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At the official opening of the Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show, the central tourist event in the Alpe-Adria region, attended by renowned representatives from Slovenia and abroad, Jakob award was granted. The award got its name after the pilgrim Jacob who symbolizes the first tourist traveller.

President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor visited the fair Alpe–Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show at the GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre late this afternoon. The event is the biggest fair-type promotion of tourism in Slovenia as well as in the Alpe-Adria region.

At the GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre (GR) press conference two events from the 2014 events calendar were presented: Vino Ljubljana and the central tourist fair in the region, Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show, which will take place from 29 January to 1 February. The honorary sponsor of the fair is the Ministry for Economic Development and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia.

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre this year awarded, for the third time, international Jakob prize for excellency and quality in tourism. The theme of this year's prize competition was Innovative and Original Ways of Including Immovable Cultural Heritage in Tourism.

Next Thursday, on 24 January 2013, starts the central tourist show in the Alps-Adriatic region, organised by GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. The event Alpe–Adria: Tourism and Leisure was, together with the Boat Show, which will take place at the same time, officially approved by the Alps-Adriatic Working Community two years ago.

Last night, the doors of the Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show and the Boat Show officially closed.

The end of January is already traditionally reserved for tourism at the GR - Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Following last year’s successful thematic and destination breakthrough of the refreshed largest tourist fair-type event in Slovenia, the Alps-Adriatic Working Community expressed its official support to Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure in October last year.

The Alps-Adriatic Working Community has officially confirmed the Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show as the central tourism event of the Alps-Adriatic region, which includes 10 individual regions of Italy, Austria and Hungary, as well as Slovenia and Croatia in their entirety.

Yesterday Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre saw the first day of the Alpe–Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show and of the Boat Show. The first day, with an emphasis on business, was marked by the 1st Meeting of travel journalists FIJET of the Alps-Adriatic region, regional meeting of tourist guides, Travel Zoom - a conference on the role of marketing in tourism, and by the official opening of the Show. The day was concluded with the awards ceremony of the international Jakob prize.

The end of January is already traditionally reserved for tourism at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Following a 30-year development of this type of an event, the destination and programme updated Alpe-Adria: Tourism and Leisure Show presents itself between the 27 and 30 January.