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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 1 JUNE, 2009

NUMBER: 4.4.6/1.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

VISITORS TO MAIN TOURIST SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS

First quarter of 2009

 

In the first quarter of 2009, the survey on the number of visitors to main tourist sights and attractions covered 124 museums and galleries. The total number of visitors was 316 233, of which 94% domestic and 6% foreign ones. The greatest number of visits to museums and galleries was realised in the City of Zagreb (203 312), then in the County of Primorje-Gorski kotar (20 453) and in the County of Split-Dalmatia (16 918).

 

The Dubrovnik City Walls were the most visited tourist attraction with 11 019 visits. Regarding fairs, the most visited ones were the Zagreb Fair (30 045 visits) and the Bjelovar Fair (27 298 visits), while the most visited event was the Carnival of Rijeka (180 000 visits).

 

Plitvice Lakes were the most visited place in the category of national parks with 12 508 visitors, out of which there were 31% domestic and 69% foreign ones.

 

 

1.   VISITORS TO NATIONAL PARKS, JANUARY – MARCH 2009

 

I. - III. 2009.

Total

Domestic
 visitors

Foreign
 visitors

 

 

 

 

Total

22 581

9 579

13 002

Brijuni

4 057

2 596

1 461

Kornati

 280

 180

 100

Krka

4 193

1 673

2 520

Paklenica

1 273

1 013

 260

Plitvička jezera

12 508

3 861

8 647

Risnjak

 270

 256

 14

 

 

2.   VISITORS TO MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES, BY COUNTIES, JANUARY – MARCH 2009

 

I. – III. 2009.

 

Number of
units

Total

Domestic
visitors

Foreign
visitors

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Croatia

  124

 316 233

 296 077

 20 156

 

 

 

 

 

County of Zagreb

  6

 4 399

 4 223

  176

County of Krapina-Zagorje

  5

 4 001

 3 488

  513

County of Sisak-Moslavina

  3

 2 147

 2 141

  6

County of Karlovac

  6

 6 758

 6 700

  58

County of Varaždin

  2

 3 789

 3 789

-

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

  6

 2 666

 2 578

  88

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

  7

 1 893

 1 871

  22

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

  8

 20 453

 19 923

  530

County of Lika-Senj

  3

 1 317

 1 317

-

County of Virovitica-Podravina

  1

  450

  448

  2

County of Požega-Slavonia

  1

 2 202

 2 148

  54

County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina

  3

 3 123

 3 062

  61

County of Zadar

  6

 10 730

 10 646

  84

County of Osijek-Baranja

  6

 6 597

 6 535

  62

County of Šibenik-Knin

  4

 5 470

 4 903

  567

County of Vukovar-Sirmium

  4

 2 157

 2 140

  17

County of Split-Dalmatia

  12

 16 918

 16 420

  498

County of Istria

  6

 3 135

 1 887

 1 248

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

  13

 12 347

 3 596

 8 751

County of Međimurje

  1

 2 369

 2 349

  20

City of Zagreb

  21

 203 312

 195 913

 7 399

 

3.   VISITORS TO MAIN TOURIST SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS BY COUNTIES, JANUARY - MARCH 2009 

 

I.-III. 2009.

 

Total

Domestic
 visitors

Foreign
 visitors

 

 

 

 

County of Krapina-Zagorje

 

 

 

Castle Stubički Golubovec

  66

  66

-

Site of Neanderthal Man Hušnjakovo

 2 027

 1 918

  109

Croatian National Marian Shrine of Marija Bistrica

 21 000

 19 000

 2 000

 

 

 

 

County of Karlovac

 

 

 

Old City of Ozalj

  369

  369

-

 

 

 

 

County of Varaždin

 

 

 

Trakošćan Castle

 4 232

 3 613

  619

Old City of Varaždin

 1 535

 1 340

  195

 

 

 

 

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

 

 

 

Old City of Kalnik

 1 000

  800

  200

 

 

 

 

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

 

 

 

Bjelovar Fair

 27 298

 25 348

 1 950

 

 

 

 

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

 

 

 

Fort of Trsat

 1 049

  866

  183

Carnival of Rijeka

180 000

175 000

5 000

Grobnik Circuit

1 086

133

953

 

 

 

 

County of Lika-Senj

 

 

 

Nikola Tesla Memorial Centre

 1 056

 1 056

-

Fort of Nehaj

  947

  921

  26

 

 

 

 

County of Virovitica-Podravina

 

 

 

Papuk Nature Park1)

 7 650

 7 200

  450

 

 

 

 

County of Zadar

 

 

 

Vransko Jezero Nature Park1)

 2 480

 2 290

  190

 

 

 

 

County of Osijek-Baranja

 

 

 

Prandua-Mailath Castle

 2 500

 2 000

  500

Pejačević Castle

  256

  246

  10

Osijek ZOO

 7 884

 7 654

  230

Osijek Antique Fair

 2 000

 2 000

-

Šokačko sijelo, festival of traditional local customs

 12 000

 11 850

  150

 

 

 

 

County of Split-Dalmatia

 

 

 

Salona Archaeological Locality

  268

  28

  240

Fort Klis

  661

  527

  134

 

 

 

 

County of Istria

 

 

 

Castle of Pazin

  730

  445

  285

Pula Amphitheatre

 5 302

 2 006

 3 296

 

 

 

 

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

 

 

 

Trsteno Arboretum

  240

  195

  45

Home of Marin Držić

  390

  292

  98

Dubrovnik City Walls

 11 019

 3 306

 7 713

Aquarium of Biological Institute Dubrovnik

1 112

600

512

 

 

 

 

City of Zagreb

 

 

 

Ice Rink

 19 335

 19 335

-

Zagreb Fair

 30 045

 28 542

 1 503

Zagreb ZOO

 24 958

 24 958

-

 

1) See Notes on Methodology

 

4.     VISITORS OF BATHING RESORTS, BY COUNTIES, JANUARY –  MARCH 2009

 

I. – III. 2009.

Number

of units

Visitors, total

Daily
 visitors

Licence for
repeated
entrance

Entrance
with
paid nights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Croatia

  14

 444 335

 316 949

 72 536

 54 850

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Krapina-Zagorje

  4

 98 461

 59 695

 14 343

 24 423

Thermal baths

  4

 98 461

 59 695

 14 343

 24 423

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Sisak-Moslavina

  1

 32 352

 16 886

  65

 15 401

Thermal baths

  1

 32 352

 16 886

  65

 15 401

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Varaždin

  1

 9 313

 8 713

  600

-

Thermal baths

  1

 9 313

 8 713

  600

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

  1

 14 757

 8 290

 2 724

 3 743

Thermal baths

  1

 14 757

 8 290

 2 724

 3 743

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

  1

 145 000

 144 750

  250

-

Other bathing resorts

  1

 145 000

 144 750

  250

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Osijek-Baranja

  2

 46 071

 35 064

 6 033

 4 974

Thermal baths

  1

 26 271

 20 364

  933

 4 974

Other bathing resorts

  1

 19 800

 14 700

 5 100

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Istria

  1

 3 948

  611

  25

 3 312

Thermal baths

  1

 3 948

  611

  25

 3 312

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Međimurje

  1

 11 548

 8 551

-

 2 997

Thermal baths

  1

 11 548

 8 551

-

 2 997

 

 

 

 

 

 

City of Zagreb

  2

 82 885

 34 389

 48 496

 -

Other bathing resorts

  2

 82 885

 34 389

 48 496

-

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

The data source is the Quarterly Report on Visitors to Main Tourist Sights and Attractions, TU-21 form.

 

Results obtained in this survey refer to some individual sights and attractions on the basis of the written consent of a reporting unit in question (Article 56 of the Official Statistics Act, NN No. 103/03).

 

Observation units are all main tourist sights and attractions for which a number of visitors was reported in the reference period. The number of visitors is usually obtained through the number of tickets sold, but it is also possible for it to be determined according to other records or expert estimates. The following tourist sights and attractions are covered: national parks, parks of nature, strict reserves, forest parks, significant landscapes, monuments of nature, park architecture monuments, old cities, castles, mines, monasteries, famous people’s birth houses, eco-villages, museums and galleries, cultural monuments, festivals, sports events, other events, thermal baths, baths on the Adriatic coast, other bathing resorts, fairs, zoological gardens, aquariums, arboretums, botanical gardens and other tourist attractions not elsewhere classified.

 

Only attractions that in 2008 recorded more than 10 000 visitors were covered in 2009.

 

Tourist attraction is an attractive element in a certain tourist destination, such as a cultural-historical heritage, natural entirety or phenomenon, performance or event, which either motivates future tourists to come or is a mainstay of the development of tourism on that destination.

 

National park is a spatial, mostly unchanged area of extraordinary and multiple natural values, which comprises one or more preserved or slightly changed eco-systems.

 

Park of nature is a spatial natural or partly cultivated area with accented esthetical, ecological, educational, cultural, historical, tourist and recreational values.

 

Strict reserve is an area consisting of unchanged or slightly changed natural characteristics, which is intended exclusively for scientific research, providing that it does not change a biological diversity, authenticity of landscape and that it does not affect natural processes.

 

Special reserve is an area with specially accented one or more unchanged natural components, which has a remarkable scientific value and purpose. A special reserve may be of different kinds, as follows: botanical (floristic, reserve of forest plants etc.), zoological (ornithological, ichthyologic etc.), geological, hydrological, sea reserve.

 

Park forest is a natural or planted forest of an outstanding landscape value, intended for rest and recreation.

 

Protected landscape is a natural or cultivated area of either exceptional esthetical, cultural or historical value, or a landscape characteristic for a particular region.

 

Monument of nature is a detached unchanged part or a group of parts of nature, animate or inanimate, which have a scientific, esthetical, cultural or historical value. It may be geological (a mineralogical or paleontological site, structure of layers etc.), geomorphological (caves, solitary rocks etc.), hydrological (well, falls, lake etc.), botanical (rare plant or plant specimen important for the location it grows on etc.), spatially small botanical or zoological locality etc.

 

Monument of park architecture is an artificially formed space (public garden, botanical garden, arboretum, city park, line of trees, group of trees or an individual tree as well as other types of garden and park architecture) that has a remarkable esthetical, stylistic, artistic, cultural, historical or scientific value.

 

Cultural-historical sights: old city, archaeological sites, castle, mine, monastery, famous person’s birth place, eco-village, monument of culture.

 

Cultural and religious centres: museums and galleries, pilgrimage places.

 

Museums are institutions that systematically and scientifically process, keep and exhibit items that are significant for education, science and art.

 

Events: concerts, festivals, summer games, sports events, other events.

 

Bathing resorts are enclosed and cultivated water areas, usually situated near a water source, intended for bathing. These are recreational bathing resorts.

 

Thermal spas are bathing resorts with water used for health purposes, usually for medical rehabilitation.

 

Coastal bathing resorts are enclosed and cultivated water areas situated near the sea, lake or river.

 

Fairs are media, seen within an overall promotion, means of sale advancement, that is, of personal communication with the market.

 

Zoological garden is an enclosed space in which live specimens of various animal species are kept, exhibited for public, procreated and examined for scientific and educational purposes.

 

Aquarium is an enclosed space in which live specimens of water fauna are kept in water, exhibited for public, procreated and examined for scientific and educational purposes.

 

Arboretum is a separate space or a part of a botanical garden where trees and bushes are grown for scientific, ornamental and educational purposes.

 

Botanical garden is a space where plants (herbs, bushes) and trees from various parts of the world are grown for scientific, educational and sightseeing purposes.

 

The Nature Park Papuk spreads through two counties: of Virovitica-Podravina and of Požega-Slavonia. Data on visitors are expressed as for the County of Virovitica-Podravina.

 

The Vransko Jezero Nature Park also spreads through two counties: of Zadar and of Šibenik-Knin, but data are expressed as for the County of Zadar.

 

A certain number of attractions, although important in a particular region, was not processed in this survey, either because they were closed in the reference period or tickets were not sold or there were not any records on the number of visitors.

 

Data on counties are given by territorial constitution according to the Act on Territories of Counties, Towns and Municipalities of the Republic of Croatia (NN, No. 86/06).

 

Abbreviations

 

etc.         and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

NN         Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

ŠRC      Sports and recreational centre

'000       thousand

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence