National Tourism Organization of Serbia (NTOS), which featured the tourism offer of Serbia in front of many global tour operators  (Regent Holidays, Travel the Unknown, Exodus, Thomas Cook...) and media (Travel Channel, Travel Weekly, Food and Travel magazine, Sailing Travel Magazine, BBC, National Geographic...) at the International Travel Trade Show ''World Travel Market'' (WTM) in London (November 6 – 8, 2017), started the promotional media campaign for the winter season 2017/2018 at the local market (November 10, 2017) under the slogan ’See Serbia – Winter Holiday is Nearby’. The campaign, lasting by the end of February 2018, includes the winter mountain resorts (Kopaonik, Stara Planina, Zlatibor, Tara, Zlatar, Divčibare, Sjenica...), Serbian spas (Vrnjačka, Niška, Bukovička, Sokobanja, Prolom banja, Atomic Spa Gornja Trepča...), as well as the city centers (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Čačak, Kragujevac, Novi Pazar...) with special focus on the current museum offer and the atmosphere in the cities during the winter holidays. Since according to the data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia the Serbian mountain and spa resorts had in the first three months of this year the number of guests increase higher than 20% compared with the last year, by this campaign they should get closer to the local and international guests.

The intention is to show the offer diversity, but also Serbian creativity, innovativeness, entertainment and gastronomy.  

Ms. Marija Labović, NTOS CEO, points out „We shall get the Serbian tourism offer in the winter period closer to the publics also through the promotional messages, such as 'See Serbia... when you wish the holiday magic', 'See Serbia ... and experience the most tender winter moments', 'See Serbia... and wake up the child in you' ... We put special focus on the promotion by social networks Facebook and Instagram. The proposals for winter holiday in Serbia will be presented through digital media innovative formats, such as  Facebook Frames, live Facebook reactions, cinemagraphs  and 180o video, specially created for the campaign purpose“. 

National Council for the Tourism Development of the Republic of Serbia, presided by Dr. Rasim Ljajić, Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia, held its session (November 16, 2017) consisting of new members, in the Palace of Serbia. Beside defining actual measures for the tourism development of Serbia, the session was the reason to celebrate the most important recognition of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) handed to Prof. Dr. Slobodan Unković, Emeritus of  Singidunum University in Belgrade and Vice President of the National Council, by Mr.Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary General (October 23, 2017) in the UNWTO premises in Madrid. The recognition was given to Professor Unković, who has been cooperating with the UNWTO as an expert for more than 40 years, for his many years long successful work in the stimulation of the tourism development in the world, especially within the education of the high skilled staff for tourism.

At the meeting with the Council members, associates and tourism journalists, Profesor Unković highlighted „This is a recognition both to me and Serbia, since Serbia, along with its Region, is certainly among 50 most demanded travel destinations in the world. Tourism is not a stand by thing, but an important part of the economy, enabling many jobs opening. We realistically expect in this year the tourism income of about 1.5 billion US Dollars, but our objective are three billions. And as especially important matter, tourism has to pay more attention to the nature, since there are many bad examples in practice, such as deforestation for hotel apartment construction. Thus, one of our first forthcoming sessions will be devoted to the environmental protection, because, in addition to the economic dimension, there has to be also the environmental one“.

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The 12th International Fairs of Tastes GASTEXPO 2018 is held on January 31 to February 3, 2018, in Ljubljana. As declared by the organizer, „The Fairs of TASTES became in nine years one of the best fairs, oriented to the market of Slovenia and the neighboring countries. By its features, it covers Gastronomy, Drinks, Coffee, Pastry and Bakery. At the same time, there are also the Ice Cream and the WINE Fair, as well as Tourism Fair ALPE ADRIA”.
In addition to the latest catering trends, the workshops for manufacturing of drinks, ice cream and biscuits will be organized at the fair, as well and there will be also a competition in the manufacturing of ice cream and pizza, to which competitors from Serbia have been especially invited.