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meetings… A very good overview of ideas has been collected and published last autumn in a brochure named “Ljubljana Tips for Incentives” – a joint project of the Kongres Magazine and the Ljubljana Tourist Board/Convention Bureau. This publicationcan be downloaded from the www.visitljubljana.si website, which contains a dedicated section for Meeting Planners. The publication showcases an array of individual products that can be combined to create dynamic and diverse incentive programmes. From a total of 68 tips, about half focus on the capital; a number of “neutral” tips can be placed in several possible locations, while 23 suggest exciting outings out of greater Ljubljana – towards the Alps, the Karst and Coast, as well as other regions. Useful contacts Meeting planners who might consider Slovenia as a new destination are welcome to contact two convention bureaus – the national one, and the one acting for the capital city. The Slovenian Convention Bureau (www.slovenia-convention.com), whose strategic partner is the Slovenian Tourist Board, acts as a professional intermediary between meeting planners and suppliers, assisting organisers to select the most appropriate solution for their event. Its membership, currently at 67 companies, encompasses vast majority of venues and service providers in the country (DMCs, PCOs, event management companies…), from all the categories of the conference supply.
The Ljubljana Tourist Board’s Convention Bureau is the specialist contact (www.visitljubljana.si) for those primarily interested to hold meetings in the capital city. Both bureaus work in good synergy, which is the only way to maximise the efforts to raise the profile of Slovenia on the European meetings map. With this aim, an interesting business event – the Conventa Show, has been launched in January 2009, with the next appointment on 21 and 22 January 2010. Conventa was organized by the Slovenian Convention Bureau in collaboration with some key partners in the country and three distinguished international trade associations. Slovenia took the initiative to bring together providers of meetings and incentive travel services from the entire Southeast European region and showcase them to the international market. This business event can be regarded as an excellent opportunity to get initially acquainted with the meeting offerings of this wider region, and to follow relevant news, please refer to the website www.conventa.info