- Published: 19.12.2017.
PM Plenkovic on marking 25th anniversary of HTZ: In the next year I expect even better tourist season
The Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) on Monday held a ceremony celebrating the 25th anniversary of the establishment of this national organisation whose main task is to enhance Croatia's tourist trade, and addressing the ceremony, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said that the HTZ had done much in promoting Croatia's tourism worldwide and in branding the country as a desirable destination.
"Next year I expect the Croatian tourist trade to achieve even better results and ensure the continuation of investments. We also should have in mind the sustainability of he Croatian tourist trade," the premier said, congratulating the HTZ staff and workers in the tourism sector on excellent results.
He said he was particularly happy to see that after the volume of investment of EUR 800 in the tourism sector this year, investments would increase to 950 million euro in 2018.
Tourism Minister and HTZ president Gari Cappelli and HTZ Director-General Kristjan Stanicic thanked all in this organisation for their efforts in the past 25 years.
This year has been registered records with over 101 million overnight stays of guests, investments have risen and the Financial Times has put Croatia on the seventh place in terms of the country's attractiveness for tourism investments, Minsiter Cappelli said at the ceremony in Zagreb.
Text: Hina