Marijana Biondić

Director, Crikvenica Tourist Board

After completing her studies in economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rijeka in 1998, Marijana started working at the Tourist Office of the District of Vinodol, first as an expert associate and from 2002 until 2007 as Director. From 2007 to 2010, she was the Director of Senj Tourist Board. Since 2010, she has been Director of Crikvenica Tourist Board (Crikvenica, Dramalj, Jadranovo and Selce).

She has a wide experience in creating and developing different projects in tourism, creating destination brands, creating and developing new events such as Vinodol’s Summer Evenings, Uskok Days, Frankopan Days, the CrikvArt street entertainer festival, the Oily Fish Month/Route, (Sr)etno Selce ethno festival, Moja mala kala traditional event and organising numerous entertainment, traditional, cultural, sports, recreational and other events through the entire year. In addition, she has been very successful at marketing and promoting the Crikvenica Riviera, which in 2014 won the award for the most creative destination in the world (awarded by the Creative Tourism Network in Barcelona) and many other international and national  awards.