points, 5.2 assists, and 1.6 steals in 30 games played. But unfortunately, in January 2015, he was hit by a severe knee ligament injury, surgery and a long break from the court. 

Since then, Wroten was unable to make a strong comeback to the NBA and instead spent his fortune in the NBA Development League. Thus, on November 11, 2015, Wroten joined the Delaware 87ers, to gradually prepare for his return to the court, which he welcomed in early December of that year and joined training with the Philadelphia team. Wroten did not have to wait long, and in the same month, he played in the game against the Denver Nuggets, in which he scored 4 points during his 13 minutes spent on the court.

Shortly afterward, Wroten joined the New York Knicks, where he played no official games, but returned to where it all began - the Memphis Grizzlies. Unfortunately, he did not manage to make an impression on coach David Joerger and failed to have a single appearance this time. Wroten tried to get back in shape by playing for NBA Development League teams like the Texas Legends and Rio Grande Valley Vipers but ultimately made his way to the Estonian BC Kalev and VTB, where he averaged 15.7 points with 5.7 assists.

On Monday, Worten signed a one-year contract with Zadar.

[ITS OFFICIAL: Tony Wroten is the new @KKZadar playmaker]

Tony, welcome to Zadar!

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— KK Zadar (@kkzadar) August 4, 2019

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A look at the two busiest airports in Croatia this summer - Split and Zagreb.

At the end of last month, TCN reported that Zagreb Airport should see a 5% increase in passengers this year. 

"Since the start of the concession, at the end of 2013, until today, Zagreb Airport has recorded a 45% increase in passenger numbers. Growth is continuing this year as well in line with our plans and expectations,” the airport said.

However, July was expected to be a bit slower than last year thanks to the absence of the World Cup. 

Namely, Ex Yu Aviation reports that Zagreb Airport handled 366,242 passengers in July, which is a 3.4% drop compared to 2018, while the number of aircraft movements was down 2.4%. However, from January to July this year, Zagreb Airport welcomed 1,900,347 travelers, which is up 2.7% or an additional 49,411 passengers. 

Zagreb Airport anticipates an even higher increase in passengers in the first six months of 2020 when Croatia takes on the presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Split Airport, on the other hand, is experiencing record numbers this summer. Just after it unveiled its brand new terminal building, Split Airport recorded the busiest month ever - 723,048 passengers in July,  which is up 4%! Split is not far off from Zagreb when it comes to the number of travelers in the first seven months of this year, either. Namely, from January to July, Split handled 1,825,166 travelers, which is up 6.4% or an additional 109,029 passengers compared to last year. 

But Zadar Airport is also experiencing a record year. Avio Radar reports that in July alone, the airport transported 145,362 passengers, which is up 27.1% compared to last year. This is an absolute record for passenger numbers at this airport. 

From January to July 31, 2019, 441,000 passengers were served at Zadar Airport, which is up 34% compared to last year. The trend is expected to continue until the end of the year, when more than 750,000 travelers should come through Zadar Airport, which would be a 25% increase in traffic compared to 604,000 in 2018. 

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