These figures also demonstrate that, with regard to the areas, Istria saw the greatest number of arrivals during the first ten months, totaling 4.9 million visitors—a five percent rise over 2022. EU Helpers notes that Split-Dalmatia County trailed closely after with 3.8 million arrivals, indicating an 11% increase from the prior year.
Furthermore, Kvarner had 3.1 million arrivals, up 5% from 2022; Zadar County recorded two million arrivals, up 6% from the year before; and Dubrovnik-Neretva County recorded two million arrivals, up 18% from the year before.
Additional information from eVisitor revealed that the following other Croatian regions also had high arrival rates:
The county of Šibenik-Knin (one million)
County of Lika-Senj (752 000)
With 1.1 million, Zagreb
Over a million new arrivals were reported in the remaining parts of the nation, a 15% rise from the previous year.
Regarding the top destinations, Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Split, Rovinj, Poreč, and Zadar experienced the most arrivals over the first ten months. In terms of source markets, the German market accounted for the greatest number of arrivals over the same time, followed by Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland, with 3.3 million, 2.5 million, 1.6 million, 1.6 million, and 1.1 million arrivals, respectively.
As we draw closer to the end of yet another extremely difficult tourism year, the dynamics and volume of visitors that still flow through our nation are the clearest signs that Croatia is becoming a more and more popular year-round travel destination.
Director of the Croatian Tourism Board Kristjan Staničić
According to data from the eVisitor system, Croatia saw 1.1 million visits and 3.6 million overnight stays in October 2023—a 13% rise in arrivals and an 11% increase in overnight stays over the same month the previous year.
In the same month, Zagreb saw 119,000 arrivals (an 18% rise) and 226,000 overnight stays (a 6% increase), while the Adriatic counties recorded 844,000 arrivals (a 12% increase compared to 2022) and 3.2 million overnight stays. There were 195,000 overnight stays (an increase of 8%) and 102,000 arrivals (a 14% increase) in the remaining continental areas.
Not only that, but the breakdown of arrivals in October shows that visitors from within the country accounted for the majority of arrivals—214,000—followed by visitors from Germany (153,000), Slovenia (80,000), Austria (78,000), and the United States (63,000).