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Tourist season off to a successful start

Croatian Times

More than 60,000 tourists have spent their Eastern holidays on the Adriatic coast, as many as during the best past Croatian tourism seasons.

It was also ten per cent more than expected, according to the daily Slobodna Dalmacija.

Istria welcomed 30,000, and Split-Dalmatian county 6,500, tourists. Two hundred hotels were open on the Adriatic coast.

Zadar had the best results over Easter since the War of Independence (1991-1995).
According to the Zadar tourist board, the Zadar area was visited by 5,000 to 6,000 tourists.

Zadar tourist board head Zvonko Supe said today (Tues): "This was the best Easter since the end of the war. It appears the season will be good despite many negative prognoses.  We are pleased that so many tourists from Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Spain and Hungary were here this year. Also, thanks to Ryanair, we have had 450 guests from Scandinavian during the last three days." Supe added that many Croats had also visited Zadar this year.

With 3,500 passengers thus far in April, Zadar airport has had double the number compared to the same month last year, according to the 057info.hr website.

Most passengers arrived on Ryanair from London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Stockholm and on Germanwings from Cologne and Stuttgart.

In the last three days, Split airport has seen the arrival and departure of 6,000 tourists, of whom 4,500 were foreigners.

Twenty per cent of the hotels on the coast have reported better results than last year.

According to the Dubrovnik tourist board, around 5,000 guests spent their Easter holidays in the Dubrovnik area, an increase of 30 per cent compared to last year. Most guests were from Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan, but there were also many Croats.

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