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Rovinj's holiday festival did well while the rest of Istria was dead. The coastal town saw a record tourist year capped by a packed seasonal event. Over the holiday period, the place logged tens of thousands of overnight stays, a slight increase from a prior stretch. Austrians and local...

Zagreb Airport just absolutely crushed records with insane passenger numbers. The hub handled over 4.7 million travelers throughout 2025, which marks a massive 9.4 percent jump. That equals roughly 405,000 extra humans crowding the terminals compared to the prior year. Flight operations also...

Croatia's squad picked their stateside home for the upcoming global tournament. The team selected Alexandria, Virginia, as their base camp, securing a specific hotel and the athletic grounds at a local high school for training. Officials cited the location's balance of quality facilities, travel...

Zagreb just locked in record tourist numbers thanks to its massive Christmas market. The city's Advent festival drove over three hundred thousand overnight stays, marking a notable bump in overall visits. Tourist Board Director Martina Bienenfeld credited targeted promotions and an award-winning...

Everyone apparently ditched work to crowd the Adriatic seaside throughout the summer. Eurostat data confirms the Croatian coast snagged second place for short-term rental demand across the entire European Union during the second quarter of 2025. Andalusia took the top spot while Ile de France...

Hajduk Split's membership surge is hitting a record pace just days into the new year. The club announced surpassing fifty thousand members in only twelve days, quoting excited fan reactions online. Nearly forty five thousand of those were renewing active members from the previous season. The...

Croatia's wealth gap just slapped the whole EU in the face with new data. Turns out Zagreb is basically a prosperity island while the eastern farmlands are getting demolished. Fresh 2024 numbers from the EU stats agency show the capital jumped into the top fifteen richest regions, but Pannonian...

Croatia's trying to flex hard this year with robotaxis and economic glow-ups. The government's 2026 checklist is kinda wild. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković is pushing for that OECD membership and talking up living standards. They are obsessed with keeping that A credit rating. For businesses...

A Croatian county is paying people to have babies. Officials in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia, are offering a one-thousand-euro cash gift for each child born starting on the first day of 2026. Prefect Blaž Pezo stated the policy aims to support young families and improve the area's declining...

Zagreb has experienced a massive surge in winter tourism recently, with local hotels reaching eighty percent capacity. During the initial weeks of the festivities, occupancy rates for accommodation in the capital even climbed above ninety percent. Officials expect the roughly one hundred forty...

The Bolt ride-hailing app in Croatia rolled out a weird new feature. They are charging users extra to request a taxi driver who speaks Croatian. People ordering a ride through the app can now select a Croatian speaker option, but it often costs more than a standard ride. This pricing has sparked...

Some entrepreneur named Antonija Eman just dropped a booking site called Destination Green Croatia that focuses on rental properties away from the beaches and tourist traps everyone usually hits. She handpicked houses across regions like Slavonia, Zagorje, and Međimurje after meeting every...

Croatia Airlines is gearing up to fly way more routes next year with almost 20,000 flights scheduled for the busy months between late March and late October. The carrier just added two fresh connections linking Stuttgart to Dubrovnik and Nantes to Split, and they are expecting to grow their...

Mate Rimac's company finally hit all the checkpoints to unlock 897 million euros from the EU after showing off 60 prototype robotaxis that passed verification tests. The Croatian Vehicle Centre confirmed the prototypes exist and went through some testing at a temporary factory near Zagreb, but...

Croatian tourism giant Valamar is dropping 245 million euros on upgrades, with most of the cash going toward finishing the Pical resort in Poreč. The five-star property is supposed to open next spring, and the company is calling it the biggest tourism project Croatia has ever seen. The Pical...

Croatia's economy hit the brakes during the summer months after stats showed growth dropping to around 2.3 percent compared to last year's third quarter. The slowdown came after spring numbers looked stronger at 3.6 percent, and economists weren't exactly shocked since monthly data already...

Brits and Germans keep spamming Skyscanner with Croatia searches, hitting 13.4 million and 12.4 million queries respectively over the past year. Poland, Finland, Belgium, Greece, and the Czech Republic showed the biggest jumps in interest, while Split, Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Zadar, and Pula...

Croatia has dropped five positions to 45th place in the Climate Change Performance Index assessment, measuring 63 nations' effectiveness in combating environmental degradation. The Balkan state earned poor marks for greenhouse gas output, energy usage, and policy implementation despite moderate...

Croatian airports reported increased passenger traffic for September 2025, signaling a continued extension of the tourist season. The country's airports served a total of 1.8 million passengers, a 6.1 percent rise compared to the previous year. Split Airport led with 533,000 passengers, followed...

Croatia will eliminate its pension tax next year after the Croatian Pensioners' Party reached an agreement with government leaders. The decision affects more than 474,000 pensioners who paid the tax in September, representing over 40 percent of all pension recipients in the country. The average...