Croatian islands record excellent results of the tourist season
The tourist season of 2021 exceeded everyone’s expectations. Islands all over the Croatian coast record excellent results that remind of 2019. This is an incredible achievement if we consider that the situation with the pandemic is still ongoing.
Rab island more than satisfied with the results
On the island of Rab, 94% of traffic was generated compared to the same month of the tourist record 2019.
The biggest number of guests are from Germany, followed by domestic guests and those from Austria and Slovenia.
As the director of the Tourist Board of the City of Rab Ivana Matušan says, visitors mostly opt for accommodation in a family household (64%), then campsites (11%) and hotels (10%).
Excellent tourist results in the city of Rab have been achieved if looking at the whole year so far, i.e. the first eight months.
As Matušan adds, from January to August, we can be extremely satisfied. The result is 27% better than last year for the same period, and if we look at 2019 the realization is as much as 82%.
Currently, about 10 thousand tourists stay in the area of the City of Rab. Reservation announcements for September are excellent, both in family accommodation and in hotels.
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays exceeded the 2019 results on Ugljan island
For the nineteenth year in a row, the Tourist Board of Ugljan has said goodbye to the event “Ugljan in Flowers” since the summer.
According to the director of the Tourist Board of Ugljan Marina Belić Telac, it is the icing on the cake of all summer events in which the most beautiful gardens and backyards of Ugljan are awarded.
When speaking about this year’s main tourist season, she points out that it was more than successful.
Namely, in the first eight months of this year, Ugljan recorded 14,892 arrivals and 156,778 overnight stays. This is an increase of 21.47% in arrivals compared to the same period in 2020, while in overnight stays there is an increase of 17.97%. Compared to 2019, there is an increase of 19.63% in arrivals and 15.24% in overnight stays.
Almost 50% more arrivals on Krk island than in 2020
In August 2021, there were 228,090 arrivals in the area of the island of Krk (43.89% more than last year) and 1,518,740 overnight stays (45.14% more than last year).
The share of domestic guests in arrivals is 6.84%, and in overnight stays is 6.01%, and the share in foreign guests in arrivals is 93.16% and in overnight stays 93.99%.
Following the markets, we can conclude with satisfaction that the island of Krk is still dominated by Germans, who are represented with 42.72% of total overnight stays. Following previous periods, especially 2019, we see that they exceeded the number of arrivals and overnight stays in 2019 for 24,000 arrivals and 171,000 overnight stays.
Domestic guests have a share of 6.84% and realized a total of 15,596 arrivals (-22%) and 91,216 overnight stays (-8 %%), and compared to 2019, they achieved an increase in overnight stays by 26%.
In the period January – August 2021, according to E-Visitor data, a total of 574,962 arrivals were realized on the island of Krk (an increase of 45.99% compared to the previous year 2021) and 3,397,306 overnight stays (42.43 more than last year).
Great tourist results are also coming from Bol
In August, there were 26,447 arrivals and 158,432 overnight stays in Bol. Arrivals, according to the Tourist Board of the Municipality of Bol, are at the level of 85% of the realized tourist traffic from the 2019 season, while overnight stays are also at the same level from the pre-pandemic year.
Data on tourist traffic in August this year indicate that the number of arrivals was 50% higher than in 2020, and overnight stays by 43%.
According to the Tourist Board of Bol, domestic guests are leading in Croatia with 15.13%, followed by guests from Germany with 14.14%, while Slovenians are in third place with 9.33%. They are followed by guests from Austria and the Czech Republic.
According to the type of accommodation capacity, most overnight stays were realized in private accommodation, 50%, then 42% in hotels, and 4% in camps and non-commercial accommodation.
Source: Morski.hr, Nasiskolji.hr, Otok-Krk.org, Bracdanas.com
