Within the framework of the European EDEN project – European Destinations of ExcelleNce, SPIRIT Slovenia, Slovenian Tourist Board will, for the fifth year in a row, carry out the selection procedure for the European Destination of Excellence in Slovenia.

The theme of this year's selection is Accessible Tourism that represents tourism for everyone notwithstanding their physical or psychological limitations. Persons with special needs and the elderly are able to use tourist products in a functionally independent, righteous and dignifying manner.

Types of accessible tourism include:
• accessible tourism for movement-impaired persons (disabled persons on wheelchairs and those who travel with children in wheelchairs),
•  accessible tourism for sensory-impaired persons (blind and partially sighted, deaf and hard of hearing persons),
• accessible tourism for persons with intellectual and psychological impairment,
• accessible tourism for the elderly,
• accessible tourism for persons who have problems with regard to tourism (diabetes, allergies, vegetarians, vegans, etc.).

The conditions of participation and tender forms are accessible at the website www.slovenia.info/EDEN2013. SPIRIT Slovenia, Slovenian Tourist Board also organized an information day for all interested destinations on 13 February 2013 in Ljubljana.

The Slovenian destinations of excellence – Soča Valley, Solčavsko Region, Kolpa River and Idrija that gained the prestigious title European Destination of Excellence in the years 2008-2011 will be joined in 2013 by the fifth European Destination of Excellence in Slovenia.

---

EDEN project
E-mail:
Phone: +386 1 5898 578