About us

Tourist board of City of Hvar (information office)

Trg sv. Stjepana b/b
tel/fax: + 385 (021) 741 059, (021) 742 977
e-mail: tzg-hvar@st.t-com.hr & info@tzhvar.hr

President: Pjerino Bebić
Director: Tanja Miličić
Marketing: Georges Buj
Employees: Magda Mladina, Veronika Zaninović

In 1868, a group of reputed Hvar's residents, led by the bishop Juraj Dubković, founded a professional tourist association by the name of "The Hygienic Association Hvar", which had as it goals promoting and development of tourist services in the city. This association was a predecessor of the Tourist board of City of Hvar.

This above mentioned year, is taken as a very beginning of organised tourism activity, not only in Hvar, but, according to the historians, it is a turning point in development of the modern European tourism, as this was the year when tourist services in the context of public care, support and supervising are mentioned for the first time. This was the only association of that kind in Europe at the time.