May 29, 2022 – Bookings to the beautiful Plitvice Lakes National Park over this ongoing long weekend have been excellent, with foreign visitors dominating.

As Novi list/Marin Smolcic writes, the current very encouraging arrivals and stays on the grounds of the Plitvice Lakes National Park continue to be maintained, we can certainly count on an excellent season, believes the famous director of the park, Tomislav Kovacevic.

The past two weeks have been great, if a little too hot for some, for Croatia’s most beautiful and oldest national park. Just as in the summer months, there have been queues at entrances one and two to Plitvice Lakes National Park in recent days, and there has generally been a longer waiting time for guests seeking transportation on electric boats and on the park. very popular panoramic trains.

Speaking of the beautiful nature, flora and fauna that this park boasts in abundance, everything blossomed and gorgeous green hues soon dominated the landscape of Plitvice Lakes National Park. From a tourism point of view, the situation is very similar in terms of customer arrivals. This was confirmed by the director of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Tomislav Kovacevic.

“Since this extended weekend is as it is due on State Day, we cannot count on huge crowds, there will be mainly domestic guests visiting the park, and this will more than likely continue. to be a common situation for us as we still have an occupied occupancy of our hotels of around 80% compared to the pre-pandemic record year of 2019. The share of foreign guests now represents more than 80% of the total number of visitors to this national park,” Kovacevic said.

Due to the intensification of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Far East, there are still no organized tours to Plitvice Lakes National Park by guests from China, Indonesia, Japan and from South Korea, which in previous years represented a significant portion of the entire fleet. Number of visitors.

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