Croatia Travel

Special Offer for EasyJet flights

EasyJet, the low cost airline that fly to Split, Croatia is offering £10 per person off for all flights departing from 1st of April to 21st of May 2008.

Tunnel Brinje chosen as best tunnel in Europe for 2007

Last week at Brussels, Hrvatske autoceste – the Croatian Motorways Company was awarded for the tunnel Brinje of motorway Zagreb – Split (A1), as one of the safest European tunnels in 2007.

Novi Vinodolski runs for Golden Flower of Europe 2008

Primošten, a town located near Šibenik, was last year proclaimed Europe’s most attractive settlement while Biograd na moru, near Zadar, took silver. Now the nominations have been made for the next award – the 2008 Golden Flower of Europe. The latest Croatian nominee for the award is the well-known Kvarner area tourist …

Croatia Tourism Statistics for 2007

According to Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) , tourist year 2007 in Croatia closed with record figures. The first draft of 2007 figures are following: Croatia had a total of 10.8 million visits (6% increase compared to 2006), resulting in just over 57 million overnight stays.

Croatia tourist guide on your mobile phone

Ever since the Split-based IT company Gideon Multimedia presented its new version of the mobiEXPLORE cell phone based tourist guide in July last year (www.mobiexplore.com), over three hundred thousand tourists have accessed the guide to inform themselves of the tourist offer, local customs and points of interest, to reserve a table at …

Croatia – the recommended family vacation by NY Times

Beside Morocco and Vietnam, The NY Times recommends Croatia as destination for family vacation for 2008: Under the subtitle “Cave to Casbah: Adventure for All Ages” in the article “Trips to Help Shape the World” NY Times writes:

Croatian Cruising Statistics January to October 2007

According to the Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics (Državni zavod za statistiku – DZS) , Croatia registered during the first ten months of this year 592 cruising trips by foreign cruising ships, which is 8.2% more than in the same period of 2006.

Study on impact of Pelješac Bridge construction presented – Update

Update – The official Peljesac Bridge Study info: The Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development presented in Dubrovnik on Monday a study on the economic, transport and demographic impact of the construction of the Pelješac Bridge.

Study of Peljesac Bridge project

An important infrastructure project of Croatia is Peljesac Bridge, which construction has started a couple weeks ago. This project is one of the four major investment projects in Dubrovnik-Neretva County. The bridge will bypass a short stretch of land at Neum, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s only outlet to the sea, which cuts off the southernmost tip of …

Porec, Croatia – 22nd International Tourism and Catering Equipment Fair

The international fair ‘Promohotel 2007’ is currently going on in Porec, Istria. The fair gathers couple of hundred European companies that specialises in equipment for tourism and catering, as well as hotel furniture and interior design.