Minister of Tourism and Sports Tonči Glavina yesterday he held a meeting with representatives of the tourism sector in Vukovar Vukovar-Srijem County, with the aim of further improving cooperation and coordination and preparing for current and future activities within the framework of the implementation of the reform of tourism development management and in the tourist year 2025.
The meeting was attended by Minister Glavina and Franjo Orešković, deputy prefect who currently holds the position of prefect of Vukovar-Srijem County. This is the sixth regional coordination that Minister Glavina has been continuously holding in the counties since June last year, and so far they have been held in Osijek-Baranja, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Split-Dalmatia, Istria and the island of Hvar.
"Vukovar and Vukovar-Srijem County play an important role in the development of continental and year-round tourism and we are satisfied with the results they achieve, which are getting better year after year. The government has placed great emphasis on the development of the continent through all its investments, and as much as 75% of the total allocation of funds from the National Tourism Development Fund is intended for tourism investments in continental Croatia, both for public infrastructure and for private entrepreneurs. We are talking about a total of 52 projects, which have been co-financed with almost 270 million euros.", said the Minister of Tourism and Sports Tonči Glavina, emphasizing that the Government of the Republic of Croatia is continuously taking care of the development of Vukovar-Srijem County through projects in tourism and sports, for which 14,4 million euros have been provided in the last four-year period.
Glavina added that all these investments are already bringing results, which is confirmed by the general tourist traffic on the continent, which in 2024 was 5% better in both arrivals and overnight stays compared to 2023, while Vukovar-Srijem County is achieving even better results, as it had 3% more arrivals and 9% more overnight stays than in 2023.
"In the coming period, with all these investments, but additionally with all the changes we are introducing, we expect even stronger growth and even greater utilization of all the tourist potentials that the continental part of Croatia has.", Glavina emphasized.
"I take this opportunity and thank the Government of the Republic of Croatia for accepting the initiative of a few prefects that the income from the Tax on real estate in which no one lives and for those that are not in long-term lease, remain entirely in the local community, namely 80% in the local self-government unit on in whose territory the real estate is located, and 20% in the regional self-government unit. It's a good move, because we plan to spend that money on some other tourism projects in our county,"He said Franjo Oreskovic, Deputy County Prefect who currently holds the position of County Prefect of Vukovar-Srijem County.
The county meeting of the tourism sector of Vukovar-Srijem County was attended by representatives of professional associations, the assembly of tourist boards, directors of regional tourist boards, hoteliers, and other relevant representatives of tourism in Vukovar-Srijem County.
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