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Croatian Prime Minister Expresses Full Support for the Tourism SectorUNWTO Secretary-General, Mr. Taleb Rifai, met with the Croatian Prime Minister, Ms. Jadranka Kosor, and the Minister of Tourism, Mr. Damir Bajs, to discuss tourism development in the country during a visit to Croatia (20-21 August, 2010). The Prime Minister expressed her full support for the tourism sector, underlining its crucial role in economic growth and development. Meeting with the Prime Minister, Mr. Rifai praised the resilience of the country’s tourism sector after the recent economic turbulence. The Prime Minister stressed that results for July and August indicate that the country could have one of its best summer seasons this year. Croatia received 9.3 million international tourists in 2009 and US$ 8.9 billion (euro 6.4 billion) in international tourism receipts.
25.08.2010. | Page
25.08.2010. | Page
Lonely Planet: Croatia more popular than ever Croatia continues to be the up and coming celebrity of European travel though, seeing visitor numbers up by 15% by plane and 9% by ship based on last year"s already bumper crop, according to Lonely Planet.
Writing about "hot" travelling trends this summer, the author of the Lonely Planet article published last week, Tom Hall, said that the big summer getaway has begun in earnest. "Dubrovnik Airport carried more passengers on 1 August than in the entire month of February, though with 15,000 people passing through it was a relative backwater compared to the big Spanish hubs," the article said. Hall also recalled a recent visit by Shawshank Redemption star Morgan Freeman who was among the stellar names in Dubrovnik for a meeting of Hollywood big-wigs.
09.08.2010. | Page
Writing about "hot" travelling trends this summer, the author of the Lonely Planet article published last week, Tom Hall, said that the big summer getaway has begun in earnest. "Dubrovnik Airport carried more passengers on 1 August than in the entire month of February, though with 15,000 people passing through it was a relative backwater compared to the big Spanish hubs," the article said. Hall also recalled a recent visit by Shawshank Redemption star Morgan Freeman who was among the stellar names in Dubrovnik for a meeting of Hollywood big-wigs.
09.08.2010. | Page
Tourism minister reports increase in arrivals by plane, shipCroatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs has said that preliminary figures for July show that the number of tourists arriving in Croatia by plane and by ship has increased by 15 and 9 percent respectively in relation to July 2009. The minister made the statement at a meeting of ministry officials and representatives of the Croatian Tourist Board and workers in the public and private tourist sectors, held at the national park Krka on Sunday. The minister said that 90 percent of tourists in Croatia were foreign nationals, while the number of domestic tourists was decreasing, according to a statement from the Tourism Ministry.
01.08.2010. | Page
01.08.2010. | Page
PM Kosor confident Croatia will record good tourist results Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said at the inner session of her cabinet which convened in Lucko, outside Zagreb, on Saturday to discuss the ongoing tourist season, that she was confident Croatia would record good tourist results this season. Stressing that tourism was a very important branch for Croatia, Kosor said that Croatia's advantages as a tourist country were good roads and highways, as a total of 90 percent of tourists were arriving in the country individually by cars. Thanking the prime minister for attending today's session, Tourism Minister Damir Bajs proposed they meet once again this season somewhere at the coast. He said that in the first three weekends of July, a total of 450,000 more foreign tourist entered Croatia compared with the same period last years.
24.07.2010. | Page
24.07.2010. | Page