Meet up: SMART TOURISM 5.0

2nd virtual meet up on tourism in the region – tourism professionals on after-corona tourism

Wednesday,

June 17th

10:00-14:00

Prominent tourism event and fair organizers from Croatia gathered experts from home and abroad, to exchange information and experiences on doing business during and after corona-crisis as well as to look after new market opportunities.

WATCH THE VIDEO FROM THE 1st MEET UP

The first conference on year-round tourism that gathers prominent local and regional tourism experts, and a wide range of tourism professionals...

The conference always brings fresh ideas, successful experiences and expert discussions of tourism leaders from the region and Europe (Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and Montenegro) about all-seasons tourism.

The conference updates the development of destinations and communities, creating new products that do not depend only on sun & beach, telling authentic stories, and smart and creative recycling of local specifics into a new quality and experience tailored to modern tourists, which allows to extend the season on the coast and start the development of continental destinations.

New Europe exhibition for meetings, events & incentive travel...

Conventa is the first and largest regional business tourism exchange, which is held every year in Ljubljana. In one place, it presents the congress offer of more than 15 countries of "New Europe" to invited organizers of events, congresses and incentive trips from Europe and beyond. Every year, more than 130 exhibitors gather at the Conventa (hotels, congress bureaus, congress centers, DMC and PCO agencies) and on the other hand 250 organizers from more than 45 countries.

The APRIORI TOURISM conference for several years brings together domestic and regional experts from the tourism sector, with the aim of developing destination tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Apriori BH - Agency for Professional Development, Event Management and Communications is the organizer of the conference, which is attended by representatives of the public, private and higher education sectors in the field of tourism. The aim of the conference is to present good examples and projects in the region, and to network experts and practitioners at the regional level. The program is thematically oriented towards new and interesting areas where there is potential for development. The conference is recognized by the profession and the public as a unique and leading tourism conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

ESPA is a non-profit and non-governmental association based in Belgium. It represents 20 countries in Europe, among them national and regional spas associations, health resorts and spa facilities, with natural remedies...

Its global objective is to promote spas, medical spas and balneology in Europe and to take care that the natural remedies based on mineral water, thermal water, peloids and climate will be available to a great number of citizens and visitors as possible. The principle of an association is “Unity is strength!” and therefore is ESPA taking up the challenge to fulfil the tasks that result from the opening of borders in Europe and the extension of the EU, to achieve the defined common aims of its members.

Why SMART TOURISM 5.0?

There is no doubt that tourism is entering the era of "super-smart society 5.0" in which everything is human-centred. Although it is most often identified with the application of digitalization and advanced technological solutions, robotics and artificial intelligence, smart tourism is definitely conditioned by the development of circular economy and sustainability, thus creating a healthy environment for human life and human society.

The organizers of SMART TOURISM 5.0:

host their partners, renowned international experts and local leaders
bring key trends, global and European experiences, ideas and plans of doing business in the future, and
discuss how to prepare for new tourism models after the crisis caused by months of isolation and disruption of all travel.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 17th 2020

10:00h

Experience Croatia, Feel Slovenia

Keynotes hosted by Tourism 365?

Are the borders within the EU really open, the effects of new campaigns, what about domestic tourists

Maja Pak, Slovenian Tourism Board / Slovenia
Kristjan Staničić, Director, Croatian Tourism Board
Ivana Kolar, Conference Director, Tourism 365?

10:30h

Conventa Exhibition, Slovenia

Are events gone-away, when will events in the Region start again, how to create new successful MICE campaigns

Miha Kovačić, Co-founder, Conventa / Slovenia
Gorazd Čad, Co-founder, Conventa / Slovenia
Igor Kovačević, CEO, Convention Bureau within National Tourism Organisation of Serbia / Serbia
Janez Kopač Lebar, Project and event Manager, MPG plus

11:15h

APRIORI Tourism conference, BH

COVID19 as a platform for new EU projects in the Region, new tourism products in the BH market, networking as a prerequisite for tourism recovery, expect from this year season and the next one

Josipa Terzić-Rezić, Conference organizer, Apriori BH / BH
Stjepan Primorac, President, Tourism Cluster Herzegovina / BH
Mili Bijavica, CEO, Fortuna Tours / BH
Ivan Jurilj, Director, European Integration Office, Government of WHC / BH

12:00h

ESPA - European Spas Association

Roundable in partnership with HTI Conference

Health tourism in the post-corona era, European medical spas and health resorts serving new demand, new products and communication channels, balneology at a service of Covid19 prevention

Csilla Mezösi, Secretary General, ESPA / Hungary
Siyka Katsarova, Vice President, ESPA / Bulgaria
Iztok Altbauer, Managing Director, Slovenian Spas Association / Slovenia
Marcel Medak, President, Health Tourism Association at the Croatian Chamber of Economy

12:45h

When will we meet again with Frano Ridjan?

Tourism business events and fairs in Croatia

Ognjen Bagatin, Project Initiator, Poduzetnički Mindset (Entrepreneurial Mindset)
Andrea Škerlj, Project Manager, HOW Festival
Adriano Požarić, Conference Director, Internet Adria
Adem Braco Suljić, Summit Director, MEETEX
Ingrid Badurina Danielsson, Festival Director, Taste the Mediterranean
Damjana Domanovac, Fair Director, PLACE2GO
Ivana Kolar, Conference Director, Tourism 365?
Frano Ridjan, TV shows and business conferences presenter

13:30h

How to re-focus in the New Normal?

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin