After the 1^st International Congress on the Regional Tourism Cooperation in Southeast Europe, held in Portorož, from 11-13^th June 2010, and organized by the company Športni turizem Portorož and SACEN Internacional, the first international tri-partite agreement in the field of tourism was signed.

Expressing their readiness to contribute, in line with the leitmotif of the congress, to creating a new tourist destination – Southeast Europe, President of the Skopje University of Tourism and Management, Professor Ace Milenovski, PhD, then Mladen Sredojević, CEO of Športni turizem Portorož, and Dragan Gligorijević, President of SACEN Internacional, signed a single Agreement on Scientific, Education and Student Exchange Cooperation, as the corner-stone of a long-term and successful regional cooperation in tourism.

That is how the agreement signers, including all attendants at the Congress gathered from most former Yugoslav countries, shifted the focus from the once story about unity to a new story acceptable to all about the equal cooperation in the interest of the entire tourist region.