CROATIA | TATJANA JOSIPOVIĆ 95 Figure 3: Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in EU Member States3 In the same year, the Adriatic coast in Croatia4 ranked second in the Top 20 EU tourism destinations, and the share of non-residents nights in the total number of nights amounted to 93.5%. Concerning the average occupancy rate of bed places in hotels, Croatia ranked fourth, after Cyprus, Malta and Spain, with 60% of the net occupancy rate. 3 Graph retrieved from Eurostat news release 18/2020-24 January 2020, First estimates of tourism in the EU in 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10371904/4-24012020-APEN.pdf/225398de-fa6a-4ed9-6052-9167d39f2ea2, accessed on 9 March 2021. 4 Of the total number of nights spent in Croatia, as many as 92.5% were spent in the Adriatic coast region; particularly popular were the rural areas, with as many as 63.4%. Eurostat: Tourism statistics – annual results for the accommodation sector, October 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisticsexplained/pdfscache/37341.pdf, pp. 10-11, accessed on 9 March 2021.
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