Tourist in 2016. It started with a porastima transport, booking and good market announcements, so it is expected that could surpass the excellent tourist results from 2015. In such evaluations and expectations of the representatives agree a series of segments of the tourist sector, pointing out that the start of the new year has brought good results, traffic in almost all destinations on the Adriatic coast and in the Interior of the country.
Open hotels and other facilities were well pupunjeni for the celebration, and the first incomplete information of tourist communities are saying is that in the last two or three weeks in Croatia there were more tourists and overnight stays than at the same time a year ago, which will only further strengthen the ‘ ‘ physical indicators for all in 2015.
“New year in front of tourism puts new challenges, for which, I believe, the tourism sector is ready and I expect to continue with the trend of growth,” said the Director of the main Office of the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) G A, adding that in the new year came in and with the new promotion campaigns of Croatian tourism, which is initiated by the CROATIAN TOURIST BOARD on the markets at the end of December 2015.
The impacts of the economy, the (in) security and terrorism
For everything that is happening in the world and Europe, including terrorist threats and turmoil around the (in) security of the travel and the refugee crisis, as well as due to the still unfavourable business environment in the country, for tourism is 2016. very challenging and somewhat uncertain age, in which he will once again come to the fore in the already proven skills and knowledge tourism workers, assess the head of the sector for tourism Croatian Chamber of economy (CCE) Leila K-J and the President of the Community of family accommodation at the CROATIAN CHAMBER of ECONOMY Nedo residing here. Expect and to better edit still nekonkurentni legislative and tax framework for tourism and further encourages the integration of domestic products in tourism, opening the objects outside of the main season, promotion of youth employment, the introduction for long-term air lines as well as the introduction of ‘ green ‘,
innovative and digital trends in the tourist business.
Senior partner consulting firm Horwath HTL Croatia Sanja Shoemaker indicates a positive State and prospects of the economic situation in Europe, which is good for the growth of tourist demand and for the Croatian, but believes that it will on that demand in the whole Mediterranean and Europe enough to influence the security situation linked to the unpredictability of terrorism. “The security situation in the area of tourism Mediterranean destinations such as Turkey and Egypt, and Greece, could this year affect the specific ‘ spillover ‘ traffic, as well as in Croatia, which is known as a safe destination,” says Shoemaker.
Possible lack of capacity available in the summer
The President of the Professional Association of travel agencies at the Zagreb Chamber John Pukšar believes the 2016. be challenging and demanding because of all of the trends, but also the holiday season that’s a worse fall than last year (with the Uskrsom at the end of March) and warns that already at the beginning of the summer could face a shortage of available capacity. “On the foreign markets very well stand for this year, and already now it is the art of getting free beds in Dubrovnik and split in June and September for groups and circular tours, which are to announce you and what you should take into account,” says Pukšar.
The hope is that it will be for the Agency as soon as possible to improve tax policy which, according to them, ‘ destroy ‘ with the highest rate of VAT for Agency services in the world by 25 percent, as well as that there will be an escalation of terrorism because it is an attack in Paris almost ‘ broken ‘ agencies, given that a large number of passengers he destroyed the will to travel to European capitals.
The importance of continuing investment in what are leading hoteliers
They all agree that they are for a successful, diverse and high-quality tourism products and the results of the important investments that will this year, according to a survey of the Ministry of tourism, to rise by about 40 percent compared to 2015, to more than 670 million euros. More than half of the it spend will be the private sector, from
classes at most hotel companies like of Istraturist, Maistra’s, Valamar Riviera, Liburnia Riviera hotels and others all of which more or less expect the continuation of positive trends.
Maistra’s Chairman of the Board, Tomislav Popovic announces that “they expect a successful 2016. in which it will invest around 430 million in the development of the buildings, which will open up space for further extension of the season, an increase in the average price and the change of the structure of the reviews at the destination “.
(Tatiana Miščančuk, Hina/Box)