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3 Kvarner – so close...
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• easily accessible from tourist generating markets:
• by air
• by road
• by sea
• by rail
How to reach Kvarner?
Bratislava
Budapest
Oslo Stockholm
Kiev
Amsterdam
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By air
Airport «Rijeka», Island of Krk www.rijeka-airport.hr
• Flights:
• Croatia Airlines
• Ryanair
• TUI Fly
• Germanwings
• Condor
• SkyWork
• Scandjet
How to reach Kvarner?
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By air
• other surrounding airports in km:
• Zagreb – 165
• Pula – 100
• Ljubljana (SLO) – 115
• Trieste (I) – 72
• Venice (I) - 230
How to reach Kvarner?
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• highways to Middle European and Mediterranean towns
• distance from Rijeka:
• within a radius of 500 km: Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Prague, Belgrade, Dubrovnik
How to reach Kvarner? By car
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By sea
• coastal lines along the Adriatic
• car-ferry services to the islands
• 8 marinas
• Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia
• cruisers
How to reach Kvarner?
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• combination of shores, islands and highland diversities
• 9 renowned tourist subregions
Are you familiar with the Kvarner region?
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10 Are you familiar with the Kvarner region?
Opatija Riviera
• original wellness centre of the Adriatic
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Riviera of Crikvenica
• high energy, sport and health riviera
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12 Are you familiar with the Kvarner region?
Novi Vinodolski Riviera
• valley of wine meeting the spa resort
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Rijeka area
• dynamic hub of the region
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Island of Krk
• heart of the region
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Island of Rab
• island of Renaissance
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Island of Cres
• eco-centre
of the region
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Island of Lošinj
• island of vitality
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Gorski kotar
• forested highlands - just 30 minutes from the sea
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19 Are you familiar with the Kvarner region?
• largest bay in Croatia – the Kvarner Bay
• largest Croatian islands – Krk and Cres
• longest tourist tradition in Croatia – Opatija
• oldest hotel on the eastern coast of the Adriatic – Grand hotel “Kvarner”,
Opatija
• largest port in Croatia – Rijeka (County centre)
• highest mountain peak in the Kvarner region – Bjelolasica-Kula (m) 1.534
• highest settlement in Croatia – Begovo Razdolje (m) 1.060
• narrowest street in the world – Vrbnik, island of Krk
• largest concrete bridge arch – Krčki most
• best known folk instrument in the Kvarner region – sopile (kind of long flute)
• one of the largest wellness centres in Europe – Novi Hotels&Resort, Novi
Vinodolski
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Crossroads of mid European and Mediterranean cultures
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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21 Why visit the Kvarner region? The longest tourist tradition in
Croatia
• More than 160 years, in the course of 3 centuries
• Tourist centenarians:
• Opatija - since 1848
• Fužine - since 1877
• Novi Vinodolski - since 1878
• Lošinj - since 1888
• Crikvenica - since 1888
• Rab - since 1892
• Selce - since 1897
• Baška - since 1907
• Malinska - since 1912
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22 Why visit the Kvarner region? From the Kvarner Guest
Register
Yesterday:
• Franz Joseph I., Anton Pavlovič Čehov, Gustav Mahler, Isidora Duncan, James Joyce, Edward VIII
Today:
• Ivo Pogorelić, Janica Kostelić, Davor Šuker...
ANTON
PAVLOVIČ
ČEHOV
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Year-round destination
Why visit the Kvarner
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A health destination
• pleasant and healthy Mediterranean and mountain climate
• roughly equal land and sea surface
• woods cover half of the land surface
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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A healthy destination
• diversity of preserved pristine nature
• potable (drinking) water
• clean air
• 32 protected areas
• native plants (2700 species)
• butterflies (500 species)
• griffon vulture, dolphin, brown bear and lynx
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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Summer holiday destination
• Pleanty of sunshine
• Cristal clear sea and air, clean sea, numerous beaches with blue flags (pebble, sand, rocks)
• 1.065 km of coast-line
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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27 Why visit the Kvarner region?
• tradition in health tourism and climatic health resorts
• spa and wellness facilities in 42 hotels
• specialized health institutions:
• «Thalassotherapia», Opatija
• «Thalassotherapia», Crikvenica
• Polyclinic «Terme», Selce
• Health resort «Veli Lošinj», Veli Lošinj
Health tourism and wellness
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Congress tourism
• centuries-old tradition
• one of the leading congress destinations in Croatia
• 130 halls
• 15.000 seats
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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Cultural tourism
• rich cultural heritage
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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30 Why visit the Kvarner region? Event tourism
• year-round calendar of events
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Yachting and diving
• sailing
• more than 40 diving sites
• fishing, rafting, canoeing, dolphin watching, wake-boarding, windsurfing...
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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Active holidays
• 1400 km of marked walking paths and promenades
• 800 km of marked hiking trails
• 1300 km of marked cycling tracks
• adventurism
• and other types of sports-recreational tourism (tennis, beach volley, winter program, auto/moto, bird watching, hunting, parachuting, hang-gliding...)
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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Gastronomy and wine products offered
• variety of traditional Mediterranean
and continental cuisine
• more than 250 restaurants and
taverns (“konobas”)
• more than 1000 other catering
facilities
• local wines, brandy and champagne
Why visit the Kvarner region?
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34 Why visit the Kvarner region? Entertainment
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35 Why visit the Kvarner region? Shopping
• Rijeka – atractive urban shopping
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36 Accommodations in the Kvarner region
Accommodation capacity:
• Kvarner
• 178.015 accommodation units
• 19.425 in hotels (11%)
• 41.918 in campsites (24%)
• 95.392 in private accommodation (54%)
• 21.280 in other facilities (12%)
1/5 of
accommodation capacities in
Croatia
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37 Accommodations in the Kvarner region Hotel accommodation
• 11% of total accommodation capacity
• 19.425 accommodation units
• 104 holiday hotels
• 1 resort
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38 Accommodations in the Kvarner region Campsites
• 24% of total accommodation capacity
• 41.918 accommodation units
• 38 camps
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39 Accommodations in the Kvarner region
Private accommodation
• 54% of total accommodation capacity
• 16.317 households
• 95.392 beds
• Quality brand “Kvarner Family”
• www.kvarnerfamily.hr
• family, active and traditional holidays, also local wine and gastronomic products on offer
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40 Accommodations in the Kvarner region Nautical capacity
• nautical tourism ports
• 12 marinas with 3.100 berths at sea
• 1.800 dry berths
• yacht and sailing clubs
• 5 nautical transversals
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Tourist turnover:
• Kvarner – one fifth of Croatian tourism
• on a yearly basis
• 2.4 million guests
• 12 million overnight stays
• 87 % foreign guests
• strongest markets:
• D, SLO, I, A, CZ and H
• HR
Kvarner in figures
1/5 of Croatian
tourist turnover
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42 For more info...
www.kvarner.hr
QR-Code (quick response code)
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www.kvarner.hr
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44 Impressum
Editor: Kvarner County Tourism Office
Photographs and graphic material: various authors
Presentation realization: Quintus marketing, Lovran
© Kvarner County Tourism Office
Opatija, 2012 All right retained
HR-51410 Opatija
Nikole Tesle 2 T: +385(0)51 272-988
F: +385(0)51 272-909 E: [email protected]
KVARNER INFO – ADRIATIC GATE
T: +385(0)51 623-333, 628-888 E: [email protected]