Applications open for the Annual Croatian Tourism Awards

The Croatian National Tourist Board has opened online applications for Annual Croatian Tourist Awards, which will be awarded this year as part of the event Days of Croatian tourism, a traditional meeting of tourism workers and all stakeholders in the Croatian tourism system.

Applications are open for awards in the categories for best destination of the year, event of the year, cultural attraction of the year, natural attraction of the year and for unique gastronomic experience of the year. Applications are also being accepted for the award People in tourism, within which the Annual Award is presented "Anton Štifanić", Lifetime Achievement Award and the prize "Man - the key to success, employee of the year".

"Croatia is currently experiencing a very successful tourist season, which Croatian tourism professionals have worked hard to prepare. It is precisely the people, along with our beautiful nature, destinations and resource base, that are the most valuable thing we have and for which our country is very well recognized internationally, and by presenting these awards we want to further emphasize this.", said the director of the Croatian National Tourist Board Kristjan Staničić, adding that some new award categories were introduced this year.

Let us recall that last year the annual Anton Štifanić Award was awarded to the founder and owner of the HrTurizam and Turističke priče portals, Goran Rihelj.

/// Goran Rihelj wins the annual Anton Štifanić award

/// The Days of Croatian Tourism concluded with a ceremony awarding awards for the best in tourism

Namely, within the category Destination of the year Two new subcategories have been introduced: the most successful sustainable tourism destination (innovative and smart destination) and for the most successful continental city tourism destination, while with the aim of encouraging the development, preservation and promotion of gastronomy, an award category was introduced this year for unique gastronomic experience of the year.

"The Croatian Tourism Days are an opportunity to recognize tourism workers, but also all others who contribute to a positive image of Croatia with their hospitality, and to reward innovation and quality products, services and people who round all this off into successful tourism stories. We would like to highlight our focus on sustainable tourism and the development of year-round tourism throughout Croatia, as well as products with increasing added value, such as eno-gastro tourism, through new categories as part of this year's awards ceremony. Croatian tourism can boast excellent results, and they are the product of hardworking tourism workers, and therefore I would like to invite all interested parties to apply and nominate their collaborators, so that we can get to know and reward the best of the best that Croatian tourism has to offer.", the Minister of Tourism and Sports said Nikolina Brnjac. 

Let's add that the deadline for submitting candidacies is Friday, August 12, 2022, with a note on how to apply for The annual "Anton Štifanić" award i Lifetime Achievement Award they accept until Wednesday, 31. August 2022. Submission of candidacies is done exclusively via online application forms available at official site Croatian National Tourist Board.

DHT this year in Šibenik

As we unofficially learned, this year's Croatian Tourism Days will be held in Šibenik as part of Solaris. 

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