The Government will create conditions for developing the tourism and hotel industry with the objective to increase the share of this economic sector in generation of the nation’s gross domestic product. In this connection it will establish a special ‘satellite account’ of tourism with the objective of quantifying its real results and its contribution to the gross domestic product.
The Government shall determine the principles for the State policy of development of tourism as an area of public interest, emphasising the support of the development and significance of domestic and incoming foreign tourism. The Government shall re-evaluate the Strategy of Development of Tourism of the Slovak Republic until 2013 and prepare comprehensive legislation for securing implementation of the State policy with regard to the development of tourism, taking into consideration the institutionalisation of this sector.
The Government shall support, by means of motivating economic and financial instruments, investments into tourism, into the hotel industry, as well as entrepreneurial entities focusing on incoming tourism, with the objective to increase the quality and comprehensive scale of offered services.
The Government will create a system of financial support of activities of self-governing bodies, municipalities, towns and business entities, also with the help of EU Structural Funds, when developing the fundamental forms of tourism. These include town and cultural tourism, the spa industry, winter recreational centres, the year-round use of high mountainous areas, summer recreational centres and rural tourism.
The Government will support the acceleration of the tasks connected with the new zoning of protected areas. This should ensure the compatibility of maintaining the objectives of nature protection as well as fostering entrepreneurial activities focused on development of tourism, and at the same time preservation of natural and cultural values of the protected areas for future generations.
