The HDZ finance committee's vice president Hrvojka Bacic, MP and Mayor of Vodice Branka Juricev-Martincev and the party's tourism committee and Mayor of Mali Losinj Gari Cappelli commented on the implementation and introduction of fiscal cash registers in hospitality facilities.

"HDZ supports the introduction of financial discipline in all spheres of social life including taxation policies but punitive measures that are being applied are questionable. These must be relevant to the offence. It is not the same to have a surplus of ten kuna found in the cash register or a tax debt of hundreds of thousands of kuna", Bacic said.

She recalled that the law prescribed several categories of punishment and that at the height of the tourism season the most repressive measures, shutting down hotels and cafe bars, should avoided. This is damaging to Croatia's reputation and leads to less money coming into the state budget, she said. "There must be mechanisms that monitor and regulate business operations and disclose irregularities of all commercial subjects. If not, then new laws need to be created", Bacic said.

Juricev-Martincev considers that it is impermissible that guests who have paid for their stay are thrown out of a hotel into 40 degree weather which just creates a negative image for tourism. "That guest and that tourism agency will never come to Croatia again", she said, wondering whether anyone cares that the people employed in these facilities have been left without a job.

Commenting that it was not a good idea for the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) to be dealing with personnel matters in the midst of the season, Cappelli warned that the matter of visas for Russian tourists still has not been resolved and that this year 50% fewer Russian tourists had come to Croatia.