Original stories, interviews, meetologues, hotel evaluations and fresh news from around the globe published daily have firmly positioned Kongres Magazine in the very top of specialized media by reach. In January the editorial board summed up your feedback and compiled 20 of the most read articles.

Meeting Star Award 2016: Top Resort Meeting Hotels
Based on 133 hidden guests’ ratings, which have been published in the Kongres Magazine, we have selected the winners of the MEETING STAR AWARD 2016.

Meeting Star Award 2016: Top 10 City Meeting Hotels 2016
Based on 133 hidden guests’ ratings, which have been published in the Kongres Magazine, we have selected the winners of the MEETING STAR AWARD 2016.

Meeting Star Award 2016: Top 10 Spa Meeting Hotels
Based on 133 hidden guests’ ratings, which have been published in the Kongres Magazine, we have selected the winners of the MEETING STAR AWARD 2016.

Top 10 National Meeting Destinations
The Editorial Board of Kongres Magazine has completed the evaluation process of meeting destinations, which has been carried out continuously since 2010. With travelogues we literally cross the boundaries of space and time and absorb specific knowledge about meeting destinations. Each travelogue is an experiment of an objective interpretation of the current situation through the eyes of our reporters.

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Top 10 Small Tourist Destinations
Destination evaluations are based on thorough analyses of different criteria. They have developed from interviews and surveys with over 1,200 event organisers from across Europe, work that showed us that congress destinations are comparable and helped us to form a unique model of evaluation. A mixture of factors that we have been evaluating since 2010 can affect the entire meeting experience for both congress organisers and participants.

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Top 10 Regional Meeting Destinations
With different destinations we evaluate over 70 criteria that are described in detail below. They form the final destination grade or the ‘MEETINGS EXPERIENCE INDEX’, as we like to call it. The best destinations are annually recognised on the main stage of the Conventa Trade Show.

Meeting Star Award 2016: Top 10 Boutique Meeting Hotels
Based on 133 hidden guests’ ratings, which have been published in the Kongres Magazine, we have selected the winners of the MEETING STAR AWARD 2016.

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“Our task is to make the experience unique”
Airline travel has been considered something special for decades and will continue to have this effect on passengers. The fascination of air travel is also something that keeps our own staff excited. I think we can all very much relate to this. Air travel does not only offer travellers a great opportunity to reach far destinations in a relatively short time, but it also offers a unique experience.

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Top 10 Regional Meeting Destinations To Watch In 2017
In the shadows of the most familiar destinations of the region, which have already firmly established themselves on the international market, we predict some of the new destinations that are just sprouting onto the well-tended congress lawn but that we think will make a name for themselves.

New Nissan Micra takes the roads of Dubrovnik
The European promotion of the new Nissan Micra will be held from January till March 2017 in Dubrovnik. More than 7000 guests, 500 top European journalists, fleet buyers, European concessionaires and their sales staff will be able to test drive the vehicle and experience the city of Dubrovnik.

Creative use of space in Hotel Cubo, Ljubljana
Experience with open formats of conference facilities were used in the recent renovation of their two conference rooms. The results are two modern connected halls renovated in Cubo style. The smaller is decorated in a classic management board style and the bigger is minimalistic decorated with furniture that organizers can re-organize for their needs and format.

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Croatian capital with a ski slope in the centre of town
Besides amazing Adriatic Sea, Croatia also offers a magnificent surrounding for all ski lovers in the first week of January. The organisers of the 11th Snow Queen ski race have prepared a 165-metre-long ski slope for FIS Alpine Ski World Cup winners race on Wednesday, 5th January, in the Zagreb city centre.

World’s best female chef comes from Slovenia
Ana Roš, from House Franko in Kobarid, Slovenia, has been acknowledged as the World’s best female chef, stepping into the culinary hall of fame among world known chefs as Dominique Crenn, Hélène Darroze and Anne-Sophie Pic. She will receive an award on 5th of April in Melbourne Australia.

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“I would like to see tighter cooperation within Southeast Europe”
Danica Banjevic has been the Director of the Montenegro Convention Bureau since 2008 and is the deputy director of the Montenegro National Tourism Organisation. She is in charge of planning, implementation and the coordination of marketing and PR activities for Montenegro.

Conventa 2017 – Nine Years Of Results
Every year, Conventa hosts more than 150 international hosted buyers coming to Ljubljana mainly from European countries. Last year a new record was broken when hosted buyers from 33 countries attended the show. In 2017, 10 percent of hosted buyers are coming from overseas destinations.

Renovation of Hotel Golf, Bled
The Bled Hotel Golf has started the renovation of hotel rooms and lobby, which will greatly change the character of the legendary Bled congress hotel. They will renovate hotel rooms, reception, hotel lobby and add a series of authentic details.

7 Teambuilding Trends For 2017
In the past year, ETC Adriatic has been carefully watching the responses of participants in domestic and foreign markets. They have found the 7 hot teambuilding topics for this year.

The Relationship between Incentives and Motivation
Kongres magazine readers are either working in the industry or are clients of this industry and may intuitively know why incentive travel works. In this article we will explore the “whys” of incentive travel: why incentive travel works for loyalty and engagement, and how it can be used as a tool to foster behavior change.

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Cankarjev Dom: Bound to quality
In Slovenia, the only member of IAPCO is the CD Congress Centre, which is the largest congress organizer in Slovenia. PCO agency of the CD can be compared to the largest congress organizers in the world. About their experience speaks also the fact that they realized more than 200 events and in scope of those also more than 1,000 smaller events per year. The majority of them in their own venue, the CD Congress Centre.

Saša Zor: “Slovenia is on the way to the first congress league”
Slovenia is still considered a new destination on the world congress map, which is at the same time our strength and weakness. An attractive location in the heart of Europe, an extremely rich and diverse offer in a small space, a good balance between quality and price and friendliness of the people are just some of the reasons why it attracts more and more international meeting planners.

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