In the first ten months of the year overnight stays were up by 2.0% to 56.252 million, the office said.
Details follow:
Jan-Oct'08 | Jan-Oct'07 | |
Total arrivals | 10,892,765 | 10,782,585 |
-Croatian tourists | 1,657,522 | 1,664,151 |
-Foreign tourists | 9,235,243 | 9,118,434 |
Total overnights | 56,252,016 | 55,108,961 |
-Croatian tourists | 6,080,057 | 5,009,211 |
-Foreign tourists | 50,171,959 | 49,099,750 |
Tourism is a key industry for Croatia. Last year the Adriatic country reported 11.2 million tourists, a rise of 7.0% on the year, and 56 million overnights, up by 6.0%.
Croatia's Tourism Ministry expects 3.0% to 5.0% growth of tourism revenue and up to three percent rise in the number of tourists in 2008. Last year the country's tourism revenue rose by 7.1% to 6.7 billion euro ($8.6 billion).
Tourism generated 18% of Croatia's gross domestic product in 2007.
($=0.775 euro)