ZAGREB, January 1, 2019 – Croatia recorded 19.7 million tourist arrivals and over 106 million overnights throughout 2018, which was respectively by 6.5% and 4% more than in 2017. These statistics were presented by the director of the Croatian National Tourism Board (HTZ), Kristjan Staničić, in the resort of Opatija on the first day of 2019.
He said that activities promoting Croatia’s tourist trade were being intensively conducted on the markets from which large numbers of tourists usually come to Croatia.
Staničić commented that investments in the tourism sector in 2018 amounted to a billion euro and that the same level of investments could be expected in 2019.
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