Vacation hot spot may ban alcohol sales during key hours in sweeping new crackdown

The nightlife successful Croatia’s second-largest metropolis could soon look rather a spot antithetic for visitors connected abrogation getaways.

The metropolis of Split is proposing a prohibition connected the merchantability of intoxicant betwixt the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. 

Licensed venues specified arsenic bars, restaurants and nightclubs would stay exempt.

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Economy Minister Ante Šušnjar announced the program Wednesday, which would amend the country's Trade Act.

"This is chiefly for the wellness of our citizens, particularly children and young people, to sphere nationalist bid and support the situation and taste heritage," said Šušnjar.

An aerial presumption of old-town Split and the Saint Domnius Cathedral successful Croatia. The metropolis whitethorn prohibition the merchantability of intoxicant betwixt the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.  (iStock)

The curate besides said helium believes this solution provides a "better way" to negociate tourer destinations, according to section outlet HRT.

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The caller measures could instrumentality effect this summer.

Croatia is simply a premier European destination for yacht enactment tourism, with hubs successful Split, Dubrovnik and Makarska.

Licensed venues specified arsenic bars, restaurants and nightclubs volition stay exempt from the caller ban, officials said.  (iStock)

Split is besides known for its Ultra Music Festival and galore formation bars.

In 2024, 21.3 cardinal radical visited Croatia, according to authorities data. 

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Last year, different European metropolis implemented a prohibition successful an effort to curb tipsy tourists.

Prague, the superior metropolis of the Czech Republic, has enforced a prohibition connected organized nighttime pub crawls, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

In 2024, immoderate 21.3 cardinal radical visited Croatia successful southeastern Europe. (iStock)

The fashionable enactment of circuit groups hopping from bar to bar has caused a disturbance among the city’s assembly board, with complaints of sound and information concerns coming in.

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"We don’t privation to support [the] inexpensive alco-tourism that’s unluckily inactive rather communal successful Prague," Adam Zabranský, a subordinate of the city’s assembly who drafted the proposal, told The Associated Press.

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The prohibition applies to the hours betwixt 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., with fines of up to 100,000 koruna (roughly $4,300) handed retired to organizers of the crawls.