Tourism in Croatia Strongly Approaching 2019 Levels, Data Shows

According to a press release issued by the Croatian office for statistics, 833,000 tourists and 2.5 million nights spent in accommodation facilities were recorded this month, up by 613,000 tourists and 1.9 million tourists nights compared to April 2021, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.

Furthermore, the domestic tourism during the fourth month of the year peaked at 191,000 arrivals who spent 428,000 nights – 57.3 per cent more tourists arrivals and 57.2 per cent more tourists’ nights spent than in the previous year.

As per foreign tourists, there were a total of 642,000 arrivals and 2.1 million nights spent, up by 555 per cent or 544,000 more tourists and 1.7 million more nights spent.

The data also reveals that tourist nights were mostly spent at hotels and other similar accommodation facilities as 51 per cent of the visitors did, while holiday and other short-stay accommodation made up for 30.7 per cent of the total. The remaining 18.3 per cent was spent on camping sites and grounds, as well as other facilities.

Germany was the main source of tourism, reaching a total of 442,000 nights spent – representing 21.1 per cent of the total. Slovenian tourists follow on the list with 394,000 nights (18.8 per cent), making up for 39.9 per cent of the total nights spent by foreign tourists, along with Germans.

These were followed by the nights realised by tourists from Austria (12.6 per cent), the United Kingdom (6.7 per cent), Italy (4.4 per cent), France (3.9 per cent), and the USA (2.8 per cent). All these countries realised a surge in tourist arrivals and tourist nights in April 2022 compared to April 2021.

The most visited spot was the County of Istria, which realised the most tourist nights – 904,000 of those, which was 35.8% of the total number of tourist nights. The second most visited county was Primorje-Gorski Kotar, with 410,000 tourist nights – 16.2 per cent of the total nights spent in Croatia.

Dubrovnik remains a top destination spot, as it was the city with the most tourist nights spent in April of 2022. More specifically, 204,000 nights were spent in the city – 89.9 per cent of which were from international tourists and 10.2 per cent from the domestic market. Compared to April 2021, there was a large increase in tourist arrivals and nights – 62,000 in arrivals and 182,000 in nights.

In the first four months of 2022, 1.5 million tourists arrivals and 4.4 million nights spent were recorded in Croatia, which was one million more tourist arrivals and 2.9 million more tourist nights, as compared to the same period of 2021 – being almost three times more tourist arrivals and nights than in April 2021.