As we recently reported, Austria has chosen open its borders to its neighbours. Croatia, as a country with which Austria doesn’t share a direct border, isn’t yet on the list. Despite that, the favourite holiday destination of many Austrians isn’t without Austrian citizens. Currently, there are 1500 Austrian citizens staying in Croatia, providing a much needed boost to the Croatian tourism industry in these trying times.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 4th of June, 2020, trips from Austria to Croatia have intensified in recent days and currently more than 1500 tourists from that country are dotted around Croatia.
Austria recently lifted all of its epidemiological measures for the travel of Austrian citizens to countries with which that country directly borders. As announced, the Republic of Croatia, together with some other countries that are not Austria’s direct neighbours, should be added to that list next week at some point.
As it is known, Croatian tourism has a significant number of guests from Austria and Croatia’s borders are now completely open to Austrian citizens. Given the excellent epidemiological situation that Croatia is lucky to be able to boast of, many in the Croatian tourism sector are convinced that Austria will follow the recommendations of the European Commission (EC) for the full liberalisation of travel to and from countries with similar epidemiological situations.
“The great interest that Croatian tourism records daily in invitations and reservations by Austrian guests is the best possible proof of just how much they want to come to Croatia and we hope that the official policy will listen to the wishes of its citizens along with EU recommendations. Croatia has one of the best epidemiological situations in all of Europe, the international media is ranking Croatia on the list of the safest travel destinations, tourism professionals have raised their services to the highest level and we’re fully ready to welcome our guests,” said Veljko Ostojic, director of the Croatian Tourism Association.
After Germany and Slovenia, Austria is in third place when it comes to the markets with which Croatia has the largest tourist turnover.
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