Last night, the doors of the Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show and the Boat Show officially closed. The Tourism Show, titled the Alpe-Adria Show since last year, is the official tourist event of the Alps-Adriatic region, which incorporates 10 individual regions of Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. Over a period of 4 days, from 26 to 29 of January, more than 300 providers of tourist services from 12 countries and 16 nautical companies from the region presented themselves. The Show also showcased more remote destinations, such as Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Bosnia and Herzegovina with Italy and Hungary in their entirety. Approximately 16,000 visitors attended the event. The need for regional integration was emphasised by
Mr. Wolfgang Platzer, PhD, Secretary General of the
Alps-Adriatic Working Community, who stated at the official opening on the 1st day of the Show: “I emphasize once again – and I will not stop doing it until we have achieved the aim – that we have to promote our common area together in interesting tourism markets around the world.
Two international Jakob prizes for excellence and quality in tourism were also presented at the opening. Under this year’s theme of
Innovative tourist programmes in the field of alternative forms of leisure and relaxation the international expert jury selected:
- Project of Ecological Village of Forest Fairies at Camping Bled, Sava Turizem d.d. - Camping Bled, and
- Project from Austrian Styria entitled Nature Park in Motion, Nature Park Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen.
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The subject of the competition for the
2013 Jakob prize will be: Innovative and original ways of including immovable cultural heritage in tourism. In cooperation with the
Slovene Association of Chefs and Confectioners and other partners, Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show hosted an international cooking competition, the
Global Chef Challenge, which took place in front of a live audience of visitors. The challenge for the best chef was extended also to junior chefs under 23 years of age (the Hans Bueschkens Junior Chef Challenge). Teams from Malta, Italy, Montenegro, Cyprus, Croatia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Slovenia took part in the competition.
The Italians proved out as the best chefs. Angelo Di Lena won among the seniors and Francesca Narcisi in the category of junior chefs up to 23 years of age.
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