Dubrovnik Achieved Record-Breaking Tourism Results in 2016!

9% MORE GUESTS THAN LAST YEAR WELCOMED THE NEW YEAR IN DUBROVNIK!

According to check ins and check outs of tourists recorded through the eVisitor system, 4,838 guests welcomed New Year’s 2017 in Dubrovnik, which is 9% more than for New Year's Eve 2016.

 

According to the data, most guests were Croatian, followed by guests from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Portugal, Albania, the United States, Austria, Italy, Spain and Germany.

 

The success of the Third Dubrovnik Winter Festival is also shown through tourism results for December 2016, when Dubrovnik had 18,154 tourist arrivals (26% more than the previous year) and 43,399 overnight stays (27% more than in 2015). In December, the most guests were from Croatia, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, the United States, Korea, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan and Portugal.

 

According to statistics from the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, in 2016 Dubrovnik achieved record-breaking results. From 1 January to 31 December 2016 there were 1,013,030 arrivals in Dubrovnik, which makes for a total of 12% more arrivals than in 2015. During 2016, there were 3,481,513 overnight stays, which was an increase of 13% compared to 2015.

 

The top-list of countries from which tourists in 2016 arrived in Dubrovnik was led by the already traditional guests from the United Kingdom, Germany, USA, France, Croatia, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Italy.

 

The eVisitor system did not include nautical tourism in 2016, which from 1 January to 31 December 2016 saw 23,372 arrivals (13% less than in 2015) and 230,902 overnight stays (5% more than in 2015).

 

The total number of arrivals from 1 January to 31 December 2016, including nautical arrivals, was 1,036,402 and there were 3,712,415 overnight stays.