A kick-off meeting for the S.LI.DES project - Smart Strategies for Sustainable Tourism in Lively Cultural Destinations within the INTERREG Italy - Croatia program, was held in Ca 'Foscari University from 4th to 5th July 2019 in Venice. It was attended by Ph.D. Sanda Čorak, representing the Institute for Tourism, which is a project partner. The main objective of the S.LI.DES. project is to achieve sustainable competitiveness of the selected destinations using a methodology that would analyze and manage the movement of visitors in the destination and preserve and valorize cultural heritage and local identity at the same time. The meeting, which brought together 11 project partners from Croatia and Italy, presented work packages and discussed the responsibilities of project partners in the next reporting period.