Dubravka Kalin

Director-General of Tourism Directorate, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport of Slovenia

Dubravka Kalin took over the management of the Directorate for Tourism at the Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport in October 2022. She initially gained extensive experiences in the sector of tourism as a tour guide, by working as a product developer in a tourist agency, and later by managing a tourism, sport and culture public institution. Destination promotion, development of unique experiences, activation of providers, enhanching stakeholders’s competences and management of european projects have thus became a key part of her involvement. Today, as director general, she actively advocates for the implementation of policies and measures of the Slovenian Tourism Strategy, fort the amendment of sectoral legislation and for the implementation of measures from the Recovery and Resilience Plan. She is convinced that social capital is the core of tourism.