STA, 3 June 2022 - The new government appointed Maja Pak the director of the Slovenian Tourism Board (STO) for a five-year term on Friday. Pak is returning to the helm of the STO after stepping down as director in November 2021 due to disagreements with the then economy minister, Zdravko Počivalšek.
Pak will take up her post on Monday for a full five-year term, said the Government Communication Office after the first correspondence session of the Robert Golob government.
At today's meeting, the STO council took a decision to nominate Pak as STO director. The current acting STO director, Ilona Stermecki, is due to leave office on Sunday.
Pak has many years of experience in tourism, both in the private tourism sector and in successfully leading the STO for more than eight years, the press release reads.
She first headed the organisation between 2010 and 2012, after which the STO was merged with a number of other state agencies to form the public agency SPIRIT Slovenija.
She took over the leadership of the tourism board for the second time after it became a separate institution again in 2015.
In March last year, the Janez Janša government reappointed Pak as STO director for another five-year term, but only months later, in mid-November, she resigned citing diverging views on the ways of running the organisation between her and Počivalšek. The government then appointed Stermecki as interim head.
The newspaper Dnevnik has recently reported that both Pak and Stermecki had applied for the top STO post. The two had confirmed this for the paper.
