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Article: CROATIA: CHALLENGES FOR CROATIAN TOURISM.(forecast of future of Croatian travel and tourism)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- September 13, 2001
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Tourism, along with remittances from Croats working abroad, has long been one of Croatia's main earners of hard currency. But although a primary holiday destination for West Germans and other West Europeans in the 1960s and 1970s, the beaches of Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro became increasingly associated by the 1980s in many Europeans' minds with budget travel. The armed conflicts of the 1990s gave Croatia's tourist business a blow from which it has yet to fully recover. Not only were hotels and other infrastructure damaged or destroyed, but conflicts in Kosova and Macedonia discouraged many tourists from visiting Croatia although peace had been restored there and in ...