According to the USTOA, the association of the American tour operators, Croatia has been proclaimed the top tourist destination in 2008.
A total of 215,025 tourists from the U.S.A. and Canada visited Croatia in 2007, which was an increase by 17 percent as compared with 2006.

An interesting Croatian tourism statistics of 2007 is published by Tourism Institute who compiled data obtained by a survey conducted during the summer 2007 in just under houndered of Croatian tourist resorts.
In brief, the statistics shows that tourists visiting Croatia last year have spent 55 Euro per day which is

As stated at the Croatian Tourist Board session and reported by Croatian media, although detailed tourism outlook for Croatia is not as yet completely clear,

What’s new in the Old World - Europe Spring Preview  is a new travel article written by Rick Steves for San Francisco Chronicle in which he shares tips on what’s opened, what’s changed and how to save time and money enjoying it all.
This is what he says about Croatia:

I must admit that on my latest visit to Zagreb, I somehow got obsessed with overwhelming advertising attacks on my consumerism-non-adjusted soul.