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Nearly half a million tourists more visited Croatia in the first seven months of 2011, compared to the same period of the previous year and of that number as many as 300,000 visited the country in low season, Tourism Minister Damir Bajs told reporters during his visit to the northern Croatian town of Varazdin on Thursday. This means we managed to realize two objectives - maintain the market share in Europe and have the guests from Croatia return; Bajs said. "We expected a good season, low season was very good, July was a good indicator of that trend and we expect food results in August as well," Bajs said adding that the season was not over yet and that he expected good results in the coming low season as well.

The first international conference dedicated exclusively to the relationship between tourism and the media is to be held by UNWTO and Croatia under the title Tourism in the Headlines (12-13 September, Zagreb, Croatia). The conference will address why, despite being one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economic sectors, tourism rarely makes the headlines or the economic pages of newspapers. Globally, as an export category, tourism ranks fourth after fuels, chemicals and the automotive industry, yet its economic and development relevance is often overlooked by the media.