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Meet in Southeast Europe Southeast Europe Meeting Guide 2012 MEET IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE Visit www.meetinsee.com where more than 200 meeting providers are presented. 2011 www.meetinsee.com »Meet in Southeast Europe« directory is a direct reflection of www.meetinsee.com venue finder. The venue finder presents the most comprehensive on-line search engine of meeting providers from Southeast Europe. The current edition of the directory mirrors the number of entries to the www.meetinsee.com as of January 2012. The number of online entries is increasing with each day. Publishing digital edition of the Meet in SEE directory therefore makes possible to constantly update and expand the list of congress and incentive providers from Southeast Europe. If you are meeting actor from SE Europe, you are welcome to submit your entry at www.meetinsee.com . If you are a meeting planner searching for a venue, hotel, PCO, DMC or event agency from the region of Southeast Europe, we invite you to find your partner using your criteria at the www. meetinsee.com online venue finder. Information in this directory can be found on line at www.meetinsee.com. The most comprehensive internet search engine for meeting facilities and providers of Southeast Europe. COLOPHON: Publisher, Production & Marketing: Gormice d.o.o., Štihova 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana, T: +386 1 430 51 03, F: +386 1 430 51 04, E: [email protected], www.meetinsee.com, ZZZJRPLFHHX(GLWRULQ&KLHI*RUD]GĜDG$VVLVWDQWWRWKH(GLWRULQ&KHDI-DQ.ODYRUD 'HVLJQ.DWDULQD.OHPHQ.RYDĝLĝ,VVXHGDWH1RYHPEHU For the content reproduction it is required to obtain written editorial consignment. CONTENTS Southeast Europe Meeting Guide SLOVENIA page 6 ALBANIA page 72 CROATIA page 102 MONTENEGRO M page142 AUSTRIA page 78 GREECE page 132 & ITALY ROMANIA page 152 BOSNIA & page 88 REPUB LIC page 136 HERZEGOVINA OF MACEDONIA SERBIA page 160 BULGARIA page 94 3 COLOURS, SOUNDS AND FRAGRANCES OF THE MEETINGS INDUSTRY IN SLOVENIA AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE MICE can be tough, market conditions are demanding, traditional convention and incentive destinations don’t like to share their profit and their business. Yet still – the organizers and clients wish for something new. They would like – for the same or lower price – to see the yet unseen places, taste un-tasted foods, unknown wines, hear unintelligible languages and experience undiscovered experiences. Luckily, Central and South-East Europe offers this and much more. SE Europe is a region at the crossroads of Europe. This are countries history bestowed with many experience, VRPHELWWHUVRPHMR\IXO$IWHUWKHSROLWLFDOFDUGVZHUH shuffled some twenty years ago, these countries had to and wanted to create a new image in their international relations, restructure their national economies and open up to the world, to foreign investments and foreign knowledge. Today, most of this work is done. Foreign knowledge is still streaming into SE Europe, but it is about time this region offers the best it has to the meetings industry market. Not just (new or renovated) hotels and other infrastructure, which is no longer missing. SE Europe can try to “cheat” or look for shortcuts in its development. We can learn from the experience of Slovenia, which prove good infrastructure and fair prices aren’t always enough to attract the world market. Far from it. This is why the data on convention facilities is usually accompanied by pictures of breathtaking natural beauty, culinary secrets, cultural gems, tied to the languages, religions, scripts, which can be summed up in just four For each important event in South-East Europe – be it words: extremely rich cultural heritage. a birth, a wedding, a holiday...people would eat, drink, The region certainly needed influences. They were easiest to dance to different rhythms and rejoice. Each congress or find in our northern neighbours, which mostly influenced the incentive meeting in Central and SE Europe repeats this countries they were closest to. Luckily, regions like Furlanija ritual and becomes a modern holiday. Europe is thrilled to -XOLMVNDNUDMLQD )ULXOL²9HQH]LD*LXOLD .RURŒND &DULQWKLD welcome a new region of congress and business tourism DQG$XVWULDQőWDMHUVND 6W\ULD DUHQHDUE\ with all its colours, sounds and fragrances. Since Slovenia, the most northern part of SE Europe and The participants and critics of the international meetings at the same time a part of Central Europe – depending on industry have expressed childlike joy over the entry of a the context – was luckily not a part of the political conflict new, colourful, fragrant region to the market. Working in during the nineties; it developed its economy much faster 4 than the other states. Its development was pretty swift than a dozen are spoken, so nobody gets upset if the “lingua since it made up for 60 percent of the markets it lost in SE franca” at meetings and after them is English. markets, with markets in the West in just two years. The Oh, is there anything easier than an evening at one of the economic development enabled the formation of new fancier (zen, fusion, or whatever’s modern) restaurants in knowledge, which the state, celebrating its 20th birthday in Sarajevo, Sofia or Podogrica, to relax with a glass of mojito, 2011, or better yet the experts from the meetings industry followed by salmon and asparagus dressed in prosciutto, are now investing to the South and East. then wake up to a tall cup of latte macchiato? The region The region has been aware of the three P’s since the as any other is following the rules of globalisation. Yet, it’s beginning, not only as a public-private partnership, but as aware of the importance and the beauty of local traditions a kind of a new mantra: people, planet, profit. This is why and cultural patterns, which are an echo of the gifts of protecting the cultural heritage and sharing it with partners nature. has long been a part of a rounded tourist offer. The goal The region is incredibly rich since its northern area begins at of the ever growing meetings industry in sunny SE Europe WKH(DVWHUQHQGRIWKH$OSVVORZO\GURSSLQJLQWRRQHRIWKH is not mass tourism, but building a well rounded offer, largest flat lands in Europe – the Pannonia plain. To make developed with nature, local culture, social responsibility the geography a bit more interesting, the plain soon rises and cooperation with existing and potential business into the Carpathians. The western borders of SE Europe are partners in mind. ZDUPVKRUHVRIWKH$GULDWLF Its waves then hit the Dinarides, Even though the region offers numerous pleasant secrets, after that the landscape varies across the central Balkan waiting to be discovered, the foundations of economic peninsula. 7KH.DUVWZRUOGWXUQVLQWRWKHGDQFHRIQXPHURXV cooperation are clear: They are set by the European Union. river valleys, lake basins and in between fields, which used There is no use wasting breath on politics. This public to and still grow cotton, tobacco and in Bulgaria – hectares activity, we sadly cannot do without, has seeded discord of fragrant Roses. This region has always been abundant and disagreement into this region far too often. That’s why with fruits, vegetables and wood, which it never gave away we try to avoid it. for free. People had to work hard for their harvest through So we focus on sounds, colours and fragrances the centuries, which remains in their blood until today. surrounding the infrastructure of an emerging meetings Today, this people are – business partners. They enter the industry in SE Europe, which are distinctive, multilayer, European market of business, congress tourism with a lot pleasant, unusual. We cannot put it all in the same pot and of zeal and a desire to work and learn. They know what speak of a culture of the region – we are faced with a rich becoming a destination means for a place, so they eagerly cultural mosaic, undoubtedly the riches on the continent. cooperate in the business process. The market needs to This isn’t unusual. The region has developed its culture recognize their effort and the rewords will be mutual. through the centuries. Despite the predominant Slavic Welcome to South-East Europe! culture we can enjoy dishes shaped by the centuries of LQIOXHQFHRI2WWRPDQ$OS3DQQRQLDQ0HGLWHUUDQHDQ 5RN.ODQĝQLN cuisine; poetry containing stories of hill-folk or metropolis WULEHV$FWXDOO\WHQVPDOOHURIWHQRYHUORRNHGQDWLRQV each adding their treasure to the treasure chest. Once, rigid religious rules, today an opportunity for celebration discovering unknown colours, fragrances, sounds, dances. There is no predominant language in the region, since more 5 COLOURS, SOUNDS AND FRAGRANCES OF SLOVENIA Slovenia is one of the smaller countries of SE Europe and LVDORQJZLWK)ULXOLDQG$XVWULDD´PHPEHUµRI&HQWUDO (XURSH,W·VDQ$OSLQHFRXQWU\ZLWK´DGGHGYDOXHµVLQFH a third of the country is under the influence of the Mediterranean and flows into the Pannonia plane in the North-East. Each season paints Slovenia with an infinite palette... Each place is proud of its colours, be they a rich autumn yellow, gold, to brown and red, winter white with veins in the form of rivers and blue spots of ODNHVJODFLDORUDUWLILFLDO$FRORXU Slovenia adopted as its own is green: 60% of the country is covered by forests, which places it on the second place in Europe. Slovenians speak Slovenian, which is the foundation of their culture and an historic survival – the nation consists of only a litter over two million of souls. Slovenian doesn’t have a typical Slavic melody. Through the centuries the melody as well as the vocabulary and grammar were influenced by German, and through religion – Latin. It’s marked by a rarity in European linguistics: dual. This is known in PRGHUQ$UDEOLPLWHGO\LQ+HEUHZ,Q6ORYHQLD it survived through Old Church Slavic from Proto- Indo-European language and is truly an exception in Europe. Dual is good for singing as well.
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