Hotel M was the host of the International Conference on Wellness and Medical Tourism organised by the Centre for Promotion of Wellness & Spa (CPSW), Belgrade Chamber of Commerce and the Club of Economic Journalists. The conference was dominated by topics which could be collectively titled “Trends and challenges of the wellness and medical tourism”, such as “Development of the medical tourism in Serbia”, “Marketing strategies and management in the wellness and medical tourism”, “Quality standards and concept of wellness hotels”, etc. In addition to experts from Serbia, there were guests from Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. The conference entailed prize awarding as well:

– the award “First Tourist Star” went to hotel Orašac in Belgrade, Tourist Organization of Belgrade for the book “Foreigners in Belgrade” and the editorial staff of the magazine Tourist World for the monograph “The Royal Spas of Serbia”.

– the award “Wellness Award 2009“ went to Alex Company, Thera-Band Academy, Spa Centre Five Elements, hotel Life Design in Belgrade, Jugohemija-Farmacija d.o.o., Solution d.o.o., Simpo A.D., TV programme U trendu, health centre Stari Grad, Jelena Tričković and water “Rosa”.

The tourist journalist of the year is Jovan Vučković from Radio Beograd 2 and Jelena Tomašević is the Wellness Person of the year.