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Croatian Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic on Tuesday held talks with a delegation led by French Ambassador Jerome Pasquier, the Tourism Ministry said in a statement. The talks focused on France's experience with a lower VAT rate in the tourism and hospitality industry, projects designed to advertise Croatia's culture on the French market, and investment possibilities in the Croatian tourism industry. A three-month project promoting Croatian culture in France will be held in France this autumn, Ostojic said, adding that Croatia would focus more on cultural tourism and cultural heritage in the coming years.

The Karlovac County Board of Tourism and County Prefect Ivan Vucic on Monday presented three projects, including one on cross-border cooperation in developing fishing tourism, worth EUR 425,000, and nominated for funds from the IPA pre-accession programme. The cross-borer cooperation project focuses on the development of fishing tourism in Una-Sana Canton in Bosnia and Croatia's Karlovac and Lika-Senj counties. The project will be implemented by the tourist offices in Karlovac, Gospic and Bihac.