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Croatia has a long tradition of the naturist movement and an excellent camping offering intended for its naturist visitors. This is the reason why a new web portal was launched recently, "Naturism on the Adriatic", sponsored by the Valamar tourist group and the camping web portal "Camping on the Adriatic". On the portal, information about the naturism offering is published in Croatian, English, Italian, German and Slovenian. It provides information about the naturist capacities, the culture of the body and cultural and entertainment events on the Adriatic, also featuring a blog for the exchange of naturist experiences in Croatia. Altogether, there are around 30 naturist facilities and beaches in Croatia. However, there are also numerous hidden spots for swimming naked. The tradition of naturism is long, and its beginning is considered to be 1936, when the English King Edward VIII and Lady Wallis Simpson came to the island of Rab and swam naked there.
Source: Croatia.hr

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Apart from its basic activity, the production of salt, the salt pans in Nin, near Zadar, are also devising tourism programs. A couple of years ago, the Nin salt pans became a sort of natural park with organized guided tours for visitors.The Nin salt pans, along with the ones in Ston, are the only ones of their kind on the Adriatic, where salt is manufactured in a traditional way, as was done thousands of years ago, with sea water perspiring from shallow pools. This is why a procedure has been launched to protect the entire area as a natural good, a protected landscape of flora and fauna, with the end goal being protecting the entire laguna area, partly through the UN project Natura 2000. The Nin salt pans are spread over 55 ha of the Nin Laguna, right next to the ancient Croatian city of Nin, in the Zadar County. The salt pans date back to the Roman era. Venice purchased the pans and closed it down in 1550 to maintain its monopoly in salt production and trade on the Adriatic. It was re-established four centuries later, in 1955.Numerous tourists visit the salt pans during the summer and buy interesting souvenirs made from salt. The salt is produced in an entirely natural way, with the sea water perspiring from the pools because of the sun and wind, and natural sea salt crystallising. Nin salt has a high concentration of Iodine because of the algae in the sea water, which gives it a special place on the market. It is also sold as scented bath salt, enriched with natural oils (lavender, rosemary, rose, lemon, sage), thus combining several characteristics of the Mediterranean.
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It is a well-known fact that Croatia is a country of top-quality athletes, documented by the many medals they have won around the world, thus becoming a role-model for many children. Thanks to the initiative of the Valamar tourist group, the manager of facilities in Porec, Pula, on the Island of Krk, in Rabac and Dubrovnik, their idols are now a bit closer to them. In July and August, famous athletes such as Franjo Arapovi, Slavko Goluza, Domagoj Duvnjak, Vlado Sola, Sanja Jovanovi and Petra and Dario Kliba will show the little ones the secrets of basketball, handball, swimming and sailing. The program includes everyday training, lunch and dinner with the athletes, and a photograph taken with them. Also the children will be able to enjoy a rich animation program. This is also an opportunity for the parents to spend their vacation according to their wishes. The training will be held until the end of August. Swimmer Sanja Jovanovi will be holding swimming lessons from August 10th to August 17th in the Valamar Club Dubrovnik, and Petra and Dario Kilba will be holding sailing lessons in the Valamar Club Tamaris from August 23rd to August 30th. The program is intended for children form the ages of seven to 15, and is open for both visitors and locals.
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A rich conference autumn expects the Istrian tourist destination Rovinj. The town will host the weekend media Festival from September 18th to September 20th, only a few days after it celebrates its Town Day on the occasion of the holiday of the town's patron saint St Eufemija. The regional media festival is organized in Rovinj for the second time, gathering the most important media and communications infrastructure experts in the region. The event will be host to some of the most renowned world and regional experts in the field of communications. A couple of days later, from September 22nd to September 26th, Rovinj will host the Licensing Factory New Europe, a fair of the industry focusing on the use of characters from books, paintings, comics, animated and feature films for products such as schoolbags, T-shirts, mugs, ice-cream and others. This conference held in Rovinj is among many similar ones held in the USA, Great Britain, the UAE, Japan and Germany. Dance enthusiasts will be most pleased to hear that Rovinj will host the Argentinean Tango Festival from October 8th to October 11th, a three-day workshop for courses in tango on all levels.
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The high-circulation British daily «Mirror» has put Croatia, Egypt, Turkey and Hungary among the coolest destinations for British tourist in 2009. According to the information about affordable holiday spots for this year provided by the British journalists, tourists will get the best value for money in these destinations. Due to the financial crisis that has weakened the national currency, a pound is no longer enough for a caffee latte in Paris or French fries in Spanish Benidorm.

This is why Mirror recommended its readers to visit destinations outside the European Union and presented Croatia as the first destination among its four favorites. In a very detailed presentation of the tourist offer, from Opatija in the north to the southernmost part of the coast, Slavonia and the interior, British Mirror says that the prices in Croatian hotels, restaurants and spas and ship cruise prices are 20 percent lower compared to other European countries. The presentation also underscores that Croatia offers something for everybody, so its recommends British citizens to visit Dubrovnik where they can enjoy themselves in one of the numerous restaurants arranged across the stone street of the old town, especially in the evening. Mirror informs the British readers that a romantic 5-star hotel will open in June on the island of Kor?ula, not far from Dubrovnik, within the Leši?-Dimitri Palace. The palace was built in the 18th century and offers six suites inspired by the silk roads traveled by the great Croatian explorer Marco Polo, while the old historical town of Lovran next to Opatija is recommended as one of the most attractive health resorts. In addition to numerous sandy beaches, crystal clear sea and a number of good hotels ideal for families with children, Croatia is equally interesting to young tourist and nature enthusiasts who can enjoy bird watching in Kopa?ki rit, photo-safaris on Velebit, wine tasting in Slavonia, rafting and many other activities… They also say Croatia is accessible via low-cost airlines such as Thomson Airways, EasyJet, Ryanair and Jet2.com.

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By the end of the year four new low cost air carriers will open flights to Pula Airport. These are the German companies Germanwings and TUIfly, the Hungarian air carrier Wizzair and the Danish Sterling. Direct connections to Pula are currently maintained by three low cost air carriers that operate during the peak tourist season – the Irish company Ryanair which links Pula to London and Dublin, Norwegian Air Shuttle and the Scottish Fly Globespan. These three companies will run their last flights to Pula in this season at the end of October.

The airport – at which tourists whose destinations are located across all of Istra – is only a few kilometres from the town of Pula, into whose historical edifices and cultural monuments three thousand years of history have been built.

With its recognisable antiquity period amphitheatre, the sixth largest in the world, which plays host to numerous cultural events and performances by artists from around the world, Pula has found its place among interesting cultural destinations. In the direct vicinity of the town are the Brijuni islands with their national park, only three kilometres from the mainland coast. Distinct by its specific types of flora and fauna, and archaeological excavations that bear witness to the settlement of ancient civilisations, Brijuni National Park is also the site of top class cultural and sports events, congresses and meetings. Near Pula, that has fast road connections to all the towns of the Istrian peninsula, there are also other attractive tourist destinations interesting at any time of the year.

Source: ?Croatia Tourist Board?

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Croatia Airlines, the national air carrier, has declared the quality of traffic effectiveness this August the best in its 16-year history.

In August, namely, the company‘s airplanes carried over 270 thousand passengers, which is a record number of passengers for one month since the launch of commercial flight services in 1991 and up 8 percent from August of last year. This is not the end of the spate of records though – August also saw a record filling of the passenger cabin, which amounted to 75.9 percent and record filling of the passenger cabin in regular international traffic that amounted to 77.8 percent.

From the beginning of the year to the end of August the Croatia Airlines fleet – which includes eleven airplanes (four Airbus A319‘s, four Airbus A320‘s and three ATR 42‘s) transported a total of 1.138 million passengers, up 8 percent from the same period last year.

Source: ?Croatia Tourist Board?

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A total of 1,400 Japanese tourists arrived in Croatia in August and September on direct charter flights from Tokyo. Of that number a total of 1,050 Japanese tourists landed in the capital city of Zagreb, while one group of 350 Japanese landed in Dubrovnik.

These are, namely, the first direct charter flights from Tokyo‘s Narita airport, organized by JTB, the leading Japanese tourist agency, in collaboration with Japanese Airlines. For its regional partner JTB chose the Dubrovnik-based Atlas Travel Agency, a member of the Adriatica.net Group.

The Japanese tourists were in Croatia on eight-day stints, and besides Zagreb they visited the Plitvice Lakes, Split and Dubrovnik and neighbouring countries – Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro.

According to statistical data, Croatia is every year visited by a growing number of Japanese tourists, so that these direct flights linking Tokyo and Zagreb or Dubrovnik, were received with mutual satisfaction. It is, namely, known that Japanese tourists are great fans of the beauties of culture, history and nature on which account Croatia has become for them, after the large scale promotional activities organised in that country, an increasingly attractive tourism destinations.

Source: ?Croatia Tourist Board?

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