Tourism and Leisure Show – TIP (21 – 24 January 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Response to “Picture Slovenia” exceeded all expectations

The Picture Slovenia competition, which concluded this week, exceeded all expectations. An incredible 8546 photographs arrived at the website (www.pictureslovenia.com), contributed by over 1000 different photographers. The website was visited by over 45,000 people from 56 different countries around the world. The visitors viewed the photographs over half a million times.

Voting for the best photographs is still possible until midnight on 27 December. The authors of the winning photographs will be published on the website on Monday, 28 December. The selection of final winners will be based on the opinions of the website visitors and the jury evaluation.

The all-Slovenian project Picture Slovenia, i.e. the webpage, photo competition and exhibition of award winning photographs, in which amateur and professional photography lovers were able to participate, was created with the ambition of improving the presentation of Slovenia with images on the internet on the global scale. At present, key words and search criteria return only a small sample of hits; for the most part, correctly indexed photo material for searched items is not available. Picture Slovenia is a joint project of Nikon Slovenia, Slovenian Tourist Board, Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre with Tourism and Leisure Show – TIP, Dinners Club International and Zavod Tovarna.

Within the framework of the project Picture Slovenia, the best photographs in seven categories will be presented as part of the accompanying programme of the Tourism and Leisure Show – TIP, which will take place at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre from 21 to 24 of January 2010. TIP is a Show, which, in addition to bringing together offers of Slovenian tourism under one roof, also provides the offers and ideas for quality spent leisure time and presentation of foreign tourist destinations.

· holidays through the photo lens, presentation of the Picture Slovenia project, advice and photo equipment;

· escape the everyday, ideas for interesting and different trips;

· hints for holidays outside of Slovenia;

· presentation of offers of tourist agencies, hotels, spas, ski resorts, railways etc.;

· new cycling paths, not yet taken walkways, top surf points;

· holidays by the sea, presentation of vessels;

· providers of fashionable and quality leisure equipment.

At the same time, the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre also hosts the Boat Show, presenting smaller sport and tourist vessels, and Conventa, the largest Meetings and Incentive Travel show for the region of Southeast Europe.