According to the Croatian National Tourist Board, in the first 9 months of 2021, Croatia has witnessed 12.59m tourist arrivals and 80.04m tourist nights.

In the first nine months 2021, Croatia recorded 12.59m tourist arrivals, which represents an increase of 70.52% YoY. Such a result stands at 67% of pre-pandemic period (Jan – Sep 2019). Meanwhile, tourist nights amounted to 80.04m, which represents a 52.65% increase YoY. Compared to 2019, tourist nights stand at 78% (Jan – Sep). We note that 86% of nights realized come from foreign tourists. Of that, tourists from Germany lead with 25.4% (or 20.3m) of total nights realized, followed by tourists from Slovenia (10.78%).

The largest number of tourist nights (22.7m) was registered in Istria County, ahead of Split-Dalmatia County (14.8m) and Kvarner (14.7m). The most popular destinations by number of nights were Rovinj (607k), Poreč (437k), Dubrovnik (380k) and Medulin (332k).

When observing the type of accommodation, the largest portion of nights realized was recorded in private accommodation (38.92%), followed by camps (21.21%) and hotels (17.38%).  To be specific, hotels noted an increase in nights spent by 111.9% and an increase in arrivals by 95.3%. The average nights spent in hotels in the first 9 months stood at 4.1 compared to 3.8 in the same period of the previous year.