Flights to Dubrovnik Croatia

From this year holiday in Croatia will become easier to reach and the Dubrovnik will be much more accessible to the tourists. This is because from April or May this year, five low cost airlines have decided and thus, announced that new flights to Dubrovnik will be introduced by them. A German low cost airline called Germanwings, will introduce a direct flight from Hamburg to Dubrovnik and this flight will be started on 2 May, 2010. On the other hand, a British carrier Jer2.com will introduce a direct flight from Edinburgh. Blue1 is a Finnish company and it has announced to introduce a direct flight from Helsinki to Dubrovnik and this flight will be operating Saturdays from April and also on Tuesdays from May. From the end of October 2009 planes which will fly to Dubrovnik twice a week, will be flown by a company which is a part of SAS group since 1998.

Bmibaby is a British company and it has plans to operate flights between East Midlands and Dubrovnik from 30th May every Thursday and Sunday. Flyglobespan is a Scottish airline and it has announced to start a flight from Aberdeen to Dubrovnik and will start in May 2010 and will operate every Wednesday. With so many flights operating between different countries in the world and Dubrovnik, traveling to Dubrovnik will become much easier and more convenient. With better connectivity through different airlines, the number of visitors to this region will increase thus giving a boost to travel and tourism.

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Charter Flights from Osaka to Zagreb

Zagreb, Croatia

At the beginning of June, the first direct charter flight from Osaka to Zagreb arrived at Zagreb airport. The Croatian National Tourist Board organized a welcome ceremony for the 350 passengers and crew-members, who enjoyed a performance of the folklore ensemble “Turopolje”, each receiving a traditional gingerbread heart (“licitarsko srce”) as a gift. The charter flights are organized by the Japanese agency “Hankyu”. For Japanese visitors, they enable faster and easier travel to Zagreb, the capital with the highest increase in the number of visitors from Japan in the region. Since the World Expo exhibition was held in the Japanese city of Aichi in 2005, Zagreb is witnessing a 50 % annual growth rate in the number of Japanese visitors. According to surveys, it is the historical monuments, natural beauties and relaxed way of life that Japanese visitors enjoy most in Zagreb. They also like to visit certain cultural institutions. Two of them are certainly the interesting Museum of Naïve Art and the Botanical Garden, which will be celebrating its 120th anniversary in July. The garden was opened in 1899 and is located within the ‘Lenuci horseshoe’, a stretch of parks and green areas comprising a monumental frame around the lower town. In the garden, numerous rare plants are cultivated. The garden comprises an arboretum, a flower section, 14 greenhouses, three stone areas and two artificial lakes, an inexhaustible source of inspiration to many great Croatian painters. It is on these lakes that the great aquarelle painter Slava Raškaj painted some of her paintings from the ‘nenuphar’ series. Today, these are considered masterpieces of Croatian aquarelle painting from the turn of the 19th century. As part of the Zagreb University, the Botanical Garden belongs to the School of Natural Sciences and has always had educational, cultural and historical value. For the past couple of decades it has realized its full potential in tourism as well. On account of its exceptional cultural and historical value, it was proclaimed a monument of garden architecture in 1971.

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Flights Croatia from Serbia

Zagreb/Belgrade – Loudly billed as the big “return after 18 years,” tourist charters from Belgrade to the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik have been scrapped after only two flights, authorities in Zagreb confirmed Friday. Only two “promotional” flights had been agreed, one completed Thursday and the other planned for Monday, but the rest were not, Croatian transport ministry spokeswoman Marinka Haluzan said.

“Other flights were not allowed because there is no bilateral air traffic agreement between our countries,” Haluzan told the German Press Agency dpa.

The Serbian carrier JAT advertised the flights as a return to the Croatian market 18 years after the former Yugoslavia disintegrated.

But it has now stopped taking reservations and is refunding the 800 tickets sold, the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti said.

Serbian officials said talks would continue next week. In Zagreb, Haluzan said Croatia “in the past insisted on the air traffic agreement … it is unclear why the other side did not want it.”

Charter flights are not a part of air traffic agreements between countries, only regular airline flights. However, the agreement is a “basis for charters,” Haluzan said.

Serbian tourists faced a similar problem when Turkey revoked permits from JAT charters to its summer resorts, reacting to Serbia’s refusal to open the charter-flight market to Turkish companies.

Belgrade eventually allowed private Turkish carriers to take Serbian passengers. The cost of the haggling was eventually borne by tourist companies, which bought rooms in Turkey in advance and lost much business owing to uncertain flights.

Talks with Croatia are even more complex, because they involve issues of ownership over airports and other companies which remain open from the days of the former Yugoslavia.

“We expect that the talks might continue next week, but the question is whether the other side, Serbia, will want to continue,” Haluzan said.

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