Croatia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture [Paperback]

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include: * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." —Sunday Times Travel

Irina Banis a PR agent and consultant specializing in Croatia’s hidden destinations, gastronomy, and wines. She has organized trips for journalists and photographers from such diverse publications asGEO,National Geographic,National Geographic Adventurer,Elle,Le Figaro Magazine, theFinancial Times, theGuardian,CondeNast Traveller, theIndependent,World Atlas of Wines, andScotland on Sunday. She has contributed toTime Out Visitor’s Guide to Croatia,Alistair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay in Croatia, and the French travel guidesPetit FutéandHébergement Insolite. Beside travel and tourism, she is interested in cross-cultural projects. In 2004, together with the Croatian Embassy in Brussels, she helpelq