The third edition of Travel Zoom, International Conference on Strategic and Creative Marketing in Tourism, will be held from 26 to 27 March 2013, organized by the Faculty of Tourism Studies Portorož – Turistica in cooperation with GO.MICE, Bled Tourism Board and other partners will continue to talk about Bridging the Gaps in terms of synchronizing and optimizing tourism marketing and contemporaneity.

The organizers of the conference invite key players and decision makers in the field of tourism, marketing and advertising experts, academics and other business professionals working in tourism at come to Bled for two days of intriguing lectures, creative workshops  and good practice examples with more than 20 renown academics and experts in the field of marketing and tourism including:

-Dimitrios BUHALIS, Director of eTourism Lab / Deputy Director, International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR), School of Tourism, UK: E-tourism
-Edial DEKKER, CEO and co-founder, Gidsy.com, Germany: Finding new ways to make resources in travel more efficient
-Klaus-Dieter KOCH, Managing Partner, Brand:Trust, Germany: Destination Branding
-José Filipe TORRES, Founder, CEO & Head of Strategy, Bloom Consulting, Spain: Country Branding - building a country brand with an example of Poland
-Nastja MULEJ, The only Slovenian with a license for teaching deBono’s methods for more creative thinking: Creative Thinking Workshop and many more.

“Encourage a culture of knowledge sharing and bridge the gap! Whether your specialty is sales, advertising and media marketing, branding and social media or technology and project management in tourism, Travel Zoom is packed with plenty of learning, collaborating and networking with the best influencers, corporate executives, academics and entrepreneurs. By knowledge sharing we foster a culture of open innovation. Innovations are essential to our society because they make it move. And we like to move… in Bled style! Welcome!" said Dr. Aleksandra Brezovec, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica.

www.travel-zoom.si