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Croats Spent 8 Billion Kuna on Travel Last Year

In Croatia, 57 percent of residents aged 15 and older did not travel for multiple days last year, while 43 percent did so at least once, spending a total of 8 billion kuna, according to data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS).

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These are preliminary data from the DZS on the tourist activity of the population in 2017, which show that the most common reasons for not going on multi-day trips in 2017 were financial, with 55.2 percent citing lack of money, 25.6 percent citing health reasons, and 20 percent citing lack of time due to family obligations.

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The reasons for the 43 percent or 1.6 million residents of Croatia aged 15 and older who traveled privately for at least one multi-day trip in 2017 were primarily vacation, for 32 percent, and visiting relatives and friends, for 28.3 percent.

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Of the total of their 4.2 million trips, 63 percent or 2.6 million were within Croatia, where they spent 44 percent or 3.5 billion kuna of the total 8 billion kuna expenditure. In Croatia, they also accounted for the majority of the total 26.6 million overnight stays, or 65.2 percent or 17.4 million, with the majority or 68.3 percent of those overnight stays occurring in non-commercial accommodation, most often at relatives’ and friends’ homes, followed by their own houses, apartments, weekend homes, etc.

Although they made fewer trips abroad in 2017, with 1.5 million private multi-day trips and 9.3 million overnight stays, Croatian travelers spent much more on trips abroad, amounting to 4.5 billion kuna, with the most common travel destinations being Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy, followed by Germany, Austria, and Slovenia.

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In addition to multi-day trips, residents of Croatia also went on 4.3 million one-day trips in 2017, of which the majority or nearly 4 million were private, while the rest were business trips.

Only 8 percent of residents traveled for business

Only 8 percent of the Croatian population, or 301 thousand people aged 15 and older, went on at least one business trip in 2017, making a total of 842 thousand such trips, almost equally split between Croatia and abroad – 50.4 percent or 424 thousand business trips were domestic, while the rest were abroad, amounting to about 418 thousand trips.

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In all this data on the tourist activity of the population of Croatia in 2017, the DZS does not provide a comparison with 2016.