Croatia's national tourist board said on Thursday that six new airline routes connecting cities in France and Croatia would be launched this year by foreign airline companies, which is expected to result in greater numbers of French tourists visiting the country.

According to the board, the Spanish low-cost airline Volotea has plans to launch a scheduled routes flying from Lyon to Dubrovnik and Split, from Marseille to Rijeka, and from Bordeaux to Pula.

The national tourist board said the announcements came in a specialised health tourism fair Les Thermalies held in Paris earlier this month which the board’s delegation attended to promote Croatia and as a spa tourism destination.

Another low-cost airline, EasyJet, announced a direct Nantes-Dubrovnik route. In addition, the French flag carrier Air France announced adding more direct flights connecting Paris and Dubrovnik, as well as a new route from France’s capital to Split.

In 2018 some 592,000 French tourists visited Croatia, who recorded about 2.2 million bed nights, which the board said was 8 percent up from 2017.

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