Less Tourists Visit Croatia Last Year Than In 2007

According to figures, 1,88 million foreign tourists visited Croatia in 2008, which is a 2.8 percent drop compared to 2007.

With mediation of 830 travel agents, which is how many were active in the first nine months of last year, 1.88 million foreign tourists visited Croatia last year, realising 13.3 million overnight stays, which is 2.6 percent less in arrivals and 2.9 percent less in over-night stays than in 2007 – Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics informs.

Among the total of 1.88 million foreign tourists in the first nine months, most came from Germany: 442,600, realising 3.67 million over-night stays.

Traditionally, Italians finished second, whose travel agents brought 188,00 tourists, who realised 1.3 million over-night stays, while Czech Tourists were third on the list with 113,600 tourists and 798,700 over-night stays.

Home tourists

The number of home tourists who went on several-day trips within Croatia, organised by travel agents, was 3.4 percent larger and the number of over-night stays dropped 1 percent in relation to the same period in 2007, with an average of 4.9 percent.

There were 7.6 percent more Croatian tourists who went abroad, realising 6.3 percent more over-night stays than in the same period last year.

Out of 217,671 home tourists who travelled abroad with a travel agent, most went to Italy (19 percent), Austria (14 percent), Spain (9 percent), the Czech Republic and France (8 percent each) and Slovenia (6 percent).