Zborník - Mesto Nitra

1. INTRODUCTIONThe main aim of the international conference from cycle of two conferences realisedwithin a project “Support of tourism activities in the city of Nitra“, which was co-financed byERDF – EU funds was to develop and promote cooperation in tourism development.The level of cooperation in field of tourism has several dimensions, which conferencedeal with. The first day of the conference the partner cities were presented (Croatia, CzechRepublic, Serbia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the section called “News in tourism frompartner cities”. Based on these contributions, there was a debate, where the concretepossibilities of cooperation of Nitra and partner cities were solved, the practical experienceswere presented and new Destination Management Organisation “Nitra Tourism Board” wasintroduced. Partner cities were presented tourist packages which they prepared for visitorsfrom Nitra. Nitra tourist board and Nitra City presented tourist packages of services whichthey prepared for Nitra visitors especially from partner cities.The second day of the conference was devoted to the topics such as destinationmanagement and its operation, development of incoming tourism, cooperation between theprivate and public sectors as well as cooperation at national and regional level. Also thepractical experiences of existing organisations in the presence of representatives of state andlocal governments, universities and schools, organisations involved in tourism and culture andrepresentatives of businesses involved tourism services were presented.The third day of the conference it was held workshop for employers of the Departmentof promotion and tourism and representatives of partner cities, where they were talking aboutconcrete possibilities of cooperation, specific product packages for individual cities and targetgroups.41