ZAGREB, March 30, 2018 – Tourism revenues in 2017, when 9.5 billion euro was earned from services provided to foreign guests, are the best proof of how much the Croatian tourism sector has advanced, Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said on Friday.
In his comment on statistics released by the Croatian National Bank on 9.5 billion euro revenues from foreign visitors, a 10% (nearly 860 million euro) increase from 2016, Cappelli said that the number of foreign visitors last year increased by 14% to 16.5 million and their overnight stays by 12% to 90 million year-on-year.
Tourism, coupled with the favourable external environment and progress in structural reforms, is one of the main generators of economic growth, said Cappelli.
If revenues from domestic guests are added, the overall tourism revenues exceeded 11 billion euro, the minister said, adding that all this was evidence of the great headway in the national tourism industry whose share in the national GDP rose by 0.7 percentage points to 19.6% in 2017.
