Fixing Croatian Travel European Media Misinformation One Email at a Time

May 31, 2020 – There is a LOT of confusion and misinformation about travel requirements to Croatia at the moment, and it hurting the tourism industry. It is possible to fix, one email at a time.

This is a year for first time experiences.

Yesterday, I wrote to a newspaper about an article correction for the first time in English (I tried last year in Croatia – unsuccessfully – with Slobodna Dalmacija after some naughty local official tried – and continues to try – to slander me, but that’s another story).

The email was to the digital editor of The Irish Times, whose email was on their website.

Here is what I wrote.

Hi Paddy,

I run the English news portal for Croatia and saw your article last night https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-tourists-excluded-from-visiting-greece-and-croatia-1.4266161 which is not entirely accurate – Irish tourists CAN come to Croatia under certain conditions – and it is going to have a damaging effect on Croatia’s tourism from Ireland.

It is not the journalist’s fault, the info is incredibly hard to find, but as I explain in my article, many European media are printing misleading stuff. You can see the real situation in my article just published – crazy rules, but they work and there are Irish people here at the moment.

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/travel/43939-european-media

FYI, this is the master travel article which we update daily – https://www.total-croatia-news.com/editorial/43707-croatia-corona-travel

We also have a lively Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community where your journalists can check the latest, as well as ask questions. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-tourists-excluded-from-visiting-greece-and-croatia-1.4266161

Would it be possible to update the article to give a bit more clarity?

And if you ever need a source for Croatia, Montenegro or Slovenia, we are local and cover all three countries.

cheers Paul Bradbury

Within an hour, we had gone from this:

To this.

Meanwhile, in Belgium…

Total Croatia Travel INFO Viber community member Didier contacted this news portal. We went from borders closed…

… to Belgian tourists are welcome in Croatia.

Lesson learned. If you give journalists the correct information, there is a higher chance that they will print what is really happening. If you give them no information, the effect on the tourism could be highly damaging.

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