NEWS FLASH
Low cost carrier easyJet will extend its seasonal summer service between London Gatwick and Dubrovnik into November. The airline will maintain flights between the two twice per week throughout penultimate month of the year, on Mondays and Fridays, until December 1, after which the service will be suspended until March 4, 2024 when it will be restored, some twenty days ahead than usual. The development comes after British Airways decided to end its limited winter operations between London Gatwick and Dubrovnik this year.
Good news. It will make up for the loss of BA.
ReplyDeleteNot really. British Airways flew December to January and then March to early November. EasyJet will miss the Christmas period
DeleteWell, there's no demand. Easyjet until December is still better than nothing
DeleteIf only locals embraced winter tourism, alas they are on a break between September and June.
ReplyDeleteWe can't embrace winter tourism when we have shitty weather. No matter what we do tourists won't come in winter. Would you spend your holidays somewhere where it's either raining heavily all the time or freezing wind is blowing so hard that you basically can't even walk normally?
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DeleteHave you ever been to Opatija in winter? A lot of rain and often strong wind, but quite a few hotels are open, filled mainly with pensioners. A colleague who has a local agency in Austria says that she would be happy to take her guests to Dubrovnik in winter, but there is nothing open there, so she offers them Kotor in winter, they only stop in Dubrovnik in passing by.
DeleteIt is not only retirees who would go to Dalmatia in winter, the structure of guests has changed a lot in the Mediterranean in the last ten years. It is true that the majority of tourists still go to classic destinations on classic periods, but there are more and more, especially wealthier tourists, who avoid crowds in the season and visit typically summer destinations in winter, only if they are offered a suitable tourist product. And rain and wind don't bother them too much. It is true that these are not mass tourists. And tourist workers and the local population in Dubrovnik bet mainly on them.
DeleteProblem is that there is no initiative from local people to change things. That obvious when someone comes from other party of country or world and in 2-3 years has respective business in tourism while local people think about rain and wind
DeleteDubrovnik is not like Athens or Barcelona. The winters are not mild, the bura can be extremely strong and the airport is often closed as a result
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Delete@09:36 yes people talk nonsense because they never experienced it. I have spent some 30+ full winters in Dubrovnik, and it's really not a nice place to be. People say Wienna or London are also rainy and still a lot of people visit them during winter. If they experienced Dubrovnik rain they wouldn't make such comparisons. London/Wienna and places like that receive less half the amount of rain that Dubrovnik receives in winter. In London/Vienna etc you can walk around normally when it rains, in Dubrovnik you can't even leave your house, you get soaked just by going outside to throw away the garbage!
Delete@12:40, I live too, for 40 years already, it is definitely not such a nice place to spend your winter holidays.
DeleteBut for me that our fault, destination like Dubrovnik does not offer anything else except sun and sea
DeleteWorking Nomads all over the continent from the States and Asia...up 60% year on year....all looking for accomodation... Switch-on Croatia!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is somehow strange, funny problem in Dubrovnik during winter. Hotels are closed because there are no enough flights to bring tourists and there are no flights because airline companies are stating that most of hotels are closed.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, there is a ton of much nicer destinations to be during winter, tourists are not stupid, they are aware of that. Today all it takes is 5 min to check out the info about any destination, and there is too many discouraging things about Dubrovnik in winter.
DeleteIf we had nice weather throughout the year like Andalusia we would work all year. Unfortunately we don't so people manage..
ReplyDeleteGreeting from a Dubrovnik local ;)
People visit all sorts of places during the winter. Anon 8:29 mentioned digital nomads that work and need good (digital) infrastructure, looking for places like Dubrovnik is. Prepare a nice interesting product and people will come. If you prefer not to and you are happy with mass tourism during summer, that's fine, but don’t blame the weather.
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