Only tourists from Poland, Kosovo and Turkey generated an increase in bed nights in August this year compared to last year's August, while figures for tourists from more than 70 countries were significantly lower, with decreases from 20% to 90%, an analysis of eVisitor data by Hina shows.
Despite worldwide restrictions on travel due to the pandemic, in August Croatia's tourism fared the best, with 2.6 million arrivals and 21.05 million bed nights, which is 46.1% or 36.3% respectively less than in August 2019.
Foreign tourists accounted for 85% of arrivals in August and for 81.2% of bed nights, with 2.2 million foreign tourists coming to Croatia and generating 17.1 million bed nights. Compared to August 2109, that was a decrease of 51.4% and 41% respectively.
Even though it seemed that this summer most tourists would come from European countries, the eVisitor portal indicates that tourists from around the world, from over 70 countries, arrived in Croatia in August. Even though their numbers were significantly lower than last year in August, not one foreign market recorded zero bed nights.
Seven European countries closest to Croatia - Germany, Slovenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria and Hungary - generated 65% of all bed nights in August while domestic tourists account for 20% and 15% were by tourists from over 60 other countries.
Only tourists from Kosovo, Turkey and Poland generated an increase in bed nights on the year.
Turkish tourists generated 22,000 bed nights (+6.5%), while those from Kosovo generated 25,000 nights (+84.2%) and an increase of 32% more arrivals, or 4,100 in all, while there were 3,900 arrivals from Turkey, down 42.6% on the year. (Tatjana Miščančuk/Hina/FaH)
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