The European Commission - DG Enterprise and Industry just published a guide on EU funding for the period 2014-2020 in the tourism sector. As EU says in the Introduction "A specific guide was also necessary because of the diversity of the tourism sector's needs and the range of EU thematic programmes that can, by consequence, support it". Starting from the strategic importance of tourism for the EU, the guide goes through all the European...

CNN.com in cooperation with the Croatian National Tourist Board published a photo gallery of the "20 most beautiful places in Croatia" on the cover page of its international edition of Travel section. Visitors are suggested to explore the fictional kingdoms of Westeros without sword fights and scheming because much of the "Game of Thrones" was filmed in Croatia. With brief descriptions of locations in Croatia, interesting facts related to them...

Karlovac is bicycle friendliest city in the country! That is the result of the evaluation of cities with the infrastructure for the use of bicycles within the framework of the recently ended international project "Mobile 2020" presented by the Regional Environmental Center Croatia.    For that title competed ten cities, and Karlovac took the title in front of Velika Gorica.     "Mobile2020" was conducted in eleven countries of Central and...

As a part of the promotional campaign 'Visit Croatia. Share Croatia.' Croatian National Tourist Board has launched a separate web page that transmits real-time photo and video moments of tourists visiting Croatia published on social networks Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine with the hashtag # lovecroatia and # sharecroatia.    Actors, directors, models and presenters of Croatia are real people who have visited Croatia and want to share...

Department of Enterprise, Agriculture and Tourism of the City of Karlovac has issued a call to all farmers enrolled in the Farm Register, associations and other entities interested in the use of subsidies of the City of Karlovac in 2014. and in accordance with the Implementation Program of Support to Agriculture and Implementation Program of Rural Development in the City of Karlovac for 2014.    Within subsidies to encourage rural development...

Ministry of Tourism intends to support a variety of programs in order to improve the competitiveness of the tourism offer with a total allocation of 74.1 million kunas. The largest amount of 40 million kunas is related to the assets of the Fund for the Development of Tourism that will be allocated for the first time this year for the project that support the development of tourism infrastructure and preservation of tourist resources. The news is...

On Wednesday in Karlovac it was held an information session within the project SMEPASS2 about the possibilities that SMEs in the manufacturing sector and the tourism sector will be able to use, presented by Stephen O`Mullen, Team Leader, Jürgen Mendritzki, marketing expert and Fernando Fernandez Gomez, an expert in quality assurance. Project SMEPASS 2 provides SMEs with the possibility to use free consulting services in the areas of quality,...

Operational Programes "Transport", "Environment", "Regional Competitiveness" and "Human Resources Development" , as well as the already active projects funded under each operational program were presented yesterday in Zagreb. These four operational programs were adopted by the European Commission in September and October this year, which enables now publishing of public calls. However, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development...

Representatives of 19 European tourist destinations, including Rural tourism "Stancija 1904" from Istria, Croatia were awarded European Destination of Excellence in Brussels on 11 November. This reward is granted to those locations that develop the tourism offer in a way that is accessible to all people, regardless of physical limitations, disability or age. Rural tourism "Stancija 1904" was chosen for a national winner in Croatia by an expert...

Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds announced tenders for small and medium enterprises which will be published by the end of the 2013th under the Operational Programme "Regional Competitiveness". Aid on the basis of that public call will be granted in the context of measures for the development of public infrastructure, the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and competitiveness of the tourism industry. Calls...