{"id":10244,"date":"2018-10-10T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:05:51","slug":"slovenia-was-declared-european-region-of-gastronomy-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/slovenia-was-declared-european-region-of-gastronomy-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia was Declared European Region of Gastronomy 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Developed by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT) experts, the European Region of Gastronomy title is awarded to regions as a stimulus to link food, hospitality, tourism, culture, arts, health and sustainability and to support economic, cultural, social and environmental development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Diane Dodd<\/strong>, President of IGCAT and expert on urban and regional cultural and arts strategies, said that the jury was <strong>impressed by the gastronomic strengths of the region and the dedication to sustainability<\/strong>, and with the work already undertaken in the region in this regard. What also impressed them was the wide range of stakeholders taking part in the project. There is also <strong>an exceptional ethos and high quality of food production in Slovenia<\/strong>, along with a pride and passion that everyone they met during their visit showed in their appreciation of the land and their capacity for self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The title will <strong>help Slovenia in its quest to become world renowned as a great green country in terms of gastronomy, sustainable tourism, food education and quality food supply<\/strong>. The award ceremony took place in Brussels on 8 October 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>STB, photo: T. Jesenicnik, STB<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT) experts, the European Region of Gastronomy title is awarded to regions as a stimulus to link food, hospitality, tourism, culture, arts, health and sustainability and to support economic, cultural, social and environmental development. Dr Diane Dodd, President of IGCAT and expert on urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bureau-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10247,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/10247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}