In June 2020, Croatia observed a fall in tourist arrivals by -70.99% and a fall in tourist nights by -67.78%.

According to the Croatian National Tourist Board, in June 2020, Croatia observed 915,596 tourist arrivals, representing a decline of -70.99% YoY (3.16m arrivals in June 2019). Note that such figures are in line with our expectations. Of that, foreign tourists accounted for 79%. Meanwhile, tourist nights amounted to 4.86m, which is a decrease of -67.78% YoY. Foreign tourists accounted for 80% of the total tourist nights realized.

Such figures show a positive trend regarding a slowdown in decline in tourist arrivals and night released compared to the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. It is worth noting that arrivals in June account for roughly 15% of total arrivals.  

As a reminder, in April, due to the lockdown, Croatia has witnessed extremely low figures when it comes to foreign arrivals. To put things into perspective, in April Croatia observed 2,349 arrivals compared to 2.87m in the same month last year. Meanwhile in May, Croatia observed a fall in tourist arrivals by -94.8% and a fall in tourist nights by -90.7%.

Tourists from Slovenia recorded the most tourist arrivals, accounting for 22.6% of all arrivals. Tourists from Germany and Austria follow, accounting for 22.2% and 7.8%, respectively. Meanwhile, most of the tourist nights were also observed by tourist from Germany, representing 31.6% of foreign nights (25.26% of total nights realized).

When observing the arrivals realized by counties, Istria leads the list with 30% of the total arrivals. The counties of Kvarner and Zadar follow, accounting for 23% and 13.6% of total arrivals, respectively. Looking at tourist nights, Istria county comes first with 29.3%, followed by Kvarner with 23.6%.

When looking at the nights realized by the type of accommodation, one can observe that private accommodation leads the list with accounting for 32.4% of total nights. Camps follow with 24.8% of nights realized in them. Note that hotels recorded 175,506 arrivals (-83.3% YoY) and 536,804 nights (-85.5% YoY). It is also worth noting that the nights realized in hotels account for 11.04% of total nights realized, which represents a decrease of 13.57 p.p. Such a decrease does not come as a surprise, given that many hotels were not yet open in June and that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand shifted more towards private accommodation.