In May 2020, Croatia observed a fall in tourist arrivals by -94.8% and a fall in tourist nights by -90.7%.

According to the Croatian National Tourist Board, in May 2020, Croatia observed 86,413 tourist arrivals, representing a decline of -94.8% YoY (1.65m arrivals in May 2019). Of that, foreign tourists accounted for 48%. Meanwhile, tourist nights amounted to 524,185, which is a decrease of -90.7% YoY. Foreign tourists accounted for 56% of the total tourist nights realized. Such figures were expected, given that global travel was suspended for a large part of May due to Covid-19 lockdown.

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.

Tourists from Slovenia recorded the most tourist arrivals, accounting for 26% of all arivals. Tourists from Germany and Bosnia & Herzegovina follow, accounting for 14% and 2%, respectively. However, each of these top 3 tourists by country of origin also observed a drop in arrivals greater than 80%. Meanwhile, most of the tourist nights were also observed by tourist from Slovenia, representing 40% of foreign nights (18% of total nights realized).

When observing the arrivals realized by counties, Istria leads the list with 22.9% of the total arrivals. The counties of Kvarner and Zadar follow, accounting for 22.8% and 14% of total arrivals, respectively. Looking at tourist nights, Istria county comes first with 22.3%, followed by Split-Dalmatia county with 18.1%.

When looking at the nights realized by the type of accommodation, one can observe that private accommodation leads the list with accounting for 27.4% of total nights. Camps follow with 8.4% of nights realized in them. Note that hotels recorded a 98% decrease in arrivals and 99% decrease in tourist nights realized.