Press releases

According to the voters’ choice of the European Best Destinations web site, Zagreb was named the best destination for the Christmas holidays in Europe for the third year running.

The first edition of the Global Tourism Locations of the Future 2017/2018 report, has ranked Croatia the seventh country among destinations with the highest potential for tourism investment.

The promotional video of the Croatian National Tourist Board, “Croatia Full of Wellbeing”, was named the best national tourism film at the 20th International Tourism Film Festival - ITF’CRO, and received the “Baldo Čupić” award.

On its pages "Think with Google", Google published a detailed analysis of the Croatian national Tourist Board campaign “Croatia Feeds”, which they assessed as very successful, i.e. as an example of good practice in the creation and implementation of promotional campaigns.

During the second day of the World Travel Market (WTM), and within the Croatian stand, the Croatian National Tourist Board premiered its new promotional video.

Croatian tourism has reached this weekend its historic tourist results. The long awaited and announced record of 100 million overnight stays was registered for the first time in Croatian history in the eVisitor system which contains the tourist traffic realised in commercial and non-commercial facilities and nautical charter (eCrew system).

As part of the traditional tourism event, the Days of Croatian Tourism, the tourism awards for the best of the best in tourism were awarded tonight, in the following categories: Cultural tourist attraction of the year, Tourist event of the year, Innovation in tourism of the year, Marina of the year, Restaurant of the year, Campsite of the year, Tourist agency of the year, Hotel of the year, Tourist destination of the year, and the award "Anton Štifanić" – life achievement award and the person of the year award.

Almost 40 million people were reached and more than 50 thousand new fans gained on social media networks! Those are the fantastic results of the second part of the promotional campaign “Epic Week in Croatia”, launched by the Croatian National Tourist Board on social media networks.

Croatia is an increasingly sought-after vacation destination among the French, as evidenced by a 9.5% rise in arrivals and a 5% rise in nights this year and, based on the interest among business partners in France, further increases can be expected.

Croatia recorded 15 million tourist arrivals and 85 million bed-nights in the first eight months of 2017, increases of 14% and 13% respectively compared with the same period in 2016.