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BRELA, Aug 17 (Hina) - Tourism Minister Sergej Morsan says the
summer of 1998 will be a relatively good season for Croatia with an
expected increase in tourist traffic.
Following the adding up of this year's financial performances,
there will be a higher quality concept of the total Croatian tourism
product for next year and a thorough confirmation of pricing
policy.
With support from the entire state policy directed towards tourism,
better financial results can be expected for the next season,
Morsan said after a working meeting on Monday at the Soline hotel in
Brela with hoteliers and tourism workers from the Makarska riviera
and other parts of the Split-Dalmatia County.
The Croatian Tourism Minister also announced that hoteliers "with
certainty can count" on specific funds which will be granted to them
from the state budget as an impetus in preparing for the next
tourism season.
These grants to hotels would be awarded ahead of next summer and be
based on the number of foreign tourists accommodated in them.
Dinko Franchini and Mile Razovic from the Split-Dalmatia County
Tourism Board informed Morsan on the results of the season so far.
Currently about 56,000 guests are accommodated in the county, while
just in the first seven months of this year there were 1,928,000
overnight stays, which was 15 per cent more than last year.
Of this total more than one and a half million overnight stays were
made by foreigners.
Speaking about prices, Morsan said that the value added tax and
excise duties should not have had an influence on the "often
baseless increases in prices of hotel and catering-tourist
services".
The problem of displaced people being accommodated in hotels was
also mentioned at the meeting.
For example, the 600-bed Neptun hotel in Tucepi was not open to
guests this season because 40 or so refugees were still living
there.
Morsan said that the large part of displaced people would soon be
relocated from hotels.
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