In August 2023, an increase of 1.3% in tourist arrivals, but a decrease of 2.3% in tourist nights

Domestic tourists spent the most nights in Vodice, while foreign tourists spent the most nights in Rovinj

In August 2023, the most important tourist month, there were 4.4 million tourist arrivals and 26.9 million tourist nights in commercial accommodation establishments, which was an increase of 1.3% in tourist arrivals, but a decrease of 2.3% in tourist nights compared to August 2022.

Domestic tourists realised 372 thousand arrivals and 2.0 million nights, which was 1.8% more arrivals and 1.2% more nights than in August 2022.

Foreign tourists realised 4.1 million arrivals and 24.9 million nights, which was 1.3% more arrivals, but 2.6% less nights compared to August 2022.
The most foreign tourist nights were realised by tourists from Germany, namely 7.0 million nights, which was 28.1% of the total foreign tourist nights realised in August 2023. Those were followed by the nights realised by tourists from Poland (8.2%), Austria (7.7%), Slovenia and Italy (7.6% each), the Czech Republic (5.8%), the Netherlands (5.1%) and Hungary (4.8%).
Tourists from all these countries realised less tourist nights in August 2023 than in August 2022, except tourists from Austria, who realised 0.4% more nights, and tourists from Hungary, who realised 20.4% more nights.

In August 2023, domestic tourists realised the most nights in Vodice, 77 thousand, which was an increase of 0.3% compared to August 2022. These were followed by the nights realised in Crikvenica and Biograd na Moru (74 thousand each), Šibenik (63 thousand), Mali Lošinj (62 thousand), Zadar (49 thousand), Novalja (43 thousand) and Vir (42 thousand).

Foreign tourists realised the most nights in August 2023 in Rovinj, 1.0 million, which was a decrease of 3.7% compared to August 2022. These were followed by nights realised in Medulin (873 thousand), Poreč (792 thousand), Umag (751 thousand), Dubrovnik (732 thousand), Split (648 thousand), Novalja (605 thousand) and Funtana (584 thousand).

The County of Istria recorded the highest number of tourist nights in August 2023, as much as 8.1 million, which accounted for 30.2% of the total realised tourist nights in Croatia.

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