Croatian Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli said the tourism sector is seeing steady growth after recording 6.5 million tourists, who spent 26 million tourist nights, during the first half of this year.
"We have achieved everything we planned, and apart from a slight instability in May due to bad weather, everything went according to plan," Cappelli told a press conference in the village of Fontana in the town of Poreč on the Istrian peninsula, according to Xinhua News Agency.
According to the Croatian National Tourist Board, statistics showed a slight improvement compared with the first half of 2018, which saw 6.4 million tourists spend 25.4 million tourist nights.
It is worth noting that Croatia is located in southeastern Europe and is among the most popular tourist destinations on the Mediterranean. Its economy relies heavily on the tourism sector, whose share of total growth in domestic output is about 20%. In 2018, Croatia received 19.7 million tourists, up 6.5% compared with 2017.
