CAVTAT, Oct 25 (Hina) - German travel agencies this year recorded a ten-percent drop in sales of tourist arrangements for foreign destinations, it was said on Friday at the 52nd congress of an association of German travel agencies,
which is taking place in Croatia's Cavtat and Dubrovnik.
CAVTAT, Oct 25 (Hina) - German travel agencies this year recorded a
ten-percent drop in sales of tourist arrangements for foreign
destinations, it was said on Friday at the 52nd congress of an
association of German travel agencies, which is taking place in
Croatia's Cavtat and Dubrovnik. #L#
The sales drop was due to recession in national economy and the
aftermath of last year's terrorist attacks on the US, it was said at
the event which has pooled some 750 tourism experts from Germany,
Croatia, and elsewhere.
A representative for the German Economy and Labour Ministry, Helmut
Krueger, expressed satisfaction with a 13-percent increase in the
number of German tourists vacationing in Croatia, which he said was
the result of the safety and peace found in Croatia.
He wished the Croatian Tourism Ministry and government luck in
their bids to make tourism one of the chief strategic branches of
national economy, saying that natural, transport and economic
resources were ideal.
Croatian Tourism Minister Pave Zupan-Ruskovic read a welcome
letter from President Stjepan Mesic, who was unable to reach Cavtat
due to adverse weather.
In the letter, Mesic recalled the traditionally important role of
the German market, which accounts for one quarter of all foreign
overnights annually. The President also pointed to the need of
engaging eminent foreign tourist companies in the privatisation of
Croatian ones, and called on Germans to invest.
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