October 21, 2020 – The 81st Skal International World Congress will be held in Opatija and Rijeka in 2022, bringing around 1,000 tourism professionals to the Kvarner region.
At the online session of the General Assembly of the Skål International Association, the Skål Club Kvarner unanimously confirmed they would host the World Skål Congress, which will be held from October 13 to 18, 2022.
HRTurizam reports that, unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Skål Congress, which was to be held in Opatija and Rijeka this year, was canceled under the motto “SKÅL CONGRESS IN THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2020”. However, tourism workers from Kvarner did not give up on the unique opportunity to present their region to the representatives of the world’s largest association of tourism professionals. They will still have their chance in a few years.
The repeated demanding candidacy of Kvarner, Opatija, and Rijeka was presented at today’s session of the General Assembly by Irena Peršić Živadinov (president of Skål Club Kvarner for two terms and director of the Kvarner Tourist Board). Kvarner was unanimously, and with the great support of colleagues from around the world, entrusted with hosting this event, which is of immeasurable importance for tourism destinations and the whole of Croatia.
Skål Club Kvarner is celebrating 10 years of work this year and was founded thanks to Katica Hauptfeld, owner of the famous travel agency Katarina line, which gathered some of the most influential tourist workers in Kvarner. Together, projects and ideas quickly became noticed in Skål International circles internationally. Thus, both this candidacy and the congressional hosting in 2020 and again in 2022 is largely to her credit.
It is expected that during this prestigious international event in 2022, about 1,000 participants will visit Kvarner, including many owners of influential travel agencies and tour operators who will have the opportunity to show the tourism potential of the region and who will even more successfully offer Croatian tourist facilities to its clients.
SKÅL International is an international organization of tourism managers with about 14,000 members in over 340 clubs in more than 100 countries around the world and is the largest in the tourism sector. Members of SKÅL Club Kvarner are professionals in Kvarner tourism (hoteliers, agencies, tourist boards, representatives of the academic community, and others). Skål clubs Zagreb, Dubrovnik, and Split still operate in Croatia.
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