New Board of Directors appointed for Atlas 20. 05. 2010.

Tomislav Popović is the new Board President for Atlas d.d., while Vlado Lučić and Tomislav Vintar have been named Board members for incoming and outgoing business departments respectively. Tomislav Vintar will also take charge of the development of online sales for adriatica.net Group. Davor Bajić, the erstwhile Board President, will take on the function of head of incoming business department for the Group and continue as General Director at Kompas Croatia.

The appointment of tripartite Board of Atlas d.d. is a logical step towards the integration of operative procedures within Atlas d.d. on the domestic market. This move signifies the realisation of one of the more important elements of the agreed strategy whose goal is to position Atlas as the main exponent of adriatica.net Group’s business in Croatia.

According to the decision brought today by Atlas’ Supervisory Board, Tomislav Popović has been appointed Board President of Atlas d.d. Mr Popović is a tourism expert who was until now the director of Tourist Board of Istrian Region. He built his years-long experience in tourism as Executive Director at Win-Win (management services in hospitality), Executive Operations Director for the Poreč region for Valamar Company and hotel manager at Hotel Kristal in Umag. At the beginning of his impressive career he also worked as junior researcher at the Zagreb Faculty of Tourism.

Vlado Lučić is new Board member in charge of the incoming department. It is interesting that his 35-years long career started right here in Atlas, where he gained experience in various business sectors and positions, such as assistant manager in the operations centre, branch office manager, manager of hotels department, while in 2001 he was appointed the member of executive management of the company. After he left Atlas he became director and co-owner of Adriastar Hotels and Resorts. Well-known for his support of international cooperation and development of global tourism, he performed the duty of vice-president of UHPA and today still actively takes part in a number of international trade organisations. He has been the president of ASTA’s (American Society of Travel Agents) Croatian branch for years now, as well as vice-president of SKAL Club Dubrovnik within SKAL INTERNATIONAL (International Association of Travel and Tourism Professionals) and member of WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council).

The new Board member in charge of the outgoing department and strategic development of online sales for Adriatica.net Group, Tomislav Vintar, is joining Atlas from the position of Board President of Znanje. His work experience includes time at Jupiter Asset Management, where he was responsible for establishing and managing the Mortgage Loans Institution (a financial credit institution), a project involving building of luxury tourist resorts and in FINA (Croatian Financial Agency), in the role of Board member in charge of the commercial market and business development. He co-authored the Croatian government’s projects HITRO.HR and HITROREZ. Between 2001 and 2006 he held the positions of Assembly President and Supervisory Board member at Jadran Kapital investment fund, director at J.E. Austin Associates Inc. and Network Design & NPI Manager at Ericsson Nikola Tesla.

adriatica.net Group developed from the www.adriatica.net online travel agency. First major enlargement happened in 2004, when the agency took over Atlas Airtours, one of the first tour operators in Croatia.

The expansion continued in 2005, when the company entered German, Dutch and Slovenian markets by taking over ID Riva Tours Gmbh, Odisej and Ilirika Turizem travel agencies. A further step towards enlargement of the Group had been made in 2006, when ATLAS Travel Agency and Kompas JSC, present at more than 26 markets, became members of adriatica.net Group.

Jolly Travel, Serbia’s leading tour operator, joined the Group in 2007.

Further information is available through following telephone numbers: 01 2415 601, 091 2638 011, and e-mail address: kristijan.grzetic@adriatica.net (contact person Kristijan Gržetić)