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The northern Adriatic island of Losinj has won a prestigious award of the international association of travel and tourism professionals - Skal International - for sustainable development in tourism, the tourism board of the Mali Losinj town reported on Monday. Skal international, a professional organisation of tourism leaders around the world promoting global tourism and friendship, has been giving the awards for the past 11 years in various categories.

Croatia needs to connect its tourism and hospitality management curriculums and other vocational curriculums with the private sector as soon as possible because that is the only way for the private sector to get qualified and skilled labour it needs to become competitive on the market, Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin said on Monday evening after visiting a tourism school in Bad Gleichenberg, near Graz, in Austria. The school offers an excellent education in tourism and is an example of good practice, preparing students for specific work in the tourist sector as soon as they leave school. It is privately owned and has about 400 students from 20 countries, including three from Croatia. The school is partly financed from the regional government budget and partly by school fees, while the teachers are paid by the central government.