Event Description Registration Rates
Conference Location:
The conference will be held at St. Clement University, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Ohrid, Macedonia.
City Location:
Ohrid is an authentic town with a scenic location on the north shore of Lake Ohrid, the oldest lake in Europe. Other natural highlights in the vicinity include Galichica Mountain and Lake Prespa.
Accommodation:
IMPORTANT NOTICE - book your hotel room now!
We strongly encourage you to make your hotel reservations as soon as possible due to the hotel policies in Macedonia. There is also a holiday the week of the conference, so hotel rooms will be difficult to find if you wait too long.
Preferred hotels:
Travel information to Ohrid
Ohrid has a small airport which is mostly serviced in summer by tour operators. Flying to Ohrid would of course be the easiest option but only a few companies fly and most flights are seasonal (summer) and only start mid-May. However, Wizzair flies a few times a week from London Luton, Zürich and Basel to Ohrid.
In terms of connections, by far the best option is to fly to Skopje. There are direct flights from the major European capitals (check out Rome, Paris, London, Vienna, Zürich, Istanbul). Also, do not forget to look at the lowcost airline Wizzair which has quite a number of connections to cities throughout Europe (e.g. Barcelona, Eindhoven and Stockholm, Gothenburg, etc.). You can find info on the website of Skopje airport: http://skp.airports.com.mk/default.aspx?ItemID=359. The currently listed flights are the winter schedule, there is more in summer.
The trip from Skopje airport to Ohrid can be done by bus or taxi. The website of the bus station in Skopje is http://www.sas.com.mk/en/. By bus it is about a 3-hour journey and costs about 15 Euros round-trip. The other option is taxi (costs about 65 euros single fare and really recommendable if you travel in a group) or minibuses which function as hybrid between the taxi service and the bus.
Alternatively you can fly to Sofia and then take a taxi to Skopje, It is 4 extra hours though (and some 80 euro). If someone decides on this option, please let us know and we will arrange the taxi for you.
From the US, it is sensible to look for airlines that fly across the Atlantic and also connect to Skopje, e.g. Turkish Airlines (Istanbul), Austrian (Vienna) or Air Serbia (Belgrade).