CENTROPE Regional Development Report. Focus Report on the Service Industry as a Growth Factor in CENTROPE – Executive Summary

This report deals with the structure of the service sector in CENTROPE and compares the supply and demand side of tourism industry and its structure. This part also pays attention to issues of cooperation in tourism within CENTROPE. We find that there are obvious disparities in the development of knowledge intensive services between the urban agglomeration of CENTROPE and its more rural regions. This suggests rather different preconditions for co-operation in this field among regions. Tourism by contrast is an important sector in all regions and provides many possibilities for cross-border co-operation, which are exemplified in the policy conclusions.