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Can you market a country like a product?

February 17, 2009

Serbian Ministry of tourism recently said that there will be only 135 thousand euros spent for re-branding of Serbia this year. This is admittedly not a lot of money considering some countries spend that much for the same purpose in a day. But, on the other hand, it is way too much money if you [...]

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Miroslav Ilic – our new ambassador to Tunisia?

February 15, 2009

That day was bound to come – when we decide to send a folk star as a diplomatic representative of our country. Well, at least that’s the word on the streets of Belgrade (still not official), and at least it’s not a turbo-folk, but an old school folk star, Miroslav Ilic (defense minister’s father-in-law – [...]

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Vrelo – ignored in Serbia, hot abroad

December 17, 2008

Music band Vrelo is having problems getting popular home in Serbia, despite the fact that the songs they are performing are all traditional Serbian songs (in modern production).
On the other hand, they are doing pretty good abroad. Here they are on BBC’s “Next Big thing” show, where last year they won second place:

It’s not the [...]

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Hens and Stags – Where Are They?

November 8, 2008

Since Belgrade is pretty cheap and generally a party city, where are all those stags and hens roaming the Belgrade streets and passing out drunk on them?

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The Party City

October 30, 2007

Sunday Times brings us a report on six world party cities of choice: Milan, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and – Belgrade. Do you see an intruder on this list?
I see five of them: Milan is the fashion city, Amsterdam is the weed city, Paris is the love city, Berlin is the wall city, and [...]

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Living statue: Rembrandt in Belgrade

June 19, 2007

One of the true signs of tourist city is when you see a number of Living statue people anchored all over the place in the central or pedestrial area.

video by berdukian
In the case of Belgrade, Serbia, seeing this first living statue in city history (as far as i can tell, and maybe in country’s history [...]

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Cultural spillovers

April 11, 2007

You probably had the situation when you mention to someone your favourite movie, song, book and they just say: never heard of it. But it’s a very famous song/movie/book, you say, everybody knows about it. You try by citing directly from the source to remind the person But the other person just won’t give in [...]

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The 46th Guca trumpet festival

August 30, 2006

Guca recap can be found here. Beth Kampschror gives her impressions here (via YG)
Most will have heard of the Guca Festival by now. It earns its place here at the Belgrade blog on account of its increasing popularity with foreign tourists and its branding potential.

Recorded in Guca last year by Sini Vlaisavljevic
The Guca Festival is [...]

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Serbian summer news – hot or not?

August 26, 2006

Serbian summer news – hot or not?
It is often said that the summer is bad season for some major happenings, breaking news and other similar stuff that would interest a keen news reader in any way. That seemed like a nice period to take some time off from blogging and relax, prefferably away from home, [...]

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Tourism in Serbia

July 5, 2006

Well this is a translation of an article published in today’s Blic. www.blic.co.yu
foreigners afraid of large portions
Welcoming people, atmosphere, nightlife, restaurants, bars, river boat(s) Belgrade cafes, girls – they are the things most foreign tourists find attractive about Serbia.
Depending on the country the tourist is from one can work out what they are most interested [...]

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The Ceca™ by Serbia®

June 19, 2006

Couple of stories hit me in the past two days as striking and in a lot of ways connected. First it was this happening described here by Bg anon:
As promised Ceca fulfilled her long stated desire to hold a concert at Usce close by the rivers Danube and Sava. A reported 100,000 people attended – [...]

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Obvious

June 13, 2006

As I am writing, Togo is leading 1-0 against South Korea …. I am obviously writing about the Football World Cup 2006 that is held in Germany…. Sorry for the interruption…. Korea just scored a goal…. That’s 1-1 and my business is getting better… I put all my money on a win from Korea over [...]

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