Homecoming: come experience your ancestral home

In 2011 Slovenia is celebrating 20 years since its declaration of national independence. All those who have not yet visited the country of their ancestors will have even more reason to do so in 2011, since throughout the year the “Homecoming” project will involve a great many events, while special promotional tourist offers will be featured.

The main get-together for Slovenians will be held on 1 July 2011 in Ljubljana under the banner of “WELCOME HOME”, but this will mark only the peak of a series of tourism-related events that will take place across Slovenia throughout 2011.

In cooperation with a number of travel agents, the Slovenian Tourist Board has prepared a range of promotional packages and offers, in the hope of making it easier for people to decide on a visit to Slovenia, and making the travel more attractive. Do have a look at them.

The calendar of events – which should be attractive for Slovenians abroad as well as tourists who have some special association with Slovenia – and the special promotional packages can be viewed on the website, which the Slovenian Tourist Board has set up especially for this project, and the site will be continuously updated with new features. The website, which posts special tourist deals and packages for expatriates, emigrants and their nearest and dearest, is also planned as a forum for impressions and memories of their original family homeland. It will include a variety of interactive sections and rewards, while expatriates will also be invited to visit Slovenia via various social networks (FaceBook, Twitter, FourSquare) and other representational efforts by Slovenia’s tourism sector.

All details of the main event will also be published on the website of the Office for Slovenians Abroad and on the portal for Slovenians abroad. We should also point out another special website involved in the 20th anniversary of Slovenian independence, which gives details of all the events plus a cross-section of 20 years of Slovenian independence, and here you can read various stories, views and thoughts contributed along the way by a range of prominent Slovenians.

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