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Valamar opens five-star camping site in IstriaIstra Premium Camping Resort 5*, a five-star camping site and one of the best in the Mediterranean, was opened by the Valamar tourism company in Funtana, Istria, on Friday. Investments in the camping site in the last two years amounted to HRK 280 million, the company said. 28.06.2019. | News

China's Shanxi Province seeks to intensify tourist and cultural exchange with CroatiaThe Culture and Tourism Department of China's Shanxi Province, in cooperation with the Croatian-Chinese Friendship Society, in Zagreb on Friday organised a conference on cultural and tourism cooperation between the province and Croatia at which both sides expressed a desire to intensify their cooperation. The conference was organised as part of activities marking 2019 as the year of cooperation between China and Croatia. 21.06.2019. | News

Gov't okays issuance of 3,000 more work permits for foreigners in tourism and constructionThe Croatian government on Wednesday decided to increase the quota for foreign workers in the tourism and hospitality industry as well as in the construction sector following the requests by employers who have warned that labour shortage could undermine the tourist season. Thus, 2,000 more work permits will be issued in the tourist industry, which means that a total number of foreigners hired in this sector rises from 10,611 to 12,611 with a possibility of issuing an additional 1,000 work permits for foreigners, if necessary. 19.06.2019. | News

HGK chief hails decision on more work permits for foreignersPresident of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) Luka Burilovic on Wednesday welcomed a government decision to allow the issuance of more work permits for foreigners in the tourism and construction sectors, saying that "the voice of entrepreneurs has been heard and the voice of reason has prevailed." The government on Wednesday increased the quota for foreign workers by an additional 2,000 in the tourism and hospitality sector and by 1,000 in construction. 19.06.2019. | News

Tourism minister: Gov't to increase quota for foreign workersTourism Minister Gari Cappelli on Tuesday said that the government would increase the quota for foreign workers at a cabinet meeting tomorrow and that the increase should be "satisfactory" for the tourism sector. "We will increase it somewhat... and the increase will be precisely enough to be satisfactory," Cappelli told reporters outside Government House following an inner cabinet meeting. 18.06.2019. | News

Bozinovic: Security is one Croatia's tourism brandsSecurity is one of Croatia's tourism brands and we are doing all we can to improve the standard that we have achieved through good cooperation between the relevant institutions, Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said on Tuesday in Zadar, where a headquarters for the implemention of security measures during the 2019 tourism season was opened. "We are improving year in and year out. Our picture of everything that is happening on land and on the sea is increasingly clear and increasingly good. Last year we recorded 158 million people crossing the border and we are caring for all those people," he said. 18.06.2019. | News

​Croatians spend EUR 1.2 bn on trips in 2018In 2018, 46.5% of the Croatians above 15 years of age travelled at least once, and those 1.7 million people spent 8.7 billion kuna (EUR 1.2 billion) on those several-day-long visits, according to the figures provided by the national statistical office (DZS). Last year, the Croatians made 4.3 million private visits, and nearly two thirds (more than 2.8 million or 64%) were visits inside Croatia, and 36% (1.6 million) were abroad. 17.06.2019. | News

HUT welcomes announced bill on non-appraised landThe Croatian Tourism Association (HUT) on Monday expressed strong support to the government's initiative to amend the law on tourism and construction land which has not yet been appraised, the bulk of which is in the tourism sector. The unresolved issue of the land used for tourist purposes is a major barrier that should be removed so as to eanble the full development of the investment potential of the tourism sector, the HUT says in a press release. 17.06.2019. | News

Travel agencies join appeal to resolve tourism labour shortageThe UHPA and UPA associations of Croatian travel agencies on Monday joined demands for resolving the labour shortage in the tourist season, proposing that workers who repeatedly refuse jobs be stricken from Croatian Employment Service records.  17.06.2019. | News

​Bjelovar swamped by visitors during Terezijana festivitiesOver 40,000 guests visited the town of Bjelovar, 70 kilometres east of Zagreb, on Saturday and Sunday on the occasion of the annual Terezijana festivities in memory to Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa during whose rule in the 18th century that settlement was developed into an urban centre. 16.06.2019. | News