(ANSA) - ZAGREB, 14 AGO - After yesterday Italy ordered testing for those returning from Croatia, Croatian tour operators began to report cancellations of reservations and concern for Italians already on vacation along the Croatian Adriatic coastline.

"Yesterday we received many cancellations," Massimo Piutti, manager of a campsite in Istria, told the Croatian press. "We are receiving lots of phone calls from Italian tourists who complain about this decision, but continue to show interest in coming to Croatia," said Viviana Vukelic, director of the Milan-based Office of the Croatian National Tourist Board in Italy.

The head of civil protection in Istria, Dino Kozlovec, said he "is sorry about Italy's decision because it will make life very difficult for Italian tourists already in Croatia," as well as having negative repercussions on Croatian tourism.

According to official data, to date 46,000 thousand Italians are spending their holidays in Croatia, most of them, just over 30,000, in Istria and the Kvarner, in the north Adriatic, wherein at this time there are no new infections and the epidemiologic situation is under control, with a total of eight people in the last 24 hours, including a Czech tourist. The majority of the new positive cases, which yesterday had been 180 in the whole country, concern Dalmatia and Zagreb. (ANSA).