The Association of Croatian Catering and Tourism Schools

Frankopanska 8

10 000 Zagreb

In accordance with the conclusions made on the 4 th Presidency session of 2nd March 2012

The Association of Croatian Catering and Tourism Schools

announces a call

for participation in the competition

“Promotion of Regional Tourism”

- This call for participation is directed to all vocational secondary schools that educate students for careers in tourism and hospitality industry.

- The subject of this competition is creating a promotional poster in B1 standard format (dimensions: 707x1000 mm).

- The aims of the competition are to encourage development and enrichment of regional tourism, to strengthen the interest of young people in widening the scope of tourism promotion and its possibilities, and to raise public and community interest in careers in tourism and hospitality industry.

- Students are invited to design and create a poster closely related to promotion of their region on one (or a combination) of the following topics:

-Local heritage – tradition and modernity

-Natural and cultural attractions as a distinctive tourism product

-Additional facilities in local tourism

-The future of tourism – potential and possibilities

-Tourism for young people

-Technology and ecology in tourism – clash or coexistence?

-Sustainable development: sustainable tourism product

-Students are to design and create a poster under the guidance of one or more mentors. Cooperation with the local tourist board, tourist offices and associations is welcome.

- Encouraging creative approach in poster design is desirable.

- Posters need to be original students' work and to have original content, i.e. they must not be taken from publicly available content and pre-designed materials.

-The following techniques can be used in poster production: collage, writing, drawing, painting (various techniques) and graphic or digital design, i.e. reproduction.

- Poster composition and layout should favor visual art forms instead of text formatting.

- Students' work will be exhibited and presented during the 32nd State and International GASTRO Competition in Dubrovnik, April 16-19th, 2012.

- In addition to poster boards, the organizer shall provide smaller desks, where promotional materials (brochures, leaflets, flyers, digital materials) of local tourist boards are to be displayed by the competitors. The promotional materials exhibited shall not be evaluated during the assessment of students' posters.

-The posters will be judged by a commission consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, the Ministry of Tourism, Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education, Croatian Tourist Board and the media.

- Posters will be evaluated based on the accomplished clarity of message, compliance with the topic, quality of content, visual/graphic design, creativity and originality.

-The official languages of the competition are Croatian and English

-Best posters will be awarded valuable prizes:

- 1st place: laptop computer

- 2nd place: document camera

- 3rd place: digital camera

- Schools are invited to submit their entries (please see the table attached) as each school needs to be assigned a competition registration number prior to the competition. Deadline for entries is April 10th, 2012. Entries should be emailed to , The Association of Croatian Catering and Tourism Schools.

COMPETITION ENTRY FORM

“PROMOTION OF REGIONAL TOURISM”

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 10TH APRIL, 2012

NAME OF SCHOOL
ADDRESS
CONTACT INFO (phone, fax, cell phone, email address)
MENTOR
STUDENT/S PARTICIPATING

School principal:

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