Whilst Germans love to spend their summer vacations along the Adriatic coast it isn’t all one way traffic. According to the latest data from the German National Tourist Board (GNTB), Croatian tourists are among the top ten fastest growing foreign markets in Germany.

The data showed that Croatian tourists achieved an increase of 14.6 percent in terms of overnight stays in Germany in 2016. Most of them or 42 percent travelled to Germany for a holiday vacation and on average spent 66 Euros a day.

Noting that Croatian citizens-tourists in Germany realize four overnight stays on average, Tijana Djuricic, the representative of the regional Belgrade office of the GNTB for Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, emphasized that among all these countries Croatian tourists had recorded the largest increase in overnight stays (42,000) in Germany in 2016.

''We are very pleased with the fact that Croatian tourists do not travel to Germany mostly to visit their relatives (27%), but on vacation (42%) and for business reasons (31%). Our data also shows that 51 percent of travellers from Croatia are aged 35-54, followed by younger population aged 15-34. Most of them (61%) travel by car, whilst a significantly lesser percent of them travel by plane, bus and train'', commented Djuricic.

She also added that Croats are the number one in the region in terms of online bookings, and that their favourite destinations are Bavaria, and the regions of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.

Picture postcard Bavaria