According to the latest announcements from Riga International Airport, the Latvian low-cost air carrier airBaltic will launch direct summer flights to Croatia next year.

During the next summer season new flights will be operated twice a week between the Latvian capital of Riga and the Croatian city of Split from the 21st of May 2018.

"Network expansion is a key part of our Horizon 2021 business plan that enables us to further improve connections between the Baltic region and the rest of the world", commented Wolfgang Reuss, the SVP Network Management at Air Baltic.

The Latvian air carrier has a fleet of 30 aircraft and operates flights to 68 destinations around the world. In the first half of this year airBaltic has carried 1,565,462 passengers throughout its network in Europe, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Middle East, which is the second highest number of passengers in the history of the airline.

Dubrovnik is a city of romance, a city of culture, a city of history and unfortunately over the past few years a city of kayaks! This “colourful” scene of a multitude of kayaks was taken on the Pile bay area of the historic Old City and shows stacks of these plastic boats running the view for tourists and locals. Kayaking has exploded in Dubrovnik in recent years and like mushrooms after the rain companies offering all kinds of tours.

Whilst business is obviously booming, and good luck for that, the organisation of the kayaks has got a little out of control. Imagine going for a romantic stroll and hoping to soak up the proud history of the Dubrovnik walls only to be met with hundreds of kayaks washed up on the beach.

And as the City Council and the Mayor seem determined to bring some order to the city’s tourism business maybe the organisation of these kayaks, basically on the doorstep on the city, is a good place to start.

The main coastal road above Dubrovnik was once again the scene of an accident today. At around 2.45pm a driver lost control of his vechile and rammed into the carsh barrier. Thankfully the barrier did it's job as it fences off a 100 metre fall down rocky cliffs.

The road was blocked for some time whilst the emergency services dealt with the incident and there were no injuries. It appears that according to reports the driver lost control of his vechile, served accross the road and hit the barrier.

Global risk index in economy, which takes into account only four criteria, has proved quite favourable for Croatia.

Based on three out of four measured data, Croatia has been included in the company of the least risky economies in the world.

The global risk index in economy is Bloomberg's index which measures the share of international reserves of the central bank, excluding the state gold in GDP, the share of the unemployed in a society, the rate of inflation and the fluctuation rate of the exchange rate.

As far as Croatia is concerned, the country has a high reserve share of almost 26 percent, thus, according to this criterion Croatia is among the nine least risky countries in the world. Due to the expectation of a low inflation rate of only 1.2 percent, the country has placed as the 14th in the world.

However, when it comes to employment, Croatia is a risky country. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), this year Croatia should have an unemployment rate of 11,7 percent, thus, the country is the 75th among 82 countries that carried out these measurements. Croatia did not measure fluctuations in domestic currency exchange rates. All and all, Croatia has left a good impression in the overall research that has taken into account a very narrow field of economy.

Furthermore, Russia is in a worse position than Croatia in terms of reserves, among other things, due to the fact that its central bank has a large share of gold reserves that has not been taken into account.

The rate of inflation is often growing faster if the economy is growing intensely thus if GDP growth is not taken into account as a parameter but only inflation, the low level of inflation can be perceived as a factor of additional stability.

In addition, the lowest risky country in terms of the rate of inflation is Switzerland, in terms of the share of reserves in GDP is Hong Kong, whilst Qatar is the least risky country when it comes to employment with only 0,3 percent of the unemployed.

Looking for an unforgettable night out on the town in Dubrovnik? The chance to meet new friends, hit some of the hottest bars and nightclubs and dance the night away – we have the solution – a Pub Crawl! Now we probably all know what a pub crawl is, but we are normally doing it in our home town. Now with these new pub crawls from Ziggy Star you can go on a Dubrovnik pub crawl (and save yourself money at the same time).

This is three steps to the perfect hit out in the Old City of Dubrovnik. The tour starts at 10.00pm every night when your host for the night meets and greets you on the Pile Gate in front of the city.

Step one – from Pile Gate you make your way down to the first drinking hole of the night, the funky B4 bar, and what the guys from Ziggy Star call a “Power Hour.” In this warm up bar you’ll have an hour of free drinks (yes, you read that correctly an hour of free drinks) combined with thumping music and great company.

Step two – off to the second bar of the night. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine,” well it isn’t a gin joint but it is named Casablanca, where you’ll be treated with a free welcome drink. That’s right you’ve been living large for over an hour and you haven’t put your hand in your pocket yet. This trendy bar is slap bang in the middle of the city centre and a popular destination for the “in” crowd.

Step three – these couple of hours in the Dubrovnik bars (where you have mostly been enjoying free cocktails) have only been a warm up for the main event – Culture Club Revelin. This is where the volume on your pub crawl evening gets rammed up to the maximum with the most famous night club, not only in Dubrovnik, but in the region. Raise the roof as your pub crawl ticket also entitles you to free entrance into the hottest nightspot in town. And you have never seen a club like this before. Located in a massive stone fortress the club has the most spectacular light shows you have ever seen and is also host to the most sought after DJ’s on the planet.

With the Ziggy Star Dubrovnik Pub Crawl you night out will be a night out to remember. And yes you’ll certainly remember it as the team from Ziggy Star have a personal photographer who follows your group all night catching all those moments (and yes some might be embarrassing) for you to upload on your social media accounts in the morning.

By 10.00am the next day you’ll have all the “proof” of a thumping night out as the photos arrive in your inbox! Check them out here

We know what you’re asking “sounds great but how does it cost?” All this comes for only 250 Kuna (or 33 Euros).

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The long, hot Croatian summer has brought with it a number of incidents for the fire brigade, with numerous forest fires all the way along the Adriatic coast. The latest fire in the Dubrovnik region broke out last night on the island of Mljet.

A thick pine forest caught fire and due to the strong northerly winds quickly spread. According to reports from the Mljet fire brigade no residential properties are in danger at this moment.

Thirty fire-fighters from the Mljet fire brigade were quickly on the scene and along with the assistance of the staff of the Mljet National Park fought the fire to bring it under control. Fifty additional fire-fighters are on standby in Dubrovnik if required and a special ferry line will transfer them if needed.

LATEST UPDATE

The fire on Mljet is under control and there is no dnager to houses. The fire broke out in the village of Ropa on Mljet and spread towards Blato. 

It is a well known fact that in this modern technological era, computers, smart phones and the internet are the best way to express one's opinion, to organize protests or even revolutions; in some cases, they even make governments fall or the world jump to its feet.

As far as social networks and politicians are concerned, Donald Trump is best known as the Twitter President, whilst the Slovenian President Borut Pahor is the King of Instagram. However, the question is who are Croatian Trump and Pahor?

At first glance, Twitter seems scarce for Croatian politicians. ''It seems to me that most of our politicians are of a protocol type'', says Ankica Mamic, a communications expert. In other words, Croatian politicians on social networks are boring; followers can only read their congratulations to athletes, posts on where they went and with whom they met, and things like that.

''People do not express any interest in communication and interaction with such profiles because they do not bring anything that cannot be heard or read in the news'', explained Mamic. For example, posts of the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic reach around 400,000 people; however, it is more than obvious that she does not write any of her posts because they are all official, dry and dull, unlike Trump who obviously writes his posts by himself.

Nevertheless, Croatia has a politician interesting to social media. The young member of the Croatian Parliament Ivan Pernar has almost 200,000 followers. His live broadcasts, information on evictions, cell phone recordings in the Parliament, you name it. Pernar cleverly uses all means of the modern era to make a brand out of his profile. ''He is one of those who use all advantages of Facebook quite well. First of all, he is doing all this just to make an incident so people can talk about it'', commented Kresimir Macan, a communications expert.

Just for comparison, the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has only 65,000 followers on Facebook, whilst the popular singer Severina has more than 900,000 followers.

The President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is the most popular political figure on Twitter; however, she has only 43,600 followers, or ten times less than on Facebook. The Prime Minister Plenkovic is way behind her with 15,600 followers, whilst the former Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has 13,000 followers. Kosor has managed to survive the political turbulence and keep her position in the Croatian political sky thanks to her sharp, fast and relevant twits on that social network.

This has got to be our photo of the day. These Korean tourists just couldn’t wait to get the perfect morning shot of Dubrovnik.

They were so determined and excited to get their cameras and iPads out that they forgot to get dressed! The whole family was spotted on the Ploce area on Dubrovnik this morning still wearing their pyjamas.