The workshop attracted about 60 French agencies specialising in business travel, including EGG, Eventeam, Overcome, Phenomene, Xplore and The Blue Yellow, and the maximum number of Croatian tourism operators, including destination management agencies and hotel chains.
"We are glad to see the great interest of the French market in business tourism in Croatia. This form of workshops that bring together representatives of the Croatian and French tourism industries is a good way to present what Croatia has to offer in the business tourism segment," the director of the HTZ Paris Office, Danijela Mihalić Đurica, said.
She said that one of the advantages of business tourism is that business travels take place all year round and these visitors spend at least twice as much as ordinary visitors.
The HTZ said that French tourists generated 40 per cent more arrivals and bed nights in Croatia in 2022 than in 2021. "If there are no significant disruptions, next year is expected to reach pre-pandemic figures from the French market," it said.