Tourism Directorate

Policies and Topics

• Sustainable tourism

  Sustainable development is a fundamental policy of Slovenian tourism. Sustainability principles refer to the environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development. To ensure long-term sustainable development a suitable balance needs to be established between tourism's impact on the environment, tourism workers, local communities and tourism service providers.

• Promotion of Slovenia

  Slovenia is a small but diverse country that is proud of its achievements and interesting records: the oldest wooden wheel and axle in the world were found on its territory, it has the greatest proportion of the national territory included in the Natura 2000 network, thus reflecting its high level of biodiversity, it ranks third in Europe in terms of forest coverage. It has the deepest underground canyon and the largest intermittent lake in Europe, it is the homeland of the world renowned Lipizzaner horses, Slovenia’s karst caves are home to the world’s largest cave animal – proteus anguinus or the "human fish". It is one of the richest countries in Europe in terms of quantity of water per capita, and it can pride itself on the exceptional quality of its drinking water.