About EIAT – Regional Conference on Sustainable Tourism, Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development

EIAT
Founded in 2008, EIAT platform stands for Education and Industry Advancing Together with its main mission to create environment for lifelong learning experience in the tourism industry for stakeholders from public and private sector, civil society organizations and academia. With more than 1600 par cipants, 800 students, 150 volunteers and 25 universities from 12 countries in the Central Europe region, EIAT platform is set to gear its program towards 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promotion.

The Center for Tourism Research and Studies
The Center for Tourism Research and Studies is an independent business and research community in the field of sustainable tourism. Since 2008, a team of young people at CTRS have been working closely with other regional and governmental organiza ons and think-tanks throughout the South East Europe region aiming at adop ng guidelines for sustainable tourism and local economic development. Born as a Serbia- based initiative, CTRS steadily grew into a regionally recognized organization with partnerships in 12 countries of the SEE region and strong public, private and academic organizations in its network with a number of projects focusing on sustainable development, tourism product placement and environmental protection.

Future Leaders Forum SEE
Forum is designed to provide budding meeting industry professionals with a packed educational programme includinginspirational sessions from industry experts on key topics, an insightful international and regional overview of themeetings industry, round table discussions for further questions and debates and a chance to network and makevaluable contacts.

EIAT Archive
Today, after the period of 9 years EIAT proved to be a cutting edge educational event with horizontal and vertical partnerships that enabled organizers to address INVESTMENT FORUM as key topic for the future and to structure the Programme with the purpose to bring decision makers and top managers from worlds globally recognized brands to talk about potentials of investing in Serbia and the region.