Croatia is developing all-year-round tourism, as evidenced by this year's results when financial and physical output data for the shoulder season, i.e. "pre-season," showed the biggest rise, and increases like that are expected for the post-season too, Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said at a conference on this topic on Tuesday.
The third edition of the annual conference “Can the Croatian Tourism 365?” was organised by the Julius Rose company and brought together a number of domestic and foreign experts who are “ready to share their knowledge and positive experiences and participate in well-conducted panel discussions”, the organiser says on the website of the conference.
Commenting on efforts to develop year-round tourism, Minister Cappelli said that headway had been made in many segments of this sector by high-quality approaches and models to extend the tourist season.
He said that the ongoing extension of the season was not happening by chance and that it was the result of endeavours by all stakeholders in the tourist trade.
The minister says that these efforts have been supported, among other things, by the government’s decision to allocate over 70 million kuna in the last two years for an increase in air traffic, “as a result of which the flight season has been extended by more than 30 days in both years, bringing more and more tourists to hotels, travel agencies, airports and elsewhere.”
Cappelli reassured the conference that the authorities would continue implementing these measures in 2020, too.
He mentioned the organisation of the Croatian Tourism Days in Slavonia soon.
The Tourism Ministry has recently made public the programme of this year’s Croatian Tourism Days, to be held in a number of towns in the region of Slavonia on October 2-4, which is the first time the traditional meeting of tourism workers will be organised in inland Croatia.
Dragan Kovacevic of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) told the conference that digital technologies also played an important role in plans to develop year-round tourism. He informed the conference of forecasts that this year’s tourism revenues might markedly exceed last year’s result of €12 billion.
