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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?

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?

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?