Promotion of Croatian tourism in U.S.A.

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The representation of the Croatian National Tourist Board held a press conference in New York's Harvard club on 5th February 2009.The press conference was attended by 32 journalists from leading U.S. business and tourist publications such as Travel Trade Magazine,Jax Fax,Opera News,Travel World News,Art News Magazine,Wall Street Journal and many others.The aim of this press conference was to show tourist potential of Croatia,promoting Croatia as cultural destination,and promoting lesser known regions of Croatia such as continental Croatia.Journalists had numerous questions for our tourist officials and also showed great interest in the tourist regions of Croatia and for cultural events in the area of Zadar,Nin,Split,Šibenik and Dubrovnik.There was a great interest for continental Croatia as well for gastronomic and wine offer in Croatia.In addition,there were business workshop organized at the same day,which was attended by a large number of American travel agencies.The event was visited by Bob Whitley,a president of USTOA(American Association of Travel Agencies)who was also interested in latest news regarding Croatian tourist offer.