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Air passenger traffic in Slovenia up by 46% last year

Ljubljana – Air passenger traffic in Slovenia recovered last year from the shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the three international airports in the country serving a total of 419,300 passengers or 46% more than in 2020. The lion’s share represented passengers served by the Ljubljana airport.

Bitch, a Derogatory Term for a Woman gets Vesna for best film

Portorož – This year’s Vesna Award for best feature film went to Prasica, Slabšalni Izraz za Žensko (Bitch, a Derogatory Term for a Woman), a debut by Tijana Zinajić, as the Festival of Slovenian Film wrapped up in the coastal town of Portorož on Sunday evening with the conferring of what are considered Slovenian Oscars.

Majority stake in newspaper Primorske Novice sold

Koper – Splošna Plovba, a Portorož-based shipping company in German ownership, has sold its 52.45% stake in media company Primorske Novice to three companies – Svet24, Salomon and Curator Nova.

Svet24 is a tabloid and a news portal owned by media company Media24, just like classifieds magazine and news portal Salomon.

Merkur in Vrnjacka Banja champion of health tourism

BELGRADE - Medical Center Merkur in Vrnjacka Banja as the champion of health tourism in South Eastern Europe (SEE) and Belgrade in the category of cultural tourism are the winners of Golden Tourist Heart awards, according to the jury of the International center for tourism and hospitality development Sacen International.

Two awards for campaign highlighting violence against media

Two awards for campaign highlighting violence against media

BELGRADE -- Saatchi&Saatchi Belgrade has won two awards for the campaign ''Chronicles of Threats" at the prestigious European Festival of Creativity Eurobest in Helsinki.

The campaign was done with the Serbian Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists and the OSCE.