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A Croatian Auto-club (HAK) tourist information point was opened at the Macelj border crossing on Saturday, with Tourism Minister Damir Bajs saying Croatia's tourism sector was ready for the high season. He said most tourists arrived in Croatia by road in the peak months of July and August, adding that arrivals in the first half of 2011 had grown on the year. HAK president Ivo Bikic said the tourist info point opened today was aimed, among other things, at increasing the safety of foreign tourists on Croatian roads. Also, Bajs and HAK secretary general Zvonko Smuk signed a cooperation agreement on a HRK 450,000 Kuna which the Tourism Ministry gave to HAK to co-finance various activities aimed at increasing road safety.

Croatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs, who is on a visit to Moscow on 13-16 June, held talks with some 15 leading Russian tour operators on Tuesday, the Croatian ministry reported on Wednesday. After the talks Minister Bajs expressed expectations of the continuation of a rise in the number of Russians spending holidays in Croatia. The minister said that Russia had become the fastest growing market for the Croatian tourist trade in term of turnover.

The first airplane of the Russian air carrier Aeroflot with some 50 passengers aboard landed at Dubrovnik airport on Wednesday. The next flight from Moscow, scheduled for Friday, is sold out. Dubrovnik airport authorities estimate that some 10,000 Russian tourists will arrive in Dubrovnik aboard Aeroflot aircraft this summer. The direct flight Dubrovnik-Moscow will operate until the end of September - three times a week in June and on a daily basis as of 1 July.