Hvar to celebrate 150 years of tourism, like nothing seen before

The city of Hvar will dedicate all of 2018 to celebrating 150 years of organised tourism in that city on this southern Adriatic island with the expectation that that will contribute to the continuation of investment and tourism trends recorded this year when 197,000 tourists were recorded to have visited the city by  the end of October, which is 15% more on the year.

"We hope and are doing a lot so that the positive tourism trends continue and believe that the 150th anniversary of tourism in Hvar will be an additional or new driver for people to visit our city and our island," Hvar Mayor Rikardo Novak said.

We will do additional infrastructure and landscaping works in the city next year and promote it as a desirable place to live. We will strengthen emphasis on culture and continue to promote our culinary offer, active holidaying, congress destination, health tourism and so on as well as quality accommodation with the addition of the first five-star hotel in Hvar.

The focal celebrations will be from 10 to 15 May because it is on that date in 1858 that the first tourist community was established. There will be numerous exhibitions, concerts and other programmes and all with an international character. We will combine that with the occasion of the 160th anniversary (2018) of the meteorological station on Hvar, one of the oldest in Europe and the 160th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of dactyloscopy, Ivan Vucetic of Hvar, which is also the year that we intend to open the renovated historical Arsenal building with the oldest public theatres in Europe, an opportunity to present Hvar in its true light. (Hina/FaH)

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