The last issue of Kongres Magazine in 2016 is here!

Dear Readers,

The last issue of the year is here and the results of the two most awaited surveys of 2016 are in. We are excited to reveal The most influential people in the SEE meetings industry and the Top 20 special venues of 2016, all selected by you, the readers of Kongres magazine.

In this issue you can read two exclusive interviews with two of the top hoteliers, Nikola Avram, General Manger of MK Mountain Resort from Serbia and Tomislav Čeh, General Manager of Union Hotels from Slovenia.

I wrote about the situation we have all experience at least once in our lives – the time that you feel that everything goes wrong at an event. I have also asked myself if it is true that the smaller the public funding, the greater the concern about the ROI of an event?

In Views find out about Why do we meet? Experts you met at Conventa Crossover shared their top tips. Colja M. Dams explained How to communicate in times of digital transformation, Jens Oliver Mayer spoke about How to use technology and content to built experiences that matter, while Petra Stušek shared Ljubljana’s success story about How to transform a city with untapped tourism potential into a “wannagothere” destination.

Voice from the Top this time around comes from Nuša Šolar, Director of sales at Union Hotels and Tine Brodnjak, new Managing Director at Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel Ljubljana.

In Focus we have put Klagenfurt for Meeting and Events. New Meetologues reveal the meetings’ happening and congress offer of the wonderful cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

We have put Ljubljana and Edinburgh and Zagreb and Glasgow Face2face. Off the beaten track will take you to Pavilion, while the Hidden congress guest visited and rated Hotel Yasmin and Doubletree By Hilton in Košice, Hotel Cornaro in Split and Falkensteiner Schlosshotel in Velden.

In this issue you can also find new hotels in the region; Hotel Peteani, Hotel Katarina, Hotel Bellevue and Brown Beach House, and of course our regular columns Telescope, Croatia Addendum, Conventa Addendum and Inside Ljubljana.