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Croatia's hotel and restaurant industry and travel agencies earned a total of 6.1 billion kuna in revenues in the first five months of 2012, an increase of 4.2 per cent in comparison with the corresponding period of 2011, the Ministry of Tourism said on Monday.

Hotels and other accommodation providers generated a total revenue of 2.3 billion kuna, or 10 per cent more than last year. Campsite operators earned 54 million kuna, or 14 per cent more, and travel agencies 122.7 million kuna, or 24 per cent more than in the first five months of 2011.

The Ministry of Tourism and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service are appealing to all the tourists, who will actively and adventurously spend their Croatian holidays, to carefully plan their activities and take care of their own safety. Croatia is a country with a variety of natural resources, mountains, national parks and nature parks which, understandably, attract many domestic and foreign tourists and nature lovers with their beauty and diversity, to visit them. However, before venturing into nature and the mountains one should remember several important facts, so below we offer you a few tips. However, before visiting various speleological features and indulging in the adventure of discovering underground labyrinths, one should bear in mind some facts. Therefore, below, we offer a few tips.

Dear tourism workers and all tourism friends, dear guests, The high season period has started. According to the first indicators of tourism result for the past six months the tourist season has met all our expectations. Therefore, we are very optimistic in regard to the following weeks as well as to the final results of the entire season. However, until then, until the last day of this year, it is our mission to pursue our operational tasks maximally focused and in the high-quality manner. I would like to extend my greetings once again to all the tourism workers, hotel managers, waiters, chefs, chambermaids, entertainment organisers, private lessors and everybody else who is directly engaged and has contacts with tourists on a daily bases through their businesses, thus representing our country and forming impressions that shall encourage our guests to visit us again and communicate their content with holidays spent in Croatia. Your hard work, professionalism, courtesy and smiling face are the reflection of Croatia as a tourist destination. Consequently, I encourage you to persist even in situations requiring overtime arrangements and urgent and busy tasks’ finalisation and to stay true to the motto postulating that a guest always comes first and that a guest is always right.

Croatia's tourist sector in the first six months recorded 5.2 percent more tourist arrivals and 5 percent more overnights along the Adriatic coast and in Zagreb in comparison with the corresponding period the year before, however this is only an introduction to what is expected of the tourist sector and efforts must be made so that the number of arrivals and overnights be at least the same as last year and total revenues in tourist sector up by three to five percent, Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic said on Monday.

Croatian Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic on Tuesday visited the Zagreb Golf & Country Club's golf courses ahead of the European senior golf championship to take place in Croatia, saying Croatia needed golf courses for its tourism but that they must not be a cover for excessive construction. The European championship will take place in Zagreb and Mokrice on July 8-12 and draw about 300 players from 22 countries, reporters were told today. Ostojic said Croatia's tourism urgently needed about 20 golf courses, which required legislative amendments, notably to the construction law so as to give golf courses the status of green areas and not construction land.
 

 With regard to announcements of extreme heat conditions during summer months,  the Ministry of Health issued a warning/prevention guide/the following tips for citizens, especially for the elderly and the people with chronic diseases, on how to behave during periods of extremely high temperatures

Croatia-Israel tourist cooperation and cooperation in investments were some of the topics of talks Croatian Tourism Minister Veljko Ostojic held with his Israeli counterpart Stas Misezhnikov in Zagreb on Tuesday.

Ostojic and Misezhnikov told a news conference that potentials were great for developing cooperation, adding that Israeli tourists were increasingly interested in Croatia as a vacation destination.

The two minister also talked about possibilities of investing in Croatia's tourism.