July 11, 2020 — Half-a-million tourists are in Croatia, a new high for the year.
According to the eVisitor system, which includes tourist traffic realized in the commercial and non-commercial segments and in the nautical industry, more than 500,000 tourists are staying in Croatian destinations, of which about 430,000 are foreign tourists.
It’s the first time this year Croatia crossed that threshold. Most foreign guests are from Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
“We generate the largest tourist turnover from those markets where we carry out intensive promotional activities aimed at positioning our country as an interesting, but above all safe tourist destination,” said Kristijan Staničič, head of the Croatian National Tourist Board, in a press release. “The achieved results prove that we succeeded in that because Croatia is one of the few tourist destinations in the Mediterranean where tourist traffic is realized.
“We expect guests from distant non-European markets, but also from the UK, France or Scandinavia during mid-July, with an increase in the number of airlines that will positively affect the overall traffic in the country, especially the results of destinations in central and southern Dalmatia.”
Almost 600 thousand arrivals were realized in Croatia (46 percent of the results achieved during the same period last year) and 4.4 million overnight stays (53 percent of the results achieved during the same period last year) in the period between July 1 and July 10.
Looking at overnight stays realized in the same period by counties, most of them were realized in Istria (1.2 million overnight stays), Primorje-Gorski Kotar (975,000 overnight stays) and Zadar County (819,000 overnight stays). They are followed by Split-Dalmatia County with 706,000 overnight stays, Šibenik-Knin County with 321,000 overnight stays, Dubrovnik-Neretva County with 188,000 overnight stays and Lika-Senj County with 167,000 overnight stays in July.
Looking at the destinations, most overnight stays so far in July were realized in the destinations Vir, Rovinj, Medulin, Mali Lošinj, Poreč, Umag, Crikvenica and others.
