Tourist accommodation facilities recorded nearly 337,400 arrivals and just over 841,400 nights in March, up 21.6% and 17.6%, respectively, in a year. Tourists most often spent the night in the municipalities of Ljubljana, Piran and Bled, while the largest numbers of tourists visited municipalities with spas, Statistics Office data shows.

The newspaper Primorske Novice is critical in Thursday's commentary of the situation on the real estate and rent market in Slovenia, saying that the party which talks the most about housing issues has disappointed its voters the most.

The newspaper Delo welcomes on Thursday AirBaltic's launch of flights between Ljubljana and the Latvian capital Riga, noting that next week Norwegian will launch flights to Copenhagen. This is good news for Ljubljana airport, Delo says, urging citizens to fly from Brnik more often.

The Japanese robotics company Yaskawa has laid the foundation stone for two new facilities next to its existing plant in Kočevje. With the EUR 32 million investment the company is expanding its activity in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said Yaskawa Europe Robotics director Hubert Kosler.

The government adopted on Wednesday a regulation designating a degraded zone in Celje that is known as the old zinc factory and setting down measures to fully clean it up, the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy said after the government session.

The SID Banka national export and development bank generated a net profit of EUR 15.6 million last year, which is 90% more than in 2022, while loans to the non-banking sector increased by 3% to EUR 1.43 billion, SID Banka reported on Wednesday.

Big cap stocks had a mixed day on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange on Wednesday. While drug maker Krka and insurance stocks lost ground, NLB bank and energy group Petrol ended in the black. Volumes reached EUR 1.7 million.