HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY
For a decade Kongres Magazine has been connecting the meetings industry of New Europe
Today it is celebrating its first landmark anniversary. What started out as a coincidence, but at the same time as the realisation of many years of planning, has come to be today’s product that you have in your hands, one that began in autumn 10 years ago and that has weathered on and even grown through the past six years of economic crisis in Europe.
A decade ago, in a company of determined enthusiasts, we created the magazine and all of its columns, a format that has stuck to this day. A few weeks after we presented our first issue to the public and most of our colleagues they all supported our feat with words to the effect that the magazine is everything they imagined it would be.
This round jubilee is therefore more than ample opportunity for me to thank everyone who has been in any way involved in making Kongres Magazine see the light of day: from the Slovenian Convention Bureau, which has always been helping us with our publishing; the magazine’s constant associates, especially our Andrej Juvan and Rob Cotter, who always ensure a quality product within tight deadlines; and the many readers who have taken on our magazine as their own and have supported us in a way that we always want give one hundred and ten percent to it.
Our 10 years in the making also reflects the development of the meetings industry in our region, as we have kept track of all the key events and the industry’s growth. Over the past decade and through our work we have become the regional niche communication agency, specialized in the meetings industry, to which we dedicate many original stories spiced up with creativity and a lot of out-of-the-box thinking.
With our help, the Conventa Trade Show has also developed into one of the biggest and most recognized trade shows of the regional meetings industry and a calendar highlight for the industry.
[pullquote]The range of both print and online editions of Kongres Magazine is more than impressive. In 10 years 54 issues of the Magazine have been published, 8 special editions with some 3,200 contributions that were read by more than 53,000 people. Are you with us?[/pullquote]
Alongside the daily news, we are proud of our in-depth expert articles that we know will definitely come in handy with your own work and give you the latest information on a range of different topics. The most popular of these have been the weekly supplements, meetologues, incentive guides and other key stories in which congress organisers are definitely finding something in it specifically for them.
Take the chance to leaf through the Kongres Magazine to see if you too think it is truly the right magazine for event organisers. We think you’ll be pretty pleased at what you see and what you read.
All of us at Kongres wish you much more reading pleasure with us in the future,
Gorazd Čad
Editor in Chief
