Travel to Croatia - where to find information

This is the Croatia flag, same as the Serbian flag, red white and blue from the top down, but with the added picture in the centre.

Where is it? Who are the neighbouring countries? What are the major cities and tourist places?


TRAVEL
CROATIA
Tourist Board
croatia.hr

Independent Information
wikipedia (detailed including history) no ads . Orignally from out of date encyclpaedias, supplemented by a few nerds and people. Increasingly written by full time or retired experts in a confusing amount of detail and jargon. Original reserach and opinions and promotion not allowed, or marked as such - must be from outside independent sources, with references. Out of copyright photos, or notes of in which country the photos may be used.

simple wikipedia (language for people for whom English is a second language, less jargon, quicker to find a fact or photo of a well-known place)

wikitravel (with ads)

wikivoyage (without ads)

tripadvisor (reviews from the public of hotels, museums, landmarks, tours) ads. Reviews may be critical. Hotel managers, restaurant staff and other owners are given the chance to reply with apologies, explanations or retorts.

Travel Advice for your nationality and from your home government

Tour operators (Often for specific regions, or types of travel, such as budget or luxury)
Outgoing operators
Outging (usually show flights from your country of origin). If you are researching on holiday in Italy, the tickbox allowing them to know where you are will give flights from where your phone or laptop is physically, which is handy if you are planning on ongoing journey, no good if you want to go home and start from here later in the year.

Incoming
After you have booked your flights, these operators arrange tours within the country. It's worthwhile comparing which combination gives the best deal. For example, some airlines will give you a reduced price hotel room for a stopover.

Why The Reduction?
The airline might own the hotel or have some deal. I imagine that's an incentive from either the hotel, or the tourist board giving a subsidy or reducing tax to get visitors because the spend per day in the country (there are tables for figures on how much visitors from each country spend, broken down by age groups, time of year and all sorts of things - they know from the VAT they collect. The visitor's spend will be higher than the reduction on the room.

On the other hand, you might find that booking locally on the ground at local prices is cheaper.

See my previous posts on Croatia.

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