Croatia Travel News Archive - 2006 February

27.02.06 - Dubrovnik Airline Purchases Five Jets - Croatia's new charter operator Dubrovnik Airline is completing its purchase of five MD-82/83 jets from an Indonesian leasing firm ahead of the main tourist season on the Adriatic coast, company officials said on Saturday. General Manager Zeno Singer said the company - which focuses on flying tourists from Northern and Western Europe to Dubrovnik, Croatia's best-known resort - expects to carry 180,000 passengers this year, more than double the number in its first year of operation in 2005. ... read more...

21.02.06 - Croatia UNESCO Heritage on Posters : A growing interest in Croatian cultural heritage, coupled with the efforts of those working in tourism to promote it, are the moving force behind a new Croatian National Tourist Board poster series featuring motifs of areas under UNESCO protection.read more...

20.02.06 - BOSNIAN FILM 'GRBAVICA' WINS GOLDEN BEAR AT BERLIN FESTIVAL - The film entitled 'Grbavica" by a young Bosnian director, Jasmila Zbanic, won the top award at the international film festival in Berlin. ... read more...

19.02.06 - Dalmatian.hr new low cost airline plans cheap flights from USA, Canada and Australia to Croatia for Summer 2006 : - The first low cost long haul air carrier Dalmatian.HR could be starting its flights in Summer 2006,. Their prices would be 40 % cheaper than it's competitors. The airline company would be called Dalmatian.hr, with headquarters in Dalmatian city of Sibenik.... read more...

12.02.06 - Summer in Croatia: The cement mixer is banned. The rising star of the Med is all style and simplicity, says James Stewart at Sunday Times Travel: Croatia has had a barnstorming couple of summers, with everyone from Sunday Times readers to Lonely Planet scribes voting it their number-one, absolute favourite for a Mediterranean escape. But even if you’ve visited in the past year or two, it’s unlikely that you’ve done the place justice just yet. Seen Dubrovnik? Then look to inland Istria, terra magica for the Romans, terra incognita for foreigners. Done Brac and the islands? Then you really ought to try the rugged wine country of the Peljesac, or sleepy Vis, which are only just waking up to tourism. read whole article...

11.02.06: Croatian Museum displays first mechanical pencil, invented in 1906 : ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - A Croatian museum displayed the world's first mechanical pencil, marking the 100th anniversary of its invention by a Croat. Slavoljub Penkala's mechanical pencil, which uses a mechanism to push a long lead refill, received the patent as the first such pencil in the world in 1906.... read more...

03.02.06 - Croatia New foodie Frontier: Independent UK tour operator My Croatia has launched its 2006 specialist-holiday brochure featuring private, tailor-made gourmet and discovery holidays in Croatia. Packed with evocative images and enticing itineraries, My Croatia’s 2006 brochure is a must for discerning travellers in search of unique gourmet experiences in areas of outstanding natural beauty. ...read more..

02.02.06 - WizzAir announces cheap flights to Split from London Luton - Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announced at a press conference in Zagreb

today that it would start flights from Split to London Luton and Budapest and increase frequencies on its existing Zagreb-London Luton route as of 1 May 2006. ... read more...

01.02.06: TERRA INCOGNITA 2006 – 7th edition. Croatia, 19th- 24th September 2006
The only two teams member expedition style adventure race in the world!   www.adventurerace.hr : Welcome to the 7th edition of Terra Incognita expedition race - the only two teams member expedition style adventure race in the world! This year for the first time Terra Incognita will change forrmat form 4 to 2 member teams, becoming the only two teams member expedition style adventure race in the world! ... read more..