Croatia predicts increased tourist spend
Croatia could make around €12 billion from tourism in 2018 – a total of around €1 billion more than the previous year.
This prediction comes from Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli, who was speaking to the Croatian press after a meeting of the Tourism Council of the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ). According to reports, he also added that Croatia was looking to create quality tourism.
Croatia lowered prices in the country this summer for tourists, but Cappelli did not believe that it would affect the overall total due to the total revenues for the first half of 2018 being already higher than at the same time the previous year.
Cappelli also looked towards the future: “Intensive preparations for 2019 have already begun, focussing on synergy between the public and private sectors, quality, price and promotion, which must be twice as good as last year, given trends and the situation in competitor countries.”
He added that there would be investment in the country’s tourism sector, with the HTZ looking to address the labour shortage and cut taxes on the sector in the future.