Vuly Nazim is a PhD student at the Faculty of tourism studies - Turistica. She comes from the Maldives, but lives in Slovenia with her husband and 2-year-old son. During the event she will present two topics: 1) Her PhD research - which focuses on Atmospherics in Hospitality and their impact on guest behavior. 2) Her hotel business, which she runs from Slovenia. She owns a guesthouse with 15 rooms in the Maldives called h78 POAP was distributed to the participants to the online Event.

Dr. Dejan Križaj and his team from the University of Primorska will present the importance of innovation in the tourism industry. This POAP is a digital souvenir for all participants of the event and an innovation itself.

This POAP serves as proof of attendance to the LocalsFromZero startup announcement. The distribution method for the POAP is the Secret Word, which will be revealed at the end of the event. This event is our farewell to the LocalsFromZero brand. We hope that this POAP will be a nice memento of all the achievements and good memories we had with this brand.

POAP (proof of attendance protocol) is a new way of keeping a reliable record of life experiences. Starting a business together is one such experience worth saving in the form of an NFT. With this action, we continue to explore new and innovative technologies and their application to the work and leisure sector - from zero.