Apr 24, 2008

TIP 2009: Are you ready for new adventures?

The Tourism and Leisure Fair is calling for applications (22 – 25 January 2009). Event organizers are inviting exhibitors to join in the traditional presentation of Slovene tourist offer, arranged by separate destinations, a presentation of global tourist destinations and various tourist service providers. We are also preparing some new concepts and a rich accompanying program. This year the Tourism and Leisure Fair became a member of the renowned international fair organization ITTFA.

Beside the Exchange of congressional activities, camping equipment show and Boat Show, which are taking place at the same time, a lot of the fair resources will be given to new developments in quality free time activities: cycling, surfing, nautical tourism and golf.

This year the fair will for the first time be presented through the International Tourism Trade Fairs Association. The main task of the organization is establishing new ways to promote traveling and help improve the tourist industry.

It should be mentioned that last year we succeeded to put together all the tourist industry subjects in Slovenia and present a truly wholesome offer of free time activities for everybody both at home and abroad. 542 businesses from 25 countries presented themselves on 13.000 square meters of exhibition space and in four days the event was visited by about 26,000 visitors.

Jan 28, 2008

A Very Successful Turnout at the Tourism Fair

On Sunday, 27 January, the Ljubljana Conference and exhibition centre saw the event noted as Slovenia's largest presentation of tourism and leisure ideas on offer come to a close. It combined four fair events into one single event: SIMEX, the Slovenian Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings and Events, the Tourism and Leisure fair, the Camping & Caravanning Festival and the Boat Salon. 13.000 square metres of exhibition space featured as many as 542 companies from 25 countries. The event was visited by around 26.000 people over the four days when the event took place. Exhibitors and organisers assess the event, which featured all entities from the field of tourism for the first time ever, as very successful, as it attracted 6.000 more visitors than last year. Let us mention that the Camping & Caravanning festival is set to feature once more on the calendar of events this year, namely at the Sports and Recreation Fair (20–23 November, 2008).

Dec 19, 2007

Taste the colors of diversity in the capital of Europe

This is the motto of this year’s Tourism and Free Time Fair (TIP 2008), which will take place from January 24th to 27th 2008.

Thee other events are taking place along with TIP 2008, namely the 4th Camping & Caravanning Festival, the 4th Boat Show and the 2nd SIMEX Congress Exchange of Tourist Activities, all of which aim to improve the recognisability of our local tourist and culinary offer, equipment and offer for quality free time activities and also business opportunities in tourism.

We aim to establish a network of cooperation between key players in the field of tourism and culinary offer. During the time when Ljubljana is the capital of Europe it is air main goal to expand the network of cooperation across our borders and particularly emphasize the growing trend of spending free time traveling on land (mobile homes) or water (nautics).

Together with our partners (Slovene Tourist Board, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, AS PRESS, Institute for Tourism of Ljubljana, Institute-Office of Congress Tourism) we will expand our events to become the central topical event in Slovenia with a long term wish to expand over the borders of Slovenia and become a meeting place for market and trade routes in this part of Europe.

News from the field of tourism, particularly the Na lepše project, camping and caravanning equipment, boats and culinarics will be offered to both direct users and professional public with an excellent opportunity to make new business contacts.

Visitors and particularly tourist participants - exhibitors will be treated to a presentation of the content, meaning and types of markings on Slovenian protected agricultural produce and foodstuffs, including:

• farming produce and foodstuffs marked produced in specified regions,
• farming produce and foodstuffs marked produced regionally,
• farming produce and foodstuffs marked traditional renown,
• farming produce and foodstuffs of distinguished quality and
• presentation of county wines and wines classified as quality wines as a continuation of the My wine project.

The main sponsor of this year’s Tourism and Free Time fair is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, which is taking part in the TIP 2008 event with its own exhibition space. We will also prepare exhibition spaces for producers around the main exhibition area, where visitors will be able to sample the above foods and wines, neatly arranged on hay bales and wooden barrels. The main stage inside the Ministry's main exhibit is also set for presentations and degustations.

We expect to see about 30,000 visitors attracted to the interesting and well planned event. Entry is free of charge.

Dec 18, 2007

Camping & Caravaning festival 2008 sold out!

About a month before the opening of the 5th Camping & Caravaning Festival 2008, which will take place together with the Tourism and Free Time Fair and the Boat Show from January 24th to 28th 2008 at Ljubljana’s Gospodarsko Razstavišče fairgrounds, we are in the final phase of preparations for what will most likely be the largest common exhibition of travel and free-time offer in Slovenia. The event, which combines three specialized exhibitions (tourism & free time, boat fair and the camping&caravaning exhibition), is forecast to attract over 30,000 visitors.

Due to an increasing demand from exhibitors, the Festival has moved from its previous outdoor location to the Gospodarsko Razstavišče Fairgrounds for a long-term engagement. In spite of a great increase in exhibition space for recreational vehicles, mobile homes, camping trailers and mobile houses, we yet again managed to sell out all available space. Last minute arrangements are only available for camping equipment and services suppliers.

The desk of the Avto-Dom magazine, the event’s organizer, assures us that this year we will bear witness to the largest display of camping and caravanning in Slovenia ever: 5000 m2 of exhibition space, 50 exhibitors and over 200 represented companies and trademarks.

The list of exhibitors includes just about every single supplier in our market. They are getting ready to present over 100 latest model mobile homes and caravans of 32 European manufacturers, including some of the most prestigious models costing over 200,000 Euros. The brands Benimar, Caravelair, CI and XGO will see their first Slovenian presentation, along with two of the most prestigious brands in Europe, Concorde and Niesmann+Boschoff.

Along with a full range of recreational vehicles, the fair shall also showcase all additional equipment for the vehicles, camping equipment, hiking and free time gear, bikes, scooters and travel literature. All of the displayed goods will also be available for purchase. The fair will naturally also showcase a number of local and foreign camping areas.

On each day of the fair, the organizers will give away a week long family holiday (up to 5 persons) for the beginning of May. The visitors will be able to choose their destination from the catalog of the main sponsor Holiday Cheque, which includes 87 destinations throughout Europe.

Entry is free of charge.