National Tourist Association was founded in 1993 as a non-governmental and non-profit organization with the aim to promote tourism as a strategic development opportunity for Slovenia. Since then, NTA has been accelerating the development of profession, knowledge and use of modern technology for reaching competitive advantage and excellence in tourism. Moreover, NTA is developing a dialogue in favour of tourism with Slovene economy, government and politics, setting up international standards and criteria at the EU level and has been active in international economic and professional collaboration. NTA is currently involved in several European projects in the field of competitiveness, sustainability and quality in tourism, development of cultural and accessible tourism in Slovenia and Europe. The company also regularly publishes NTA E-News, organizes annual national competition ‘Youth for Tourism’ and is engaged in providing expert consulting and research in the field of tourism.

The Faculty for Commercial and Business Sciences was founded by the education company Abitura d.o.o. Celje. At that time it was called the Celje School for Commerce. FCBS implements quality undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, all internationally comparable and recognised, with accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology. Quality and diversity of their offer are improving each year. Their current higher education programmes in Commerce, Business Informatics and Tourism, and their postgraduate programme in Commerce, will soon be joined by new postgraduate programmes from the fields of Tourism and Business Informatics. Faculty actively co-operates with students’ potential employers in Slovenia and higher education institutions in the EU and in other countries. In the future it aims to become one of the leading private schools of commerce in Slovenia and to be recognised as one of the best in Europe.

Manova GmbH is an Austrian market research company with more than 10 years of experience in tourism. Based in Vienna, the company supplies its customers with a comprehensive range of services, ranging from the realisation of intelligent market research to the development of internet-based management information systems. Furthermore, they support customers in strategic marketing issues and carry out training and practice courses on this topic. In this way, their customers are provided with a complete product– from successful analyses to specifically recommended courses of action.

SOMNIUM is a consulting firm specializing in formulation, development and implementation of concepts, strategies and planning of tourist activity carried out at all levels of development, from local communities to broader destinations. They are experts in developing standards for hotels and other tourism companies. Besides that, they provide consultancy service in the field of financial management, marketing, business management and writing business plans. Their studies are made in accordance with EU standards and regulations and can serve as a basis for taking out commercial loans or as an annex to the applications for EU funds and other financing programmes.