Dyeing the Easter eggs, eating the traditional Easter pastry (pinca), young onions, ham, etc… Delicious! When we think of that we have the Easter holiday in mind. The time when children are happy, the eggs are dyed and then joyfully cracked; a tradition even our grandmothers and grandfathers remember. The English would say. “Home is [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Last year in September, St. Nikola’s Island near Porec welcomed artists from Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Croatia. The 27th painting colony selector Danino Božic gathered the following academic painters: Dare Birsa, Bojan Bensa, Tomislav Brajnovic, Mario Dalpra, Richard Kaplenig, Dušan Kirbiš and Silvestro Lodi. Riviera Porec founded the painting colony in 1983, on its thirtieth anniversary. [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Dance with the well-known international Latin dance champions Alice Guschelbauer and Balázs Ekker, stars of the Austrian TV show “Dancing with the stars”. This summer, this attractive dance couple will dance with the guests of the Porec hotels Valamar Club Tamaris and Valamar Diamant, as well as Rabac Valamar Bellevue Hotel & Residence. Choose a four-day [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Homemade oils made in the colder regions are more essential and healthier (the fatty acid ratio is better) than oils produced in southern parts of Europe or Africa. It is the afore-mentioned high content of unsaturated fatty acids, oleic acid and large quantities of antioxidants (polyphenols) that make olive oil a proven necessity for a [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Yet another business year is about end in Valamar. An extremely demanding year filled with many great challenges. One of the greatest ones was the successful implementation of our capital investment, i.e. building the largest congressional and spa hotel in Dubrovnik – the Valamar Lacroma Resort Hotel. The hotel was opened at the end of [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
We would like to thank you for participation in the photo contest and all photos that you have sent. We are extremely pleased with the number and quality of the submitted photos and we will certainly use some of them in our future marketing activities. In accordance with the rules of photo contest, all guests [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Dubrovnik hotel indoor tournament began on Saturday, on the 5 December and will take place for the next four weekends in the sports hall in Dubrovnik. 16 teams applied for the tournament, Valamar and the hotels Radisson Blu SAS, Importane Resort, Iberostar, Croatia, Bellevue, Park, Excelsior, Dubrovnik Palace, Plat, Libertas Rixos, Argentina, More, Hilton and [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
We thank all the guests for taking the time to fill in the questionnaires and the applications. The information you have provided us with in the questionnaire is very valuable to us and we hope that you will witness the improvements in our services already in 2010. In accordance with the prize competition rules, [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
In the old heart of the town of Porec, in the vicinity of the historical part of the town and on the Porec waterfront, construction works of renovating the Neptun Hotel the Parentino Depandance have started this year in the end of September. Under Valamar’s management, the first Croatian hotel brand, after their renewal, Valamar [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
(Press release) The Valamar Hotels & Resorts Company is taking over the management of the Luna**** Hotel in Jakisnica on the island of Pag, starting with the first day of 2010. The Management Agreement was signed today by Peter Fuchs, President of the Valamar Management Board and Neven Badurina, owner of the Luna Hotel. In accordance [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
From 17 to 22 November, Valamar Lacroma Resort, in collaboration with the Dubrovnik Tourism and Catering School, hosted the 22nd annual conference and the competition by the pupils and students of the European Association of Hotel and Tourism Schools (AEHT). The manifestation was opened by Radovan Fuchs, Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
Did you spend your holiday in one of our hotels or apartments in Istria? And did you have your camera or cell phone near you and recorded a moment that was precious for you? In case of your answer is ”yes”, we have very interesting news for you. We invite you to share the most [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
The finest hotel in the Valamar hotel offer in Porec, the Valamar Diamant Hotel, has won the prestigious acknowledgement by the British Thomson tour operator, the Thomson Gold Medal 2009 (Thomson Gold Awards) in the category for “the best summer 4-star accommodation in Croatia”. Valamar’s Argossy Hotel in Dubrovnik also received its first Thomson acknowledgment [...]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
(Press release) The top know-how management of the leading tourist group has recently been crowned with the signing of the first agreement on tourist management with third parties, for the Luna Hotel in Jakisnica on the island of Pag. Valamar concluded the past tourist season with good business results which met the targeted goals and even [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
(Press release) The 7th Annual MICE Europe Congress was opened with a ceremony held on 27 October at the Valamar Lacroma Resort Hotel, gathering more than 200 prominent managers from the largest European corporations. This prestigious assembly of the European managers, who are behind all decisions related to the organization of business events, is being [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Croatian Tourism Days, an annual tourist employee gathering, were held in Bol on the island of Brac from 21 to 23 October, organized by the Ministry of Tourism and co-organized by the Croatian Tourist Board and the Croatian Chamber of Economy. Awards by the Croatian Radio and Television and the Croatian Chamber of Economy, “Turisticki [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Two auto races will be held in Istria at the beginning of November. Each is special in its own way. The international “Exide Istra Challenge 2009″ 4×4 race, which will be driven across the playful landscape of the Istrian hinterland, will be held from 2 to 7 November. From Tinjan, along the Lim Fiord valley and [...]
Friday, October 23, 2009
Valamar Dubrovnik President Hotel was awarded a special acknowledgement for the hotel breakfast quality and offer within the “Turisticki cvijet – kvaliteta za Hrvatsku 2009” (Tourist flower – Quality for Croatia 2009) project, organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Croatian Tourist Board, Croatian Chamber of Commerce and Croatian Radio and Television, during which the quality [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
During the recent competition for the employee of the year 2009 in 25 categories, which was organized within the “VOLIM HRVATSKU” (I love Croatia) project by the Croatian Tourist Board, with the subject “Man-key of success in tourism”, a young lifeguard working at the Valamar Dubrovnik President Hotel beach, Dario Burmas, was found the best [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Relax your body and soul, release the everyday stress and do something for yourselves during these sunny, rainy or chilly autumn days. The wellness centre of the Valamar Diamant Hotel in Porec is the perfect place for this. Relax and forget the everyday problems and always being in a hurry with the help of our [...]
Marketing Specialist in Riviera Poreč Inc. Poreč is Nives’s birthplace, and she has longtime experience in tourism. She has been working at Riviera since 1996, and she writes about events and curiosities of her home town on Valamar blog…
Senior Associate in Marketing in Rabac Inc. On Valamar blog, she writes about subjects related to Rabac, the town she has private and business relations to, and also the town where she acquired her first experiences related to tourism as a high-school girl.
Marketing officer at company Dubrovnik-Babin kuk Inc. Nike is from Dubrovnik, she speaks three languages, and she started her carrier at hospitality desk in Valamar Dubrovnik President Hotel. Naturally, on Valamar blog, she writes about things related to her town Dubrovnik.
Lorena, a sales and marketing officer at Zlatni otok Inc., was born in a small town of Smokvica near Novi Vinodolski and she is 27. With this blog, she will regularly inform us about interesting things and events on the “golden island” (zlatni otok) of Krk.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010