„WTF Dubrovnik“ – Amazing venue festival

 

Unlike many foreign organisations „WTF Dubrovnik“ Festival is 100% local production, it is held in Dubrovnik and organizers believe that this event will become popular and recognized as others world renowned electronic dance music festivals organized along the Croatian cost.

3-day audio visual festival „WTF Dubrovnik“ is the first open air festival in Dubrovnik, and was held from August 5th to August 8th at three different locations. First festival night was held in front of the Fort Imperial at the top of Srđ mountain above the old city. Fort Imperial and its surroundings became exclusive summer stage for the first time. For this occasion world famous Kevin Yost and local support by Audiometric b2b Torres, Djivo aka dBA and Flora & Lija were performing.

Second festival night was held at Club „Lazareti“ and „Komarda“ beach with the acts of local DJs Zookey, Petra and Maroje and regional DJs Pion, Jakša Pavičević and Wecky & Jux.

Third and final festival night was held at a boat cruise party with Jamie Anderson, Bronski & Herya, Klabika Collective and local support by Denis T, Benx and Funk You.

„WTF Dubrovnik“ Festival is organized by NGO „Kazin“, which tends to promote all aspects and forms of urban culture.

More info can be found at Facebook page facebook.com/wtfdubrovnik/

Media coverage that promotes the popularity of Dubrovnik

Multi-million readership and immense financial value

From the beginning of the year to the end of June, Dubrovnik was visited by more than a hundred teams of journalists, including TV crews, and independent photographers or reporters with  accompanying photographers from various markets from Europe and around the world. The organization of press visits is part of the regular activities of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board and these visits are implemented in cooperation with foreign representations within the Croatian National Tourist Board system, the Dubrovnik - Neretva County Tourist Board, and independently. During March, April, May, and June our city was visited by journalists from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Australia, the US, Japan, China, Korea, Canada , Argentina, and Brazil. The largest group was certainly the group of 36 journalists that arrived during a press tour that was jointly organized by Turkish Airlines and the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, with the support of the Main Office of the Croatian National Tourist Board.

The media coverage that comes as a result of study visits by journalists makes a strong contribution to the promotion of Dubrovnik, known and recognized on international tourism markets for its beauty and tourist offer, but lately it has also been strongly affirmed as a destination for film production.

The magazine GEO SAISON, a monthly magazine that is published in German with a circulation of 92,000 copies and nearly 600,000 readers a month, brings a kind of guide to our city prepared by Natalie Schweiger, who visited the city in April. This important monthly magazine has more than ten million readers worldwide, and in it the journalist suggests visiting attractions and points of interest within 3 km from the old city centre, including the restaurants Amfora and Stara Loza, Buža Bar, Culture Club Revelin, Game of Thrones filming locations, as well as visiting the art studio of painter Dubravka Lošić, located in the complex of the former Radeljević factory.

The visit of thirty-six journalists in May through the framework of the joint project by Turkish Airlines and the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, was followed by a whole series of releases, of which we would like to highlight last week’s piece about Dubrovnik and the inaugural flight from Istanbul by the Japanese journalist Aisha Takase published on the web portal www.crea.bunshun.jp. A piece by Korean journalist Lee Sung Won was also published in the daily newspaper and web portal Hankook Ilbo, and Korean journalist Nam Ho Chul wrote an article for the daily newspaper and portal Kookmin Ilbo titled ˝Blue beyond Orange ... Jewel of the Adriatic Sea˝. Also, a feature titled ˝ Red wave welter in alleys meeting sea˝ by Heo Yoon Hee was published in the daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

In May, French journalists from Air France inflight magazine Cécile Balavoine and Tadzio Pacquement, who described the sounds of Croatia in a very interesting way, visited the Dubrovnik Department for Conservation of the Croatian Conservation Institute, where they talked about the restoration of works of art with Katarina Alamat Kusijanović.

Air France inflight magazine is distributed in 4.2 million copies every month, including 930,000 readers from Europe and 398,000 French readers, and the estimated value of media publications about Croatia and Dubrovnik is as high as 390,000 euros.

˝A DAY IN THE LIFE OF Dubrovnik˝, a piece by the author Lars Collin with photos by Mauro Rongione, who visited Dubrovnik 2015, was published in the June issue of the SAS Inflight magazine Scanorama with a five-page interview with the Jadran Gamulin, a famous Croatian sailor and shipbuilder from Dubrovnik, while the accompanying guide reveals some new and interesting elements that Dubrovnik has to offer. The Scanorama magazine has a monthly readership of two million readers and is distributed in airplanes of the SAS airline company.

These days, it is also very dynamic in Dubrovnik, as the city is being visited by many bloggers and freelance journalists. Currently, the journalist Judith Servin from Mexico is in the city, as well as the authors of the United States’ blog Just a pack, and others, whose publication is expected in the autumn.

 

PEAK OF HIGH SEASON IN DUBROVNIK

JULY MET EXPECTATIONS – AGAIN, RECORD-BREAKING RESULTS

Dubrovnik consistently achieves outstanding results in tourist traffic, once more achieving record-breaking tourist results for the month of July and the first seven months of this year.

According to the program eVisitor, which is used to register tourists, 179,642 tourists visited Dubrovnik in July which is 12% more than in July last year, and there were 688,138 overnight stays, or 14% more than in the same month in 2015. In July, most tourists came from the United Kingdom, France, USA, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Australia, Finland, and Belgium.

According to data available from the eVisitor system, which does not include nautical tourism, in the first seven months of 2016 Dubrovnik achieved record-breaking results in all types of accommodation.

There were 547,248 arrivals in Dubrovnik in the period from 1 January to 31 July 2016, for a total of 10% more arrivals than in the same period last year. During the first seven months of 2016, there were 1,824,702 overnight stays which is an increase of 10% compared to 2015.

The top-list of countries during the first seven months of 2016 from where tourists arriving in Dubrovnik came were: the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Finland, Norway, and Australia.

Since the beginning of the year to the end of July nautical tourism has seen 12,911 arrivals and 108,920 overnight stays, which is an increase of 2% compared to the same period last year.