TOP 10 UNUSUAL MEETING PLACES IN SEE

Gorazd Čad — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:28:55 +0000

TITO’S BLUE TRAIN Belgrade, Serbia You can organise your next event on the legendary blue train, which was carrying former President Tito in Yugoslavia. Relatively well preserved train is one of the incentive special features of Belgrade. ADRIATIC LIGHTHOUSES Adriatic Coast, Croatia For more Robinson-like business meetings and teambuilding can be taken take care […]

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1448 km of paths in the new cycling guide to the Heart of Slovenia

Gorazd Čad — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:00:41 +0000

Fans of cycling can, in the Heart of Slovenia, in an area in the heart of the country, choose between 32 new bicycle paths, which in the cycling guide is titled “With bicycles to the Heart of Slovenia” issued by the Centre for Development Litija. Bike paths are also connected with paths towards Dolenjska and […]

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South East Europe – A destination for the congress industry that cannot be reached?

Gorazd Čad — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:00:54 +0000

As the political awareness of the congress industry is gaining momentum throughout the world, there can be little debate that strategic investment in infrastructure development remains disjointed in many ways. The opportunity cost because of this lack of joined up thinking at a macro economic level by governments and national airlines can be striking. I […]

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Short CVB Interviews on Congress Subventions

Gorazd Čad — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:06:13 +0000

1: Do association or corporate representatives request subventions to organise a meeting in your destination? If so, what kind? 2: In what way do you support organisations if they choose your destination? Goran Pavlović, Head of Opatija Convention & Incentive Bureau 1: It is mainly associations, and rarely corporate, that organise meetings in Opatija […]

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TOP 10 SEE AVIO MEETINGS DESTINATION

Gorazd Čad — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:51:11 +0000

Based on data from ACI Europe, we analysed the data for some of the major meeting destinations in the region, according to the number of passengers. We considered destinations that have conference facilities and developed meeting infrastructure and are also listed on the ICCA scale of meeting destinations for meetings of associations. We left out […]

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Which is more popular to attract delegates – science or destination?

Gorazd Čad — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:34:59 +0000

“In a recent survey of over 4000 delegates”, revealed Christian Mutschlechner, of the Vienna Convention Bureau, “when asked what reasons made them attend a conference, the ‘destination’ did not feature in the top 10 list of answers: science, CME, networking all featured strongly. Therefore the future for attracting healthcare events to a destination is primarily […]

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The Cost of Knowledge

Natalija Bah Čad — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:53:05 +0000

About 350 years ago, Henry Oldenburg thought of a new business idea – academic publishing. He was the secretary of the Royal Society, and negotiated the right to keep any profits he made publishing the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the first publication devoted exclusively to science. Unfortunately for Oldenburg, the journal was not […]

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Split

Natalija Bah Čad — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:43:06 +0000

“Mediteranski brevijar” by Zagreb author and scholar Predrag Matvejević is an award winning work I recommend to all lovers of the Mediterranean, the cradle of civilizations. It’s a book full of folksy anecdotes, smells, turbulent history, architecture, natural phenomena and tradition. Everything where I unintentionally find myself every time I think of Split, a city […]

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International Profile of Slovenian Wines

Natalija Bah Čad — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:09:39 +0000

Dušan Brejc has been in the wine business for three decades. After graduating at the Biotechnical Faculty and finishing his oenology specialisation in France he worked as an oenologist for ten years. Over the next decade he focused on marketing his produce and for the last ten years he has been managing the Wine Society […]

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Social media and destination marketing – hand in hand to success

Natalija Bah Čad — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:26:19 +0000

Through social media we address a specific person rather than a group Today we can’t even imagine how some ten years ago we lived a perfectly normal life without a cell phone. And without constant (online) contact to all our friends and acquaintances. Not so long ago we received web content in a totally different […]

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How big is your footprint?

Natalija Bah Čad — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:05 +0000

Tourism, particularly congress tourism, contributes a relatively high share of greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, efforts of congress event providers to reduce environmental impact are nothing new. However, detailed analyses of carbon footprints of specific events are still rather rare. In accordance with our efforts to reduce environmental impact and protect unspoilt nature as one of […]

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Slovenia, Inner-Karst Region

Natalija Bah Čad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:37:59 +0000

Only half an hour drive from Ljubljana towards the sea or in the opposite direction, you will stumble upon the Karst region called Green Karst with the most recognizable and visited natural attraction – the Postojna Cave. The important strategic position of the region has left some extraordinary historic monuments, now used for education, exploration […]

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