Portorož, Slovenia, 23 February. EMUNI University prepared a round table on the topic »Challenges of tourism in the Euro-Mediterranean Region« at its seat in the frame of the 'EMUNI label' master study programme Euro-Mediterranean Studies, which is attended by 20 students from 9 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean.

The round table was attended by the students and visiting professors and other speakers: Dr. Touhami Abdouli (Univerisity of Sousse, Tunisia), Dr. Velvet Nelson (Sam Houston State University, USA), Dr. Cosimo Notarstefano (Euro-Mediterranean Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Italy) Dr. Živa Čeh (University in Primorska, Slovenia) and Dr. Lučka Lorber (University in Maribor, Slovenia).

The participants discussed the opportunities and problems of tourism in the Euro-Mediterranean region and they highlighted the issue of the Mediterranean as a brand, high prices in relation to tourist destinations in the East and focus on one type of tourism in comparison to integrated tourist offers. As possible solutions they offered stress on forming unified strategies for broader regions, unique offers and linking more tourist destinations. They also discussed the tourist offer at the Slovenian coast, where they stressed lack of identity, inconsistency of the tourist offer and lack of cooperating with destination form other parts of Slovenia. They also highlighted the importance of environment, sustainable development, good management and quality of life as basic factors by good tourist development planning.