{"id":164195,"date":"2025-06-06T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164195\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:35:09","slug":"crisis-in-croatia-as-italian-and-german-tourists-abandon-country-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164195\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Croatia as Italian and German tourists abandon country | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of tourists visiting Croatia<\/a> has plummeted in a major blow for the industry. The Balkan country has been a haven for visitors from Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and Italy – many attracted by the cheaper prices to be found there.<\/p>\n

However, in the last three years tourism prices in Croatia<\/a> have surged by a whopping 50%. The spike in prices is making Croatia<\/a> more expensive than two of its biggest rivals – Spain and Greece. Costs in the two Mediterranean countries have risen by only 15-20% over the same period.<\/p>\n

The steep rise is now putting Croatia’s<\/a> reputation as an affordable travel destination at great risk.<\/p>\n

The ballooning costs are not the result of external factors – such as energy costs or value-added tax (VAT) rates.<\/p>\n

Croatia<\/a> boasts some of the lowest energy prices within the EU and reduced tourism VAT rate of 13%.<\/p>\n

The main cause for the price spike lies in the rising operational costs within the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n

Higher prices have seen a stagnation in overnight stays and worryingly a decline in tourist spending.<\/p>\n

During the peak summer season last year, foreign tourism revenue in Croatia fell by 0.7% compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n

Tourists have vented their anger at the steep rise in prices on travel review platforms, like Tripadvisor.<\/p>\n

One Norwegian was left deeply disillusioned after holidaying in Croatia last year.<\/p>\n

“Everything is much more expensive than before,” they wrote. “Prices are abnormally high and have probably increased two to three times in two years.<\/p>\n

“The price of a sunbed is 25 to 30 euros! Croatia was our first choice for a summer vacation, but now everything has unfortunately become too expensive.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if we will return. I’m sorry that Croatia is developing in this direction.”<\/p>\n

However, a UK tourist didn’t see any evidence of a steep rise year-on-year.<\/p>\n

They wrote: “Comparing what we spent in Rovinj on food and drink in 2023 and what we spent in Hvar this year was very close interestingly.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t a great variation of prices. The only difference was that Rovinj was a bit better value wine wise with more in the way of carafes on offer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of tourists visiting Croatia has plummeted in a major blow for the industry. The Balkan country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[6560,51,13490,1700,299,1450,2406,104,5006,183,19760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-balkans","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-croatia","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-greece","14":"tag-holidays","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-tourism","17":"tag-travel","18":"tag-tripadvisor","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114639046501960386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}