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Mr. Zlatan Muftić, general manager of the Zagreb Convention Bureau, and general manager of the Zagreb’s Tourist Sector. He was born in Zagreb in 1972. He is the air traffic engineer, presently at the “Tourism Management” at the Faculty of Economy post-graduate studies in Zagreb. He has been working in tourism ever since 1993, beginning as a tourist informer, working also as an expert associate... 

Reed Travel Exhibitions organizes 12 events worldwide, including World Travel Market, Arabian Travel Market, EIBTM, AIBTM, CIBTM, GIBTM, AIME, International Golf Travel Market, International French Travel Market – Top Resa, International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM), La Cumbre and ILTM Asia. EIBTM 2011 takes places 29th November – 1st December 2011, Barcelona. On this occasion we have spoken... 

The Vienna Convention Bureau (VCB) was established in 1969 with the assistance of the municipality of Vienna and the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Eleven congress specialists work to acquire congresses, corporate conventions and incentives worldwide. For over 30 years, the office has built up an enormous database of facts and figures: a conventional “business database” pales into insignificance by... 

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, initialled in Dayton and signed in Paris in the end of 1995, which ended almost four years of conflicts, forms the work of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. With this Agreement, the OSCE Mission was determined as one of the organisations responsible for rendering assistance in securing permanent peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina... 

Visit London is the official visitor organisation for London. A leader in best practice destination marketing, Visit London promotes the UK capital internationally, throughout Britain and to Londoners, targeting leisure and business visitors. Visit London works in partnership with the Mayor of London, the London Development Agency, London Councils and the tourism industry. In order to present organization... 

Mr. Dejan Veselinov, a spokesperson of the Tourism Organisation of Belgrade for many years, assumed the position of acting director of this service instead of the former director Jasna Dimitrijevic on 1 October 2010. Mr. Veselinov, who has been working on promotion of Belgrade for almost a decade, has many plans for serious promotion and positioning of this city as important tourist centre. 1. Last... 

From the beginning of the academic year 2009/2010, he also performs the function of Faculty Director of the Faculty of Medicine at the Zagreb University, for which he was also elected by means of secret ballot by the members of the Faculty Council for the mandate 2009-2012. He is the Founder and Director of the Foundation „Croatian House of Heart“, established a week ago, which will enable Croatia... 

Graeme Barnett possesses over 14 years of experience in the global exhibitions industry working for Reed Exhibitions, the name behind the world’s leading portfolio of trade and consumer events. Having spent 5 years working on a number of key projects in the UK business (including acquisitions & venue development & planning) Graeme moved to Reed Travel Exhibitions in 2001 as Event Director... 

1. Today we keep hearing more about the potentials of Belgrade when it comes to convention or business tourism. According to You, what is the best asset for development of this type of tourism and the most important benefit for the city if it becomes a world-known convention industry destination? The advantage of Belgrade as business meetings’ venue is that we are a new destination. Besides, we already... 

Prior to starting Gary Grimmer & Company, Gary Grimmer served for eight years as the CEO of the convention bureau in Melbourne, Australia. He was also CEO at bureaus in Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico and Vice President of the Boston, Massachusetts bureau. Gary is a former Chairman of the Board of the International Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus (now DMAI) And believe...