ZAGREB, September 18, 2019 – Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said in parliament on Wednesday that the results of this year’s tourism season and the year overall were excellent.
Financially, we will reach last year’s 12 billion euro and will have a 3-5% increase, he said during question time, adding that arrivals would be almost 5% higher than last year and nights by about 2%.
In the first six months of the year, there was an increase of 6%, between 3 and 4% in the peak season and, judging by announcements, we expect a 3-4% increase for the remainder of the year, Cappelli said.
He dismissed Social Democratic Party leader Davor Bernardić’s earlier statements that the tourism season had “crashed”, saying the government had taken a serious approach to the industry.
Justice Minister Dražen Bošnjaković spoke of Kristian Vukasović, an 18-year-old who died while serving a prison sentence. We are waiting for the autopsy report, which will reveal the cause of death, he said.
Speaking of judges’ declarations of assets, Bošnjaković said his ministry had created an app for their publication and that talks were under way with the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency to align protection rules.
Željko Reiner of the ruling HDZ asked Economy Minister Darko Horvat to explain the impression in the public sphere that everything was bad, that the economy was unsuccessful and that people were increasingly poor, despite “data showing salary and pension growth and the creation of more than 100,000 jobs.”
“This year, and especially next year, will be a struggle for better living standards for the little man, and I as minister of the economy have no right to be despondent,” Horvat said.
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