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Taste Dalmatia

Taste Dalmatia, luxury brand of family-owned Shuttle DMC, is a licensed specialist for tailor made travel with special accent on untapped culinary and wine heritage of Croatia. We are proud of almost 20 years of experience providing exceptional experiences, worldwide network of collaborators and personal network of local partners such as guides, winemakers, chefs.

Taste Dalmatia can provide immersible, authentic and luxury explorations of Croatia. Unique, local, personalized and hands on experiences are at the core of our brand.

Taste Dalmatia offers 24h on site support to all clients and partners and makes sure any possible request or situation you may have will be taken care of by its expert team.

Taste Dalmatia

TEAM

Taste Dalmatia TEAM

Dragan Kostadinovic
Once a military helicopter pilot with a hedonistic heart, 20 years ago Dragan decided to put together his organizational skills with indulgence of life and created Taste Dalmatia with mindset of providing exceptional experiences for those who are seeking different kind of exploration of Croatia.
Dragan KostadinovicOwner and Founder
Neno Basic Kostadinovic
Involved in every aspect of Tourism agency while working during studying, from developing new products and tours to marketing and selling them to finally helping clients have the best experience possible Neno has transitioned in the last 20 years from starter jobs to day to day running of thriving family business.
Neno Basic KostadinovicCEO
Tena Vukusic
MA of political science by profession, storyteller by vocation. Project consultant and communicator with over ten years of experience in strategic planning, journalism, media relations, and content creation. Now building a new path in the travel industry and destination management and making unforgettable story for every client.
Tena VukusicOperations Manager
Tanja Rancic
History buff with master’s degree to back it up, in love in deep cultural and historical heritage of Croatia with experience of designing and organizing explorations of Croatia with different special interests at their core, Tanja will make sure your ideas and wishes are made true.
Tanja RancicTourism & Hospitality Management
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Services

Tours

Our signature tours offer wide range of experiences designed to satisfy all your needs of discovering Croatia.

Tailor made travel

Contact us for your private, tailor made designed experience of Croatia expertly crafted to suit your needs and wishes.

Event Management

Taste Dalmatia also provides event management in Croatia. We can leverage our wide range of contacts throughout leisure, entertainment, and tourism industry to provide you with exactly what you require, depending on your budget and you will not have to coordinate any of it!

Yacht charter and villa rental

Dalmatian coast with its 1000 islands is known throughout the world as a paradise for sailors. Explore by yacht combining culinary and wine delights with luxury cruise.  Looking for luxury seclusion to rest your mind and body? Trust us with your request and let us provide you with selection of villas from our portfolio for you to choose from.

Magazine and Cookbook

Featured in Odyssey magazine

The Dalmatian heritage cookbook

*contact us for full version

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Brochures

Taste Dalmatia brochure

Taste Dalmatia Day Options 2021.

Dalmatia Heritage Tour itineraries

Dalmatia Heritage Day Options 2021.

Taste Dalmatia

Taste Dalmatia, luxury brand of family-owned Shuttle DMC, is a licensed specialist for tailor made travel with special accent on untapped culinary and wine heritage of Croatia. We are proud of almost 20 years of experience providing exceptional experiences, worldwide network of collaborators and personal network of local partners such as guides, winemakers, chefs.

Taste Dalmatia can provide immersible, authentic and luxury explorations of Croatia. Unique, local, personalized and hands on experiences are at the core of our brand.

Taste Dalmatia offers 24h on site support to all clients and partners and makes sure any possible request or situation you may have will be taken care of by its expert team.

Taste Dalmatia TEAM

Dragan Kostadinovic
Once a military helicopter pilot with a hedonistic heart, 20 years ago Dragan decided to put together his organizational skills with indulgence of life and created Taste Dalmatia with mindset of providing exceptional experiences for those who are seeking different kind of exploration of Croatia.
Dragan KostadinovicOwner and Founder
Neno Basic Kostadinovic
Involved in every aspect of Tourism agency while working during studying, from developing new products and tours to marketing and selling them to finally helping clients have the best experience possible Neno has transitioned in the last 20 years from starter job to running of thriving family business.
Neno Basic KostadinovicCEO
Tena Vukusic
MA of political science by profession, storyteller by vocation. Project consultant and communicator with over ten years of experience in strategic planning, journalism, media relations, and content creation. Now building a new path in the travel industry and destination management and making unforgettable story for every client.
Tena VukusicOperations Manager
Tanja Rancic
History buff with master’s degree to back it up, in love in deep cultural and historical heritage of Croatia with experience of designing and organizing explorations of Croatia with different special interests at their core, Tanja will make sure your ideas and wishes are made true.
Tanja RancicTourism & Hospitality Management
Image

Services

Tours

Our signature tours offer wide range of experiences designed to satisfy all your needs of discovering Croatia.

Tailor made travel

Contact us for your private, tailor made designed experience of Croatia expertly crafted to suit your needs and wishes.

Event Management

Taste Dalmatia also provides event management in Croatia. We can leverage our wide range of contacts throughout leisure, entertainment, and tourism industry to provide you with exactly what you require, depending on your budget and you will not have to coordinate any of it!

Yacht charter and villa rental

Dalmatian coast with its 1000 islands is known throughout the world as a paradise for sailors. Explore by yacht combining culinary and wine delights with luxury cruise.  Looking for luxury seclusion to rest your mind and body? Trust us with your request and let us provide you with selection of villas from our portfolio for you to choose from.

Magazine and Cookbook

Image

Brochures

Featured in Odyssey magazine

The Dalmatian heritage cookbook

*contact us for full version

Taste Dalmatia brochure

Taste Dalmatia Day Options 2021.

Dalmatia Heritage Tour itineraries

Dalmatia Heritage Day Options 2021.

Sustainable Travel

Our mission is to provide high quality, unforgettable tailor made experiences to our clients that allow them to immerse themselves in rich cultural, culinary, and wine heritage of Croatia. Other side of that is making sure that we give back to community, support our local producers, help bring back life to villages long abandoned and preserve Croatian cultural, historical, and natural riches. By booking with Taste Dalmatia you can be a small part of bigger change towards sustainable tourism.


logo travelifeTravelife is the leading international sustainability certification in the travel sector and was established with the support of the European Commission and jointly managed by the Association of British Travel Agents and ECEAT-Projects, an NGO in Amsterdam.
Travelife provides tourism companies with realistic objectives and gives them tools and solutions to implement positive change within their businesses and promote sustainable development standards.
To obtain this status, Taste Dalmatia complied with over 100 criteria covering every aspect of the way we work, including all business management and tour operating practices.

OMNIS Project

omnis tasteShuttle d.o.o. is a partner of the project "OMNIS - Co-creation of Inclusive Sustainable Tourism Itineraries and Packages from Coastal to Inner Areas". This project is co-financed by the Interreg VI Italy-Croatia Programme 2021-2027 (cross-border cooperation programme). The overall objective of the project is to lay the foundations for fruitful cooperation between tourism stakeholders of coastal and inner areas of Italy and Croatia by creating and distributing inclusive sustainable digitalised tourism itineraries and connected packages for tourists that travel with pets focusing on those with guide dogs fostering sustainable economic development and social inclusion in local communities.

For agents

We are happy to work with travel agents on commission basis, and we can be very flexible in this regard. Travel agents work hard on behalf of the consumer. The role of a travel agent is to make a trip – whether for work or pleasure – a stress-free and memorable experience. Travel agents spend time not only booking tickets and searching for affordable prices, but also personalizing their services for individual clients. Let us to be your partners in Croatia….

Photo: Luka Esenko | HTZ