In Summer 2006, Mrs. Tatjana Drakula-Medenica has been appointed in a public tender as Director of RTO. Mrs. Drakula-Medenica has been involved in regional tourism activities for the last ten years, both as representative of the National Tourism Organization and national project manager of the Austrian-Montenegrin cooperation project in the Bjelasica & Komovi region.

Consultant for project development with the emphases on South Eastern Europe; long term professional experience in Montenegro with the professional background of regional development and space planning

emphases of work:

• Regional development programs
• project development and management for protected areas
• training programming and education for national park/nature guides,
• project development and consultancy of direct marketing for farming products.

More than 25 years of experience in administrative capacity building, integrated development and environmental policy making in Africa, Asia and Europe. Working experience in Eastern European countries especially in environmental planning, training of staff and implementation of EU-structural funds and cohesion funds in Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Montenegro.

Main fields of consultancy: business cluster and network development, inter-organisational cooperation, strategic development, evaluation of regional development programs, team coaching, facilitation of projects and wholescale group events. Professional experience in Germany, Bulgaria and Brazil.

long-term professional experiences as consultant and coach in tourism development; project director of the first phase of the Austrian Montenegrin partnership program for Bjelasica & Komovi 2004 – 2006.

Karl Reiner is specialised in programming, implementation and evaluation of national, transnational and EU structural funds. By means of workshops, lectures, advice, feasibility studies, coaching and project management he is helping enterprises and motivating people in regions to develop tourism and regional projects.

Consultant for tourism and regional development.

Fields of specialization: Hiking, Mountain biking and Outdoor tourism. Since first phase member of the project management team.