Arts & Crafts Fun Festival on Hvar this summer
If you’re visiting Hvar this May and June – or wish to improve on your creative talents in a beautiful setting – you may well be interested to hear about a fantastic arts and crafts festival that is taking place in Hvar Town. Running from 28th May through to the 18th June, the inaugural Arts […]
Seaplanes could link Croatian mainland and its islands
A number of Croatian newspapers this week reported that a German company is to start operating seaplane flights on the Croatian coast, establishing regular lines between the mainland and several of the larger islands. European Coastal Airlines (ECA) plan a first phase of flights later this year, linking Split and Dubrovnik with the islands of […]
Croatian travel agents brought in more foreign tourists in 2010 than in 2009
Newly released statistics show that 5.4% more foreign tourists came to Croatia via the country’s tour operators in 2010 than in the previous year, amounting to about 100,000 more foreign holidaymakers – with 1.83 million tourists booking through Croatian travel agents in total. These holidaymakers stayed in the country for 12.6 million nights, which is about […]
2011 to be a busy year for Split Airport
Following my previous posts this month on how 2011 looks to be a promising year for Zadar Airport and on Split looking forward to a great season, here’s a post that combines those two – looking at how Split Airport is also looking to have a good year! Today’s Slobodna Dalmacija reports that this year, the […]
Croatian hotels’ views on online marketing and sales
A recent survey by Croatian website Posloni Turizam, which concentrates on the promotion of business tourism in Croatia, revealed the extent to which Croatian hotels use the Internet as a means of marketing and to attract sales. The survey, conducted amongst 95 hotels, showed that all have websites (I certainly would not be able to […]
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