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The TNT travel magazine has described the Croatian coastal city of Pula as an ideal destination for travellers to enjoy sun over a weekend. In the article headlined "Weekender: Pula - the perfect way to spend a weekend in this jewel of the Adriatic," this London-headquartered magazine reports that "Pula, on Croatia's perfect Adriatic coast, is famous for its winemaking and incredible Roman ruins". It also reads that "Croatia is the sun-seekers’ paradise of eastern Europe, most famous for beaches, bars and bygone times. Serving up all this and more is Pula, a seaside city dotted with archaic quirks on the southern coast of the Istria peninsula." This weekly is distributed free of charge to residents of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and has 250,000 readers.

Croatian Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic on Sunday said that World Cup slaloms on Mount Sljeme were unforgettable sporting events both for spectators on the slope and for the TV audience. After today's sixth edition of the World Cup men's slalom on Sljeme overlooking the Croatian capital, Minister Ostojic, who attended the event, told reporters that this was an interesting event tourist-wise, and he highlighted the fact that the race was live broadcast in over a score of countries.

The next year will be challenging for the Croatian tourist trade because of a series of both favourable and unfavourable circumstances, Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic has said in an interview with Hina in which he also stated that he would be very pleased if 2013 was at the same level as 2012 regarding the results in the tourism sector and extremely glad if even better statistics were achieved. As for the favourable circumstances in 2013, the minister emphasises the beginning of the enforcement of a lower, 10-percent rate of the Value Added Tax on a majority of tourism services which he sees as a tailwind to the sector in the long run. The national tourist sector will also take advantages from Croatia's admission to the European Union, set for 1 July, and the EU membership will open many possibilities in the financing of and investments into the tourist trade, according to Ostojic. The adoption of a strategy for Croatian tourism through 2020, a document which is nearing completion, is expected in 2013.