About BTPS

You are welcome at the Bank of Tourism Potentials in Slovenia (BTPS) if you believe in the potentials of tourism in Slovenia!

We invite everyone who has i-deas to offer ("i-deas" because without good ideas tourism is missing the dot on the i). Your "i-dea deposits" in your BTPS bank account help make tourism in Slovenia better, more successful, more original... We welcome tourism potentials at all levels: from the whole country, to an individual destination, to the smallest link in the tourism chain. You are welcome if:

• you are offering your i-deas free of charge or are only asking a symbolic amount for them
• you are asking a commercial price for an i-dea or a share in profits
• you are seeking help in the realisation of your i-dea

We invite everyone who has €-nergy to offer (= financial resources but also material resources and labour). You can make "€-nergy deposits" in your BTPS bank account in order to support originality, excellence and the development of tourism in Slovenia. You are welcome if:

• you are offering donations or €-nergy loans (also interest-free) for the realisation of i-deas.
• you wish to share in the profit from an i-dea whose realisation will be (co-)financed with funds from your €-nergy deposit.

We invite everyone who is looking for i-deas. Owners of bank accounts at the BTPS can take out an "i-dea loan" under prescribed conditions if:

• you are seeking i-deas to improve your tourism product.

We invite everyone who is looking for €-nergy. Owners of bank accounts at the BTPS can take out an "€-nergy loan" under prescribed conditions if:

• you have an unrealised i-dea deposit in your bank account for which you need €-nergy in order to realise it.

Connections between clients and the flow of i-deas and €-nergy among them are monitored by the BTPS. Representatives of the bank decide to accept or refuse deposits and discreetly look for connections between clients. The BTPS operates under the aegis of the Slovenian Tourist Board (STO

The Bank of Tourism Potentials in Slovenia (BTPS) is a project created on the basis of an outline proposal from UP Turistica, College of Tourism (an idea by Dejan Križaj).

The Tourism Directorate at the Ministry of the Economy and the Slovenian Tourist Organisation decided that the self-initiative proposal of project activities to increase the innovative potential of tourism in Slovenia was promising and decided to realise it. The BTPS operates under the aegis of the Slovenian Tourist Organisation and consists of the following bodies.

GOVERNOR
Marjan Hribar, Director General of the Tourism Directorate, Ministry of the Economy

VICE-GOVERNOR
Dimitrij Piciga, Director of the Slovenian Tourist Board

CHAIRMAN OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Dejan Križaj, author of the BTPS idea, UP Turistica – College of Tourism

THE BOARD
Dejan Podgoršek, Slovenian Tourist Board
Livija Kovač Kostantinovič, Slovenian Tourist Board


THE BANK COUNCIL

Helena Cvikl, Director of the College of Catering and Tourism Maribor and lecturer at Turistica, University of Primorska.
Sonja Sibila Lebe, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Maribor, University of Maribor.
Dr Tanja Mihalič, professor of tourism at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana.
Dr Marija Ovsenik, Dean of Turistica - College of Tourism, University of Primorska.
Peter Florjančič, world-class inventor, winner of the IENA international exhibition of innovation in 2006.
Dr Andrej Kitanovski, Director General of the Enterprise and Competition Directorate at the Ministry of the Economy.
Rok V. Klančnik, until recently Director of Communications at the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in Madrid, currently a represntative of Slovenian tourism in Brussels.
Dr Bojan Pretnar, professor of intellectual property and innovation at the Faculties of Economics, Social Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, senior official of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Nenad Savič, expert in the sphere of guaranteeing business excellence and the intoduction of strategies and renovation of business processes.
Branko Marinič, author and co-author of numerous realised ideas in the sphere of tourism product design.
Božidar Špan, Chairman of the Management Board of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank.