What’s so special about this year’s Best Stay in Terme Sveti Martin in Croatia
Three days of exciting and useful content with a focus on networking and practical examples. All of this in the only European region that won the European Destination of Excellence award three times in a row.
This year's Best Stay conference will be held October 12th - 14th in Terme Sveti Martin and traditionally brings together hoteliers, tourism professionals, and companies that improve tourism with their products and services.
We gathered tourism professionals from the USA, United Kingdom, Estonia, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Croatia.
Maximizing the potential of your people
When we say it’s all about people, you know what we are talking about. Today one of the main challenges across all industries is to gather and then retain people. Retaining people became a virtue in itself and we do not want to pretend we have a magical stick or a magical formula and that we know how to do it. But there is something we are doing right all those years for which we are organizing Best Stay in Croatia.
And for that same reason, we can now proudly say that one of the milestones for this year’s Best Stay is behind us. The event’s agenda is published and this definitely wouldn’t be possible without you, all the amazing people.
Some of you follow us from the very beginning, and some of you just joined our Best Stay journey. We are thankful to each of you for being here, not only for us or for the sake of the agenda, but for all the colleagues who will be part of the event and who are excited to hear your experiences.
The magic of technology and integration, to create the best guest experience
For this year we have prepared some novelties, but it’s still too early to publicly speak about them. ;) But what we can say is that we are preparing some cool technology things for the audience engagement, and a bit different event experience. Don’t worry, we’ll keep you posted.
On the other side during Best Stay you will hear and experience different technology cases, and we are sure some of them might be useful for your business as well.
Money matters in hospitality
Every product or idea needs funding to succeed. And we are all looking for strategies to keep our businesses stable in an unstable economic environment over the last few years. Best Stay is not an exception. But thanks to our partners and sponsors we were able to start our planning early and wisely choose not only the event’s venue, but also all the activities, and those small details that hopefully makes difference.
As the event organizer, you know we understand the real meaning of “last minute”. But we are not bragging or looking for mercy. We are just encouraging you to invite your colleagues to join us and book a Best Stay conference ticket on time. And yes, it’s a good idea to book accommodation in Terme Sveti Martin on time as well (in case you still didn’t do it).
Walking the talk of sustainability in tourism
Everywhere in the world “sustainability” is the word. But do we know how to walk the talk? At Best Stay, we will have two keynotes with sustainability in focus. In the first one Nuša Korotaj, General Manager of Terme Sveti Martin will lead us through a story of sustainable business practices and strategies of the first Croatian EU Ecolabel certificated hotel. And in the second one Ged Brown, CEO of Low Season Traveler will show us the difference between being sustainable and being seen as sustainable. We will hear an amazing story from Carlos and its Futurismo from the Azores - to be honest one of our favorite international destinations.
As event organizers, we will do our best we can to lead by example. We can’t promise we do it all by the book (it’ll be the first time to implement some of the practices), but what we know is that we will talk about all the activities and their impact in the report after the event. And then we will see how we did. Till then, we’ll keep doing our best and keep our fingers crossed. :)
Maximizing the potential of outdoor space in tourism
Summer is here and summertime is all about being outside. Camping and glamping are popular more than ever. Hoteliers are extending their offers and creating new hotel concepts focused on a guest's special interests and values, not only at the seaside but in the cities as well. At Best Stay, you’ll hear and see firsthand about novelties in the Croatian hospitality market. That’s also all we can say for now. :)
Becoming resilient and prepared for tomorrow's tourism challenges and opportunities
To wrap up this year’s Best Stay we will do our best to give as many ideas and answers as possible on the topic “How to be a hospitality superhero, and plan your hospitality business proactively while building resilience.”
And there is not much more to add at this point. Everything else would be revealing to many event details.
We wish you not only a successful summer season, but from the bottom of our hearts we wish you to take care of yourself and surround yourself with amazing people as we did - as we said at the beginning - we made it thanks to you.
Your Best Stay Team
“Progress isn’t always about getting better. Sometimes it’s about bouncing back. Success is not only the peak you reach - it’s the valleys you conquer. Every experience of enduring adversity & overcoming an obstacle is a meaningful accomplishment. Resilience is a form of growth.”