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COPYRIGHT 2005 Financial Times Ltd.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
Byline: Zuzana HabSudova Spectator staff
The Hotel Sojka is putting the Liptov region on the international tourist map THE relaxed and welcoming atmosphere is apparent as soon as you step in to the Hotel Sojka in Slovakia's mountainous Liptov region.
Instead of a regular reception desk a sign points you to the restaurant where co-owners Gerdi Vanfleteren and his Slovak wife Gabriela are on hand to greet guests with a smile.
"The rule says we have to have a reception desk but to us it was too official.
So, we have one but use it as a sort of store room," says Vanfleteren, a Belgian who came to Slovakia as a bank manager and ended up running this small holiday complex in the tiny village of Malatiny.
The young entrepreneurs decided to leave their jobs at the Dexia bank in Zilina and build the small hotel complex and swimming pool a year and a half ago.
They aim to attract guests from all over Europe, though naturally they concentrated first on attracting Flemish to this picturesque, yet little-known part of Slovakia stretching between the High and Low Tatras....
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