Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park welcomes back Chinese tourists: director

PLITVICE LAKES NATIONAL PARK, Croatia, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- "We warmly welcome our visitors from China and are looking forward to their return," Tomislav Kovacevic, director of Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park, told Xinhua in an interview on Monday.

Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Croatia welcomed 300,000 and the park around 50,000 Chinese tourists per year. However, during the pandemic years the number of visitors to the park dropped to around 1,000 per annum. Most of them arrived from Europe.