Anja Žepič

Anja Žepič has been working at Hostelling International Slovenia since 2004, where she also got full time employment after graduation in 2008. In 17 years she gained rich experience in the fields of youth traveller and youth mobility. She was part of numerous international projects aimed for the youth, which the Popotniško združenje Slovenije participated in. She has contributed many travel articles for the national daily newspaper Večer and the student magazine Spekter. Apart from other work she does at the Hostelling International Slovenia, she has been the editor of the online magazine Globetrotter (which had its fifth year anniversary in 2013), published by the Hostelling International Slovenia, since its first issue. She has managed to achieve a high level of quality for the magazine without extra funding and with a low budget. The most recent edition of the newspaper was sent to over 10.000 e-mails of people subscribing to it, both in Slovenia and worldwide. She is constantly cooperating with similar organizations for all across the globe and follows up to date news in the field of youth tourism as well as having a direct contact with renowned world travellers in order to insure the quality of the articles for the magazine. Based on her experience she directs the contributors of the online magazine to interesting topics they write about.