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This year’s World Tourism Day celebrated on 27 September focuses on the reconsideration about how we behave in tourism and how it is dealt with. The objective is sustainable and more inclusive tourism. It is time to start thinking differently, urges Maja Pak, the Director of the Slovenian Tourist Board.

On 23 September, when the Slovenian national anthem was played for the first time at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Slovenia celebrates the Day of Slovenian Sport.

This year’s European Mobility Week, taking place between 16 and 22 September, is marked by a day of free rail transport organised by the Ministry of Infrastructure in cooperation with the Slovenian Railways. More than 100 Slovenian municipalities participated in this year’s European Mobility Week.

Chef Ana Roš has once again been ranked among the ten best chefs in the world, as chosen by culinary connoisseurs The Best Chef Awards. Placed ninth, she is the highest placed woman in the ranking.

In 2021, 76% of residents of Slovenia (15–84 years) were daily mobile. Of the total number of trips, men made 51% and women 49%. Men were drivers of a car on 62% of their trips, while women drove on 49% of their trips.

On Thursday, 15 September, Slovenia observed the Return of Primorska to the Motherland Day.

A major success for Slovenian gastronomy: Michelin inspectors awarded Hiša Franko two stars again, already for the third time.

The summer holidays are almost over and on Thursday schools opened for about 270,000 basic and upper secondary school pupils.

Slovenia will host the Volleyball Men’s World Championship between 26 August and 7 September. This is the most visible and prestigious volley competition in the world.

The focus of this year's Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), which will be held between August 29 and 30 under the title 'The rule of power or the power of rules', will be the discussions about the repercussions of Russian aggression against Ukraine and the crisis of multilateralism. Parallel to the main event, the Young Bled Strategic Forum (Young BSF) will also take place from August 26 to 29 in Ljubljana and Bled.

The Guardian has released five of the best sustainable holidays across Europe, ranking Slovenia and its Green Wellness Route, a 322-kilometre cycling route connecting Slovenian health resorts, in the first place.

The American TV network, CNN, ranked Piran among Europe’s most beautiful towns. On its CNN Travel website, which focuses on travelling, CNN highlighted that this "mini Venice" is one of the prettiest towns on the short Slovenian coast.

Probably every day of the year is dedicated to a certain topic. Thus, we have days that celebrate mountains, poetry, walks, beer, etc. Ice cream lovers also have their own special day on the 3rd Sunday in July. What do official statistics show about this topic?
EU Member States produced 3 billion litres of ice cream in 2020. The biggest producer was Germany. In 2021, Slovenia imported almost EUR 16 million of ice cream and exported over five times more.

Last year Slovenia imported 82,600 regular and 16,400 electric bicycles. Bicycles were used on 204,000 daily trips, most of the time the purpose was leisure. Most residents of Slovenia with the same first/family name combination as Slovenian cyclists in this year’s Tour de France are Matej Mohorič.

On Monday 4 July, it was 10 years since researchers at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) presented to the public the results of an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider pointing to the existence of the Higgs boson. The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) also participated in the discovery of this elementary particle and marked the tenth anniversary of this landmark discovery with an event whose honorary patron was Slovenian President Borut Pahor.

The traditional event entitled Welcome Home, which is dedicated to all Slovenians who live abroad – both members of the national minorities in neighbouring countries, and those who live further afield – will this year take place in Ljubljana and Novo mesto. The whole event will take place from Thursday until Sunday, and it always takes place on the days around “Emigrant Sunday”, which is the first Sunday in July.

Ljubljana was officially declared European Best Destination 2022 on Monday, 27 June. The prestigious award was given to Mayor Zoran Janković by the CEO of the European Best Destinations organisation, Maximilien Lejeune.

On this coming Saturday, Slovenia will mark its 31st anniversary of independence.

Since 1981, more and more cities around the world have been celebrating World Music Day with free street concerts on the longest day of the year.

At today’s opening event, the organisers will pay tribute to the giant of Slovenian literature, Boris Pahor, with a passage from his novel, Nekropolis interpreted by the actor Pavle Ravnohrib. A literary evening organised by the Slovene Writers’ Association will follow. The readings will be given by members of the Slovene Writers’ Association, the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators and the Slovene PEN Centre.