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Opportunities for upgrading congress and Slovenian tourism are numerous

INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHOR:
Dejan Križaj, MSc, is a researcher and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism Studies Portorož – Turistica, University of Primorska. His research centres on the specifics of innovation in tourism and their encouragements. He has been running the Innovations Corner c ...
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The point and background of team building

INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHOR:
Roman Vodeb, a double MSc (Kinesiology and Sociology of Culture), offered some new interpretations in occupational psychology many years ago, using Freudian psychoanalysis.
By now he has covered the concepts of mobbing, burnout, workaholism, stress economy and non self-cons ...
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It’s not what we have, but what we can share

I often find myself in situations where I fervently defend my belief, that the economic crisis period we are faced with, has brought us down to earth and  in a positive way. The recession, this hated, frequently used, sinister word, is losing it’sgrip and doesn’t scare today as much as it d ...
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What do we need for a congress breakthrough in the region of Southeast Europe?

PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHOR:
Tomislav Dumančić has 10 years of experience in the sales and marketing field in Croatian tourism. For the past 5 years he has been Valamar's Sales and Marketing Director for the Dubrovnik destination. From 2009 he has also taken over the additional duty of the MICE and ...
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Column, No. 2/2010 (IV.): When the pharmaceutical industry catches a cold, the meetings industry gets pneumonia.

(CONVENTION) TOURISM AS PART OF THE SOLUTION TO THE CRISIS

Is tourism in a crisis? Especially the aristocratic sector of the meetings and incentive industry? The answer is plain and simple: No. International and, with it, subalpine tourism are bravely defying the depression that has overcome a wide range of economic branches, especially the construction and ...
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Kongresna Slovenija

outhern destinations are always attractive. Sun and sea is always a hit. Not only for the leisure but also for meetings and events. Eastern European countries were and are of interest for many years. South-East Europe has both of these attributes.

In the region of South-East Europe you will find ten ...
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Exorcism

It has been about a year now since destination managers have been turning the global economic crisis in our hands like a Rubik's Cube. Even better: like hot chestnuts. Last October, we all agreed that every crisis can also be an opportunity, but we had no real answers on how to materialise those opp ...
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What next for destination marketing?

Budget cutbacks and reduced meetings staffs, As the very early stages of the global economic recovery are appearing (well, in the USA, France and Germany), business managers and their sales and marketing colleagues are, or if not, should be, considering how marketing activities can be given fresh im ...
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How to become a Master?

Once, a long, long time ago, the work from an individual field was entrusted into the hands of a person who was skilled in this line of work and who was recognised by his surroundings as a master. The process of obtaining this status was something special. Today, it no longer has the appropriate mea ...
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Can Site Selection Service Providers Really Make A Difference?

Budget cutbacks and reduced meetings staffs, the desire to have more transparency in meetings procurement, the lack of pricing discipline in the marketplace and concerns over the perception of meetings are all driving organisations to think about outsourced site selection. If ever there was a time t ...
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