New Challenges of SMEs through Clusters Creation in Slovakia

Travel industry, it is not an integrated sector in Slovakia with measurable inputs and outputs in the system of national accounting like agriculture, construction industry etc., but it is the conglomerate of products and activities from various areas that mean travel industry is a sector influenced by other areas as regional development, healthcare, culture, education, sport, forestry and environment protection. That is why the Travel industry is not acting on vertical line but horizontal which mean it could include various problems which could be solved only by cooperation. Travel industry clusters are therefore everywhere in the World, Europe and Slovakia, too. In these subjects we could find typical vacation destination as Spain, Italy or Portugal, but very important subjects within clusters we could find also in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia. Clusters are supported by number of policies and initiatives within the EU countries because of their synergy effect and increased productivity of enterprises joined within clusters. To support individual enterprise with potential to create a clusterneeds careful identificationof their potential and potential of regions for smart specialization connected with cluster. For appropriate cluster identification, we have opportunity to use various methods, quantitative and qualitative, too. We have mainly focused on quantitative methods with the perspective to directly determinate achieved outcomes. Our objective in this this paper was to find possibilities of cluster creation and their identification in the areaSlovak eight regions. With this aim were haveused Location Quotient. Statistical data has been provided from statistic database and they were compared then with the real clusters operating in selected 8 regions within area of Slovakia. Identification of the economic perspectives of travel industry clusters in regions is the precondition of the originality of this paper as the starting point for formation of clusters and cluster initiatives within these individual regions of Slovakia.