​Luxury tourist resort T-Nest expected to open in autumn

An innovative environmentally-friendly tourist resort called T-Nest (Tesla's Nest), which is being built near Lovinac in the Lika region, is expected to be opened this autumn, it was announced earlier this week. The resort will boast 72 luxury accommodation units, including 42 canvas and 30 wooden villas situated by the side of a lake, in the wood or in treetops. They all will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology. The complex will also include a wellness centre, restaurants offering international and local cuisines, electric cars and bicycles, hiking and trim trails.

Entrepreneur Goran Strok has invested over EUR 15 million in this project, and a portion of the funding has been provided via the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The building site was visited by Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli, who said that this investment in continental tourism would create new jobs and benefit local farmers. He emphasised the good geographic position of the resort, being located near the sea, national parks and the airports in Zadar, Split and Zagreb.

Cappelli said that private and public investments in the tourist industry this year were estimated at EUR 1.05 billion, adding that most of them were aimed at upgrading accommodation establishments to the four or five star category.

Noting that the resort's motto was "the loudest sound here is silence", Strok said that the T-Nest project had attracted interest wherever it had been presented in the world, notably in Japan and South Korea. He commended the local government and the Tourism Ministry for their support.

Lovinac is located about 80 kilometres inland from the central Adriatic city of Zadar and about 230 kilometres south of Zagreb. (Hina)

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