Riu Blue Waves opened its doors on the 30th of May on the island of Krk. The beachfront hotel features 97 rooms and is ideal for couples and families who want to enjoy a relaxing holiday. Krk is the largest Adriatic island, with an area of approximately 409km2, and it’s well...

Jadranka Hoteli, a Croatian hotel and tourism company, is to invest more than EUR 80 million between now and 2012 for the reconstruction, refurnishing and re-fitting of its hotels. The investment is partly to be funded by the European Bank for...

EasyJet has launched new flights from Liverpool Airport this week after increasing the number of aircrafts based at the hub to nine. The airline began operating flights to Dubrovnik in Croatia, Bordeaux in France and Naples in Italy, making these destinations

Jezera, a town on the island of Murter, is to get its first hotel. The Association of Croatian and Foreign Entrepreneurs is set to build the hotel, which will have a capacity of 280. The total investment is estimated to be about EUR 20 million and...

Croatia's European Union (EU) accession talks are expected to be resumed by the end of the year, stated EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, while Prime Minister Ivo Sanader foresees entry talks to be completed in 2009...

The new four-star Valamar Lacroma Resort, Conference and Spa has been unveiled by Special Hotels of the World (SHOTW) on the Babin Kuk peninsula near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Facilities at the 401-bedroom resort, which is to be part of the Valamar Hotels and Resorts Group...

The most renowned Croatian brand Vegeta is celebrating this year its 50th birthday, and among series of events organized for the occasion, Vegeta's birthday was celebrated this Saturday, 30th May in Osijek. Renowned actress from Osijek National...

A major new novel about the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, ‘South Wind’, has been published. The author, Christen Thomson, a former BBC journalist, focuses on the ‘gangsterisation’ of the societies of the successor states...

Archaeologists have found an ancient sewn ship over 2000 years old in Novalja. According to a report in Archaeological Discovery, the ship was found in the Caska Bay on the Island of Pag, near Novalja. The lower part of the ship was found, body panels...

American weekly Businessweek writes that signs of recovery of the real estate markets, after the serious crisis which...