A proud day for Korcula awaits on September 27, 2018, with the presentation of this year's Vecernji List Tourism Patrol award at the town council meeting.
It is, quite simply, one of the most delightful of Croatian tourist destinations.
Often in the shadow of more flashy neighbours, such as Hvar and Dubrovnik, the island of Korcula has quietly gone about its business building up its tourism aimed at higher-quality, higher-spending guests. No mass tourism here, but rather a focus on the island's considerable strengths - indigenous wines, outstanding food, heritage, tradition, nature and adventure tourism. The only thing I have yet to understand about Korcula is why its most famous son, Marco Polo, ever felt the need to leave such a beautiful paradise...
It seems that Korcula's efforts are being noticed, and its quality tourism approached was recognised earlier this summer, when Korcula was named the coastal champion of the prestigious Tourism Patrol award, Croatia's oldest tourism award, organised by newspaper Vecernji List since 1975. Vecernji reporters visit all the major destinations incognito and assess the quality of the tourism offer of each destination, before announcing a champion. Winners from 2013-2017 were Vis, Trogir, Split, Dubrovnik and Zadar.
Korcula will receive its award tomorrow at 13:00 at the town council meeting. Congratulations!
From a personal point of view, I feel the award is very well-deserved. I have some to know the considerable charms of Korcula somewhat late in life, but have made several visits this year as we launch our Total Korcula portal a few months ago. Here are 13 things I learned about Korcula which I didn't know last year.
