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Wizz Air Stops Flights on Three Lines to Split Airport

2020-09-08 by Argophilia Travel News

Wizz Air

Wizz Air has changed its summer flight schedule on three routes to Split Airport.

Tags: air travel, Croatia, Croatia flights, Croatia vacations, Croatian Aviation, Wizz Air, Wizz Air flights

Greece, Germany, Italy, and Eight Other EU States Agree on Travel Zone

2020-05-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Croatia coast

Greece and ten other European Union member states agreed on a set of principles to ensure the freedom of safe travel within the EU.

Tags: Covid-19 pandemic, Croatia, EU, germany, Greece, Greece tourism, Italy, Spain, tourism guidelines, travel bubble, travel zone

Aegean and Air Nostrum Bid for Croatia Airlines Stake

2019-12-27 by Argophilia Travel News

Croatia Airlines

Aegean Airlines and Spain’s Air Nostrum have submitted non-binding bids for the acquisition of Croatia Airlines.

Tags: Aegean, Aegean Airlines, Air Nostrum, airlines, Balkans travel, Croatia, Croatia Airlines, Croatia tourism, Croatia travel, Europe airlines, Greek airlines

Croatia Welcomed a Record 18.5 Million Tourists in 2017

2018-01-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Croatia Creative Commons

In 2017 Croatia welcomed a total of 18.5 million tourists, the most ever in a single year in the nation’s history, with Germans topping the list.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia destinations, Croatia hotels, Croatia tourism, Croatia travel, dubrovnik, Gari Cappelli, Medulin, tourism minister, Umag, Zagreb

Tour Operators Anticipate “Sunshine Saturday 2018”

2018-01-10 by Argophilia Travel News

Beach

According to reports from Thomas Cook and TUI, International tour operators and travel agents are preparing for this year’s “Sunshine Saturday”, which is one of the busiest booking holidays. 

Tags: Croatia, Europe tours, Greece, Halkidiki, Montenegro, Sunshine Saturday, thomas cook, tour companies, tours, TUI, Turkey

Valamar Riviera to Open Two Luxury Resorts in Rabac

2017-02-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Valamar Riviera Croatia project

Rabac is the site of the largest tourism project in Croatia. Valamar Riviera builds here two luxury resorts: Family Life Bellevue and Valamar Girandella.

Tags: Croatia, Family Life Bellevue Resort, Rabac, Valamar Girandella, Valamar Riviera

Dalmatia May Get New Aerodrome

2017-01-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Vrgorac, Croatia in Dalmatia

Plans for a new international airport in Vrgorac in Dalmatian in Croatia are in wind according to news from Vrgorac. The new airport is reportedly in the early stages of investor planning for the area of Croatia in between Dubrovnik and Split, because of the suitability of the site.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia flights, Dalmatia, Dalmatia travel

Valamar Riviera Significantly Grows Revenue from Sales Q1

2016-04-29 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Courtesy Valamar Riviera d.d.

According to the published unaudited business results in the first quarter of 2016 Valamar Riviera d.d. reported consolidated revenues in the amount of HRK 86.5 million, which is an increase of 58.1 million HRK or 204% compared to the same period last year.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia hotels, Croatia resorts, Valamar Riviera

A Surpising 7 Eastern European Vacation Destinations

2016-04-26 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Klaipėda Port at dusk (cc 2.0)

If Paris has lost some of its shimmer for you, then how about giving one of the lesser known eastern European cities a whirl? Here’s a surprisingly entertaining and eventful seven you may not have thought of for your 2016 European getaway. Best of all, these unsung gems are some of the most cost effective city breaks you’ll find anywhere. Welcome to Eastern Europe.

Tags: Croatia, Estonia, Klaipeda, Kotor, Lithuania, Ljubljana, Loket, Montenegro, Osijek, Osijek Cathedral, poland, Tartu, Zamość

Croatia-Russia Tourism Team Formed

2016-03-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

MITT Moscow

In news from the Association of Croatian Travel Agencies (UHPA), a Croatian delegation, lead by the deputy tourism minister Robert Pauletić, has meet with key influential decision makers at the MITT fair in Moscow to discuss better cooperation in between the two countries. The Ministry of Tourism reported earlier this week on establishing a Croatian-Russian working team for tourism cooperation.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia tourism, MITT, MITT Moscow, Moscow travel, Robert Pauletić, UHPA

Croatia’s Pula Airport Sees Arrival Surge

2014-08-11 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Pula Ampitheater

In Croatia tourism news, Pula Airport arrivals last month showed a sharp increase, the highest in 18 years according to the media there.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia flights, Pula Ampitheater, Pula frights, Pula tourism, Pula travel

Valamar Hotels Croatia Cleans Up at World Travel Awards

2014-08-04 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Valamar Club Tamaris -Valamar Hotels & Resorts Facebook

Four of Valamar’s hotels in Croatia have won prestigous World Travel Awards. The gala ceremony held in Athens this past weekend revealed the best and the brightest in Europe tourism.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia hotels, Croatia resorts, World Travel Awards

Croatia Set to Welcome More Russian Tourists

2014-04-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Croatian Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin

Darko Lorencin, the Croatian Tourism Minister revealed this week Croatia is set to welcome more Russian tourists for 2014. Last year’s visa regime caused a drop in visitors from Russia of some 60%, a catastrophic drop for a country so dependent on tourism. This year Croatia intends to issue Russians visas for six months, the minister told RTL TV.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia tourism, Croatia travel, Croatia visits, Darko Lorencin, Russia tourists, tourism 2014, Ukraine

Croatia’s Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin Heads to China

2014-04-10 by Phil Butler

Darko Lorencin

Croatia’s Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin met with the Deputy Director of the China Tourism Association, Wu Wenxue, in Beijing yesterday to discuss expanding tourism relations between the two counties.

Tags: China tourists, Croatia, Croatia travel, Darko Lorencin, EU tourists

Fast Market Research Releases Croatia Travel to 2017

2014-03-08 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Dawn in Croatia - Courtesy snaps

With a focus on Croatian tourism in the now, Fast Market Research has released their latest detailed perspectus and comparative for industry insiders. Even despite the global economic crisis and prolonged eurozone debt, Croatia offers a unique opportunity for tourism and business.

According to the report preview, tourism represents a full 30.2% of Croatia’s employment cross section. This fact and limitation has

Tags: Croatia, Croatia business, Croatia travel, FAST, market research

Croatia to Have a Record Year in Tourism, Minister Says

2013-09-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Minister Darko Lorencin predicts that Croatia will have a record year in tourism. In a statement made recently, he mentioned that hotels had an occupation rate that reached even 97% in some cases and, based on these impressive booking rates, the minister predicts a successful 2013 in tourism for the country. The Minister also mentioned […]

Tags: Croatia, Croatia tourism, record year, tourism

Croatian Culture Week Visits Germany

2013-05-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The 'Wasserturm' (a former railway water tower), contains an art gallery and restaurant.

Croatian Culture Week opened up last Saturday, and is scheduled to run through this coming Sunday in Darmastadt, Germany. To mark the forthcoming entry by Croatia into the EU, the German city is previewing Croatia’s music and arts to the local German citizenry.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia EU, Culture Week, EU, EU Bids, germany

Croatia Airlines Strike: Day Two Cancellations

2013-05-15 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Despite assertions partner carriers would take up their slack in the even of a general strike, Croatia Airlines cancelled 22 flights on account of aircrew and pilots walking out. Today is the second day of a strike versus the airline over layoffs and pay cuts strikers say they cannot overcome.

Tags: airline strike, budget airlines, Croatia, Croatia Airlines, Croatia travel, EU airlines

Croatia’s Zoran Milanovic Pledges State-of-the-art Rails

2013-05-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic

News from Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic’s office last week is good news for fans of rail travel inside and outside Croatia. According to the official news the port of Rijeka will possess state-of-the-art facilities connecting the Croatian Adriatic with all of Central Europe.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia railways, Croatia tourism, Croatia travel

The Art of Robert Farber Photo Exhibit Hits Dubrovnik

2013-04-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Courtesy Robert Farber

For visitors to Dubrovnik, running from April 4th through May 30th, the Journey through moods exhibition will be at the Dubrovnik Art Gallery. Works by American photographer Robert Farber there reflect the artist’s work since the late 1960’s.

Tags: art, Croatia, Croatia events, dubrovnik, Dubrovnik events, photographs, photography

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