One of the world’s largest manufacturers of telecommunication equipment has installed a Croatian smart bench in Hungary.

The Finnish company Nokia recently installed the Croatian product - a smart bench Steora, in front of its central office in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.

One of the leading European manufacturers of innovative solutions for ‘’smart cities’’ headed by a young innovator and an ‘’IT genius’’ Ivan Mrvos from Solin near Split and his team are responsible for designing the Steora smart bench. Their main goal is to raise human awareness about renewable energy and environmental protection.

The Steora smart bench is a green invention ideal for cities, parks, airports, marinas, business and shopping centres. It includes batteries, which are powered by solar panels; they provide internet access and the possibility to charge mobile phones and laptops by USB charger. Steora also gathers data about air quality, humidity, city noise, displays advertising, and provides light at night.

So far, more than 450 smart benches have been installed in 23 world countries such as Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States, Qatar, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia as well as in Hong Kong and in front of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.

As from this summer, the Croatian city of Zadar will be connected with the capital of the Netherlands.

TUI fly Netherlands or TUI Airlines Netherlands, a Dutch charter airlines within the German travel conglomerate TUI Group, will operate flights between Zadar in the Dalmatian region and Amsterdam next summer.

The new flight will be operated once a week, on Fridays, starting from the 6th of July until the 31st of August 2018 with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

TUI fly Netherlands carries out regular and chartered flights, although most of the chartered flights are operated for the Dutch tour operator TUI Netherlands. It operates to destinations in the Mediterranean, Finland, the Canary Islands, the Red Sea, Mexico, the Caribbean, the United States, Africa, the Middle East and the Dutch Caribbean.

In addition, TUI fly Netherlands maintains code share agreements with Surinam Airways.

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Of the ten most developed Croatian cities seven are on the coast. The Ministry of Regional Development has released a new model of urban development indexes for the period 2014-2016.

The most developed Croatian city is Zagreb, with a development index of 116.56, which means the average annual income per capita of 44.733 Kuna and average per capita income of 6,232 Kuna. The second is Dubrovnik with an index of 115.64 and revenues even higher than in Zagreb – 7,394 Kuna per capita. The third is Poreč, followed by Krk, Rovinj, Umag, Sveta Nedelja, Hvar, Opatija, Zaprešić and Novalja.

The development index is calculated factors such as average income per capita, average unemployment rate, general population trends, share of educated population aged 20 to 64 and age index.

In fact Dubrovnik has the second highest average salary in the ten most developed cities in Croatia, at 7,394 Kuna, only beaten by Opatija which has an average income of 7,626 Kuna.

Croatia’s external debt seems to be going in the right direction according to the latest data. At the end of September 2017 the gross foreign debt amounted to 39.4 billion Euros, which is 3.1 billion Euros less than of September 2016.

A study carried out by Raiffeisenbank Austria shows that the external debt of Croatia is slowly falling and that the drop is mainly due to deleveraging from the Croatian government.

The debt as a percentage of GDP stood at 81.5 percent at the end of the third quarter of 2017, which is down from 84.7 percent from the previous quarter. The general government debt and other domestic categories led the way in reducing the overall external debt, each achieving a debt reduction of €1.4 billion over the year.

As 2017 came to an end so the final figures for Dubrovnik Airport were revealed. The airport in Cilipi cemented its position as the third busiest airport in Croatia with a record breaking year handling over 2.3 million passengers.

Last year was the first time in history that Dubrovnik Airport had handled over 2 million passengers, mainly thanks to a strong summer season. In fact, in terms of passenger numbers last year only one month, March, was down on 2016. By far the busiest months for the southernmost airport in Croatia were July and August when almost a million passengers passed through.

This is in sharp contrast to the winter months where the airport, and Dubrovnik in general, is still struggling to attract tourists. In January 2017 only just over 19,000 passengers used the airport and in February this number had climbed slightly to almost 23,000. However even the bleaker winter months showed an increase in guests compared to 2016, and the airport finished the year strongly with November (+40.4 percent) and December (+20.5 percent) showing drastic improvements.

This year, if indicators are to be believed, should be even more successful for the airport with many international airlines introducing new flights. This will not doubt be boosted by the fact that Easyjet has announced that they will increase operations to Dubrovnik by a huge 30 percent. The British low-cost carrier is already the second most frequent airline landing at Dubrovnik Airport, after the Croatian national carrier, Croatia Airlines, and this strong increase could see the airport break the 2.5 million mark in 2018.

Thomson Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle have also announced an increase in operations to the city by 20 percent for 2018.

The fourth Dubrovnik Winter Festival came to an end last night with a concert by the Dubrovnik band The Bourbons in the Gundulic Square.

The Gundulic Square seemed a fitting end to the festival as the festive houses in the square have provided the best atmosphere this year. The organisers of the Dubrovnik Winter Festival commented that “This year's festival brought to life some new locations, bringing them the spirit of Advent and the holidays.” The highlight of the festival was the New Year celebrations on the Stradun when up to 15,000 people welcomed in 2018.

Check out the gallery of last night by Tonci Plazibat

The globally popular Croatia cello duo, 2Cellos, have released their latest video and it is titanic in more ways than one. A cover version of the theme tune to the 1997 Oscar award winning movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, "My Heart Will Go On."

This stunning new 2Cellos video is one of their most complex ever, featuring Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser in underwater scenes.

Already the video, which was released on the 5th of January, has been watched by over 200,000 fans on YouTube.
The echoing Celine Dion classic is the latest result of the 2Cellos co-operation with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Check out the 2Cellos in their Titanic new video below