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TOURIST SEASON IN THE BLACK THANKS TO TOURIST NIGHTSThe first eight months of this year saw more than 49 million tourist nights, up 0.2 per cent from the same time period in 2008, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said in the northern Adriatic resort of Opatija on Tuesday. Tourist boards' initial data for August point to an increase in tourist arrivals and nights, and for the first time the entire season is in the black thanks to tourist nights, Kosor said at a session of a commission coordinating and monitoring activities in tourism this year.
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Tourism minister says additional incentives to be considered Croatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs, National Tourist Board director Niko Bulic, and local city and tourism officials met in the southern Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik on Saturday to discuss the preparation of this coastal area for the 2010 tourist season. Speaking to the press after the closed meeting, Bajs said the Tourism Ministry would consider introducing additional incentives aimed at prolonging tourist stays to seven days or more.
29.08.2009. | Page

Slovak and Croatian police satisfied with tourist safety project
28.08.2009. | Page

Minister reiterates his satisfaction with course of high seasonCroatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs said in Dubrovnik on Friday that despite gloomy predictions of a two-digit downturn, the number of arrivals and overnight stays in the first seven months of this year was five percent and three percent down respectively compared to the same period of last year. Bajs did not hide his satisfaction with the fact that those figures evidenced Croatia's better performance in tourist trade in relation to other Mediterranean countries. The ministry's action plan and intensified promotion of the national tourist trade have contributed to the successful course of the high season, said Bajs and other participants in a meeting of the ministry's task force coordinating activities in this year's tourist season.
21.08.2009. | Page

Rest areas in Croatia receive high marks
20.08.2009. | Page

Tourism minister says past five consecutive weekends saw record arrivals
19.08.2009. | Page

PM believes that tourist season will be successful

Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, who on Friday chaired a session of the government's task group for activities in tourism in 2009, said that she was optimistic about the completion of this year's tourist season and that preparations for the next high season could start. I would like to thank task group members and all employees in the tourist trade for their contribution to what I will define as a successful season, Kosor said at the group's session in the coastal town of Biograd na Moru. Tourism Minister Damir Bajs said that the last four weekends had seen record high arrivals and overnight stays and that the downturn was being slowly reversed.
 

14.08.2009. | Page

Tourism ministry co-funds stay of foreign police during summer season in Croatia Tourism Minister Damir Bajs on Tuesday signed a contract on the ministry"s grant of HRK 200,000 for a HRK 1.5 million project of the international police cooperation in Croatian coastal resorts during the high season. So far, the Interior Ministry donated also HRK 200,000 for this purpose. During the contract-signing ceremony in the Istrian coastal town of Poreč it was reported that in July and August this year, 53 foreign police officers from Austria, Germany, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are being deployed. They are expected to help their fellow-countrymen spending summer holidays in Croatia.11.08.2009. | Page

Tourism minister says arrivals down 5%, overnight stays down 3% Croatian Tourism Minister Damir Bajs said on Friday that in the first seven months of this year tourist arrivals and overnight stays had dropped five and three percent respectively, which he said was not bad in comparison to other Mediterranean countries. In the first seven months of this year, 5.3 million tourists vacationed on the Croatian Adriatic coast, a 5% drop from the same period of last year. They generated 29.7 million overnight stays, a 3% drop from last year, Bajs said at a news conference in the national park Krka. In July, Croatia saw 2.5 million tourist arrivals, a 3% decrease in relation to July 2008. Overnight stays also dropped by three percent to 17.7 million.
07.08.2009. | Page