Nis City Deputy Mayor Milos Prof. Banđur met with the Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Nis Prof. Jadranka Djurovic Todorovic together with a team of students from the faculty, who won first place in the regional finals of one of the most important and largest global student competition – Loreal Brendstorm.  The meeting was also attended by the Head of the Youth Office Stevan Zivkovic and the Secretary of the City of Nis Assembly Ruzica Djordjevic.

Aleksandar Djordjevic, Novak Stamenkovic and Jelena Todorović make the team called Stilistiko who will, along with colleagues from Croatia, present their innovative projects in the world finals in Paris. With the aim to attract as many young innovators from different fields, Loreal Brendstorm has prepared two competition categories: BRAND CHALLENGE – for students of economics, marketing and communication, the winner of which was the team from Nis and technological challenge for future engineers, and students of the faculties of technical sciences, the winner of which was team GRUM from Croatia.

The deputy mayor gave as the present the laptops to the students and wished them every success in the finals of this competition.

In the first quarter of this year (January-April), there was an increase in the number of tourists in Nis by 39 % compared to the same period last year, of which as much as 50 %more are foreign tourists, while the number of domestic tourists increased by 31 %.

The total number of overnight stays for the same period this year increased by 22%. Of these, the number of overnight stays of foreigners increased by 35 %, while the number of domestic tourists staying overnight increased by 12%

The continuation of the positive trend is expected as well as the increase in numbers of those who see Nis as an interesting destination. In the coming period the promotion of Nis as a tourist destination will be continued at the Days of Serbia in Timisoara, and then within the My Serbia Campaign during June and July, and at the Days of Serbia to be held in Thessaloniki on July 12^th.

During June Tourist Organization of Nis together with the Airline Ryanair will implement a joint campaign via the company’s website for a period of three weeks and in the countries where the company has direct flights from the Nis airport and thus trying to attract even more tourists to Nis.