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Croatia removes visa regime for Russian tourists

Mon, Mar 01 2010 10:24 CET

byNick Iliev

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Croatia removes visa regime for Russian tourists

Dubrovnik, Croatia

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As part of its anti-crisis measures, Croatia will allow all Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakhstan nationals visa-free entry into the country during summer 2010, for the period April 1 to October 31, Bulgarian media reported on March 1, citing a Croatian government media statement.

The measure also stipulates that nationals of these three countries will be able to stay in Croatia for 90 days.

This is the second time that Croatia has resorted to such measures. Croatia also offered visa-free tourist packages to Russian tourists in the summer of 2009.

The government is undertaking measures aimed at boosting the local tourism sector, which suffered an 11 per cent decline in 2009, Dnevnik daily reported.

Meanwhile, the Turkish tourism and culture ministry reported a seven per cent growth in tourism during January 2010. Authorities say that the increase was attributed to the more flexible visa regime with Syria, Libya, Lebanon and Jordan, introduced at the end of 2009.

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Anonymous JG Tue, Mar 02 2010 00:43 CET
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With Visa you cannot keep criminals out of the country so why have them?

Anonymous Cosmos Mon, Mar 01 2010 20:44 CET
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Bulgaria will never learn about money and its value well done to Croatia.I hope all the tourists give BG a miss this year they might then think what are we doing wrong.

(Dreaming again)

Anonymous Dianne Hatton Mon, Mar 01 2010 18:44 CET
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Meanwhile, Bulgaria still see that Russian tourists are put off by retaining the visa requirement. There must be 10's if not 100's of thousands of Russians want to holiday in Bulgaria but can't be bothered with the visa debarcle.


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