Croatia Forum

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The company Istraturist from Umag, the most northern Adriatic tourist centre, has begun with investments into the further raising of quality of tourist products and services. The announced investments are worth about 12, 5 million Euros, of which the majority will be invested into the raising of the quality of camps. Namely, during the last five years Istraturist has invested about 76 million Euros into the renovation of accommodation capacities and introduction of new content. This year it is the turn of auto-camps, into whose improvement will be invested about eight million Euros. In this way the largest Istraturist camp Ladin gaj will become Camping park Umag with a four star rating, while the camps Finida, Stella Maris, Pineta and Kanegra will have three star standards. All five camps together have a capacity of 9000 places which makes up nearly half the capacity of Istraturist. Of the announced eight million Euros, about five and a half million will be invested into the Camping Park Umag in which, other than the overall raising of quality of the camp offer, a large amount will also be invested into landscaping the environment – the construction of a so called fun-educational park Istria which will on about 13.000 square metres, in the shape of map of Istria, present authentic Istrian sites and will be witness to the thousand year coexistence with nature. Namely, guests will be introduced to kažune (old Istrian stone houses), vineyards, olive groves, orchards, they will see the red and grey Istrian soil….and will be able to learn about the specific Mediterranean flora through educational courses. There will also be investments into the remaining four camps in which, along with improving the conditions in the camp, special attention will also be given to horticultural landscaping and in increasing animation and children’s activities, because all camps of the Umag company operate under the motto Family friendly camps and are adapted to offer ideal family holidays. As far as the technical part of the investment, it will also be necessary to carry out parcelisation because of new installation for mobile homes, installation of electricity, water, satellite and TV connections, raising the standards of sanitary facilities, fixing up the beach and construction of additional facilities like a belvedere and pirate ship.

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