Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajić has stated today in Novi Sad that he won’t let our tourism have “the same destiny as Serbian football”, that is, that it boils down only to potential, without results.

“When we talk about football, everyone will say that we have the best talents, but we don’t have the results, and I wouldn’t like our tourism to have the same destiny as our football. I believe that we will know how to use our potential”, says Mr Ljajić, at the opening of the 49th Tourism Fair.

Minister has stated that Novi Sad and Subotica attract 40 per cent of tourists coming to Vojvodina, and announced that the Ministry, together with the Provincial Secretariat for Tourism and local self-governments, will do everything they can to make the potential be used.

“We measure our success by the income we make from tourism and the tourism offers we provide, the number of foreign tourists we are going to attract, and those results have been increasing year by year”, says he.

He has underlined that the Tourism Fair in Novi Sad has been setting new standards in organisation in the recent years, and that this year the atmosphere and the number of people coming here are much better than before.

“All this can indicate that this Fair is becoming a very significant tourist event, beyond the scope of Novi Sad and Vojvodina. It is firmly approaching our Belgrade Fair, but it will need some time for it, which has become a respected international event in this part of Europe”, Mr Ljajić has stated.
This year, the 49th Tourism Fair in Novi Sad, was opened today and will last until October 1, gathering the presenters from the country and the region.

On the first day of the Fair there will be a Tourist Forum of the Balkan Alliance of Hotel Associations (BAHA) in cooperation with the Provincial Secretariat for Economy and Tourism, Fair of Novi Sad and Embassy of Montenegro in the Republic of Serbia.