{"id":3765,"date":"2015-12-08T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:15:52","slug":"slovenia-expects-another-tourism-record-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/slovenia-expects-another-tourism-record-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia Expects Another Tourism Record in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Slovenia may see another record tourist season this year, according to the Slovenian Tourism Board (STO). Data from the central bank show a 10.7 % annual increase in spending by foreign tourists in the first nine months of the year, reaching EUR 1.77 bn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STO acting director Maja Pak has told a recent event organised by journalists focusing on tourism that for the first time ever the number of overnights would exceed 10 million this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The [forecast] 12 % increase in foreign tourists is significantly above the figures recorded elsewhere in Europe,&#8221; <strong>Pak added<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most recent data from the Statistics Office show an 11 % annual increase in the number of tourists in the first ten months of the year, while the number of overnights in the same period went up by 7.5 %.<\/p>\n<p>The number of foreign tourists increased by 11.8% in the first ten months year-on-year, while the number of overnights by foreigners was 8.1 % higher, the STO said, quoting the Statistics Office.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Slovenian tourists has also increased. It was up by 9.2 % year-on-year, while the number of overnights they generated was up by 6.5 %.<\/p>\n<p>A similar positive trend has also been recorded in Ljubljana, the country&#8217;s number one destination. The capital expects to see 1.2 million overnights this year, a new record. EUR 10m are to be generated by tourists in Ljubljana in December alone.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism generates more than 12 % of Slovenia&#8217;s GDP and accounted for 8 % of the country&#8217;s exports in general and for some 40 % of services exported, according to the STO.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sloveniatimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sloveniatimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenia may see another record tourist season this year, according to the Slovenian Tourism Board (STO). Data from the central bank show a 10.7 % annual increase in spending by foreign tourists in the first nine months of the year, reaching EUR 1.77 bn. STO acting director Maja Pak has told a recent event organised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[146,356,355],"class_list":{"0":"post-3765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bureau-news","8":"tag-slovenia-en","9":"tag-sto","10":"tag-tourism"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}