Project author: Šimičić Đurđica, Master of Economics
She is the owner of the company Feel IQM.
In the period from 2006 to 2016, while she was the director of the Tourist Board of Mali Lošinj, she started branding it as the island of vitality. In 2010 she received a personal reward for the best employee of the Croatian Tourist Board. From 2016 to 2019 she was employed as a brand manager at Jadranka hotels in Mali Lošinj.
She presented the Lošinj concept of destination management at the congresses: in 2015 – she presented Lošinj to the UNWTO Congress as one of the best examples from the practice of destination management. In 2014 she presented the destination management at the European Interparliamentary Conference “Sustainable Tourism Challenges”. At the Congress in 2012 – the World Congress of Cultural Tourism in Dubrovnik she presented the concept of cultural tourism on Lošinj.
At the London Apoxyomenos show, she presented the Apoxyomenos concept of the island of vitality at the British Museum. She has been leading the ETIS project, which has become part of the European Commission for the implementation and measurement of sustainability indicators at the destination. Since 2016 she is certified Health professional. The certificate is obtained by Medical Tourism Association, USA.
She is communicative and encourages partnership and synergy. She accepts and encourages new ideas, she is proactive and always stimulates the ideas to be tested in practice with the control of results. She is responsible towards goals and tasks and very collegial. She is experienced in project management, making decisions, working on projects of local and national importance. She is also experienced in working with non-profit organizations and associations as well as with economic entities. She gained her organizing skills in managerial positions as director of tourist agencies, director of Mali Lošinj Tourist Board, Director of Product Development Department, brand manager at Losinj Hotels & Villas and a number of other socially responsible functions.
Project author: Anamarija Cicarelli, BSc. tourism
She comes from a family who has been renting rooms, managing guesthouses and later on apartments and since the 1960s and her family is considered one of the pioneers of tourism on the Central Dalmatian islands.
Since early childhood she has been involved in family affairs. He is the author of four professional books on tourism – family accommodation.
At the same time she is the owner of Interligo company. Within the company there is a “Counseling for the owners of private accommodations”. The company Interligo is also the publisher of the magazine “APARTMAN PLUS” specialized for the owners of the private accommodations, holiday homes and other types of family accommodations.
MA. Pero Matić - a consultant in the hotel segment of the IQM Destination project
He graduated from the Faculty of Tourism and Foreign Trade in Dubrovnik, at the University of Split.
He began his career as a marketing director at Nova banka, then as finance and controlling director responsible for the finance sector at the Bonavia Hotel in Rijeka. Director of Control and Planning, in the Planning and Analysis Sector in the Adriatic Luxury Hotels in Dubrovnik and until 2005, Director of Finance and Control, responsible for the finance sector at Hotel Excelsior in Dubrovnik.
2005 – 2017 President of the Management Board, responsible for the total business of Hotel Plat and in 2018 the President of the Management board of the Jadran Hotel in Crikvenica.
Occasional lecturer at Libertas University and lecturer at American College of Management and Technology.
For one mandate, he is the Chairman of the Operating committee of Association of Employers in Croatian Hospitality. He is currently employed as a consultant, specialized in financial counseling at Dokumentalist company.
