As Dubrovnik becomes a more and more popular tourist destination it can be tricky to find a spare room on AirBnb, bokking.com and the other popular websites. Often hotels are completely overbooked and the private accommodation scene is a similar story. There are quite simply not enough beds in Dubrovnik for the amount of heads that want to rest on a fluffy pillow.

But why book a room when you can camp on a cliff face overlooking the Adriatic Sea! Quite clearly the nearby Rixos Libertas Hotel was fully booked so these tourists decided to pitch their tent in a cave by the sea. These photos were taken at around 5.00am and show the tent nestled in the rock face with presumably the happy campers inside snoring.

The German low cost airline Eurowings has announced that it will operate flights to Croatia all year around. For this winter Eurowings will operate flights between Koln and Rijeka three times a week, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

This is the first time that the route has been chosen and with the additional of three flights to Croatia in the winter months the country can expect an increase in tourists through a period of the year that is traditionally challenging.

Eurowings already flies to Croatia, to Zagreb, Pula, Split, Osijek, Zadar and Dubrovnik and with these new flights, which will be operated by an Airbus A319, the city of Rijeka will receive a healthy flow of German tourists.

The Mountain Rescue Service of Dubrovnik has proved that they are more capable than goats when it comes to covering rough terrain. On the 18th of July the service received an emergency call to rescue a baby goat that had fallen between rocks near the village of Osojnik around 15 kilometres from Dubrovnik.

According to the official report three members of the mountain rescue arrived on the scene at 9.15am. They attempted to expand the hole in which the unfortunate goat had fallen to pull it out. The goat was stuck at a depth of 3 metres and the after a three-hour mission they finally released it from its confine at 12.30. The lucky goat was in great shape and as soon as it saw the light of day run away.

The long awaited opening of the beach in the Bay of Lapad is hopefully around the corner. The final preparation works are underway and the beach area, which is three times larger than the previous area, should be completed within the next few days.

This whole project has run terribly over schedule, the planned opening was at the end of June, and is obviously causing problems with tourists would have been expecting to be able to roll out their towels and dive in the Adriatic.

Plenty of room to roll out a towel 

Even though it is officially closed some swimmers have decided to take matters into their own hands and started to use the beach. After climbing over or through the fences around the beach area the swimmers jumped into the sea. “They were told to leave after a while,” a source told The Dubrovnik Times.

Thanks to the filming of the HBO series "Game Throne" the Dubrovnik-Neretva County was visited by an additional 244,415 tourists who spent 126 million Euros from 2012 to 2015, according to the research work by the Zagreb Institute of Economics.

In a research paper entitled "The Effects of the Film Industry on Tourism: The Game of the Throne and Dubrovnik" the researchers Marina Tkalec, Ivan Žilić and Vedran Recher evaluated the effects of filming the "Game Throne" series on the tourist results in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. The paper concludes that the recording of this series in Dubrovnik had very positive effects on the tourist results.

An average of 60,000 extra tourists a year visited the city through the period of 2012 to 2015 and in total an extra 1.5 million overnight stays were achieved by Game of Thrones fans.

One of the most popular series in the world, "Game of Thrones” started filming in Dubrovnik in 2011. Dubrovnik was chosen as the location for King's Landing, the fictional capital of the seven kingdoms that frequently appears in the series. The rich and exceptionally preserved Dubrovnik cultural and architectural heritage is ideally suited to the medieval context of the series, which is why snapshots of Dubrovnik city walls, the Lovrijenac Fortress and Lokrum often appear in the series.

And according to this latest research these images of Dubrovnik have not only raised the global recognition of Dubrovnik but have also brought an extra 126 million Euro of revenue to Dubrovnik.

On this day, July 19th, back in 1969, Dubrovnik Cable Car was opened.

That was the first and only cable car built on the Adriatic at that time and for years was one of the most significant attractions and symbols of Dubrovnik. Sadly, during the Homeland War it was completely destroyed.

The renovated cable car was launched on July 10th in 2010, on the day of the opening of Dubrovnik Summer Festival. It is one of the most visited attractions in Dubrovnik since it offers a beautiful view at the Old City.

National Geographic recently published an article with top 5 places in Croatia. It’s interesting that they highlighted Dubrovnik, but not one as top 5 places. Dubrovnik is excluded from this list – it’s clear already from the title: Top 5 Places in Croatia (Beyond Dubrovnik).

- Not to knock Dubrovnik, with its marble streets, 16th-century city walls, sparkling red roof tiles, and primo location—it more than earns its moniker of “Pearl of the Adriatic,” not to mention its UNESCO World Heritage status. But if you cross Croatia off your list after you’ve seen Dubrovnik, you’re missing out on a lot. Here are five other gems to discover – author explains.  

According to National Geographic top 5 places in Croatia are – Hvar, Plitvice, Split, Zagreb and Zadar.

Hvar during the off-season for secluded beaches and charming squares, Plitvice in order to find beautiful lakes, caves, and waterfalls in this stunning UNESCO World Heritage site, Split for the buzz, Zagreb to see world-class museums, Austro-Hungarian architecture, and plenty of cafés in the capital and Zadar to discover Roman and Venetian ruins.
For more details visit the original article.

Culture Club Revelin is having a hot summer season! One of the most attractive clubbing destinations in Croatia has prepared something special for all the party animals out there – DU-EL Fest that starts tonight, July 18th and will last until July 22nd.

Opening night is reserved for world famous DJ Mahmut Orhan, who we had a chance to talk to. In his The Dubrovnik Times interview this young superstar discovered that he prepared something special for Dubrovnik.  Read it here.

Second day of the Festival Ferreck Dawn will play while the third day is reserved for the spectacular performance of Pete Tong, one of the most famous DJ’s in the world – just one of many big names that will shake the Revelin Fortress this summer.
Mike Vale is coming for the fourth day of the Festival, while Saturday is occupied by world famous actor and DJ Ebla&Doorly.

The choice is yours – party one night or five nights in a row.