Structure of the department
Head of Department
Ing. Dagmar Baumruková
Section of strategic development
Head of strategic development section
Ing. Jitka Hrádková
Section of European Union funds
Head of the section of European Union funds
Ing. Zuzana Fišerová
Tourism section
Head of tourism section
Ing. Petr Käfer
Where we are located
The Department of Development and Tourism
The Historic Town Hall
Přemysla Otakara II. Square, no. 1 and 2
370 92 České Budějovice
Head of the development and tourism department
2nd floor – office no. 214
Strategic development section
2nd floor – office no. 216 and 215
E.U. funds section
2nd floor – office no. 212 and 213
Tourism section
Entrance no 2, ground floor – office no. 003
2nd floor – office no. 213
Head of department
Ing. Dagmar Baumruková
Phone: +420 386 803 201
e-mail: baumrukova at c-budejovice dot cz
Heads of sections
Head of strategic development section
Ing. Jitka Hrádková
Phone: +420 386 803 208
e-mail: hradkovaj at c-budejovice dot cz
Head of the section of European Union funds
Ing. Zuzana Fišerová
Phone: +420 386 803 204
e-mail: fiserovaz at c-budejovice dot cz
Head of tourism section
Ing. Petr Käfer
Phone: +420 386 803 203
e-mail: kaferp at c-budejovice dot cz (vkaferp at c-budejovice dot cz)' + unescape('%3C') + '/a>';
The scope of department activity
I. Strategic development section:
- Provides an information service – the collection and processing of statistical data (information on the economic basis of the city and partial significant information regarding the city, municipal institutions and citizens);
- Establishes contacts with investors, and arranges their contacts with the municipal government bodies and other institutions within the city boundary;
- Implements the strategic plan of the city and secondary development strategies; it coordinates implementation of individual projects from the strategic plan;
- Is in charge of the marketing of development locations.
- Cooperates in the preparation of city presentations and at the same time participates in such presentations on behalf of the statutory city;
- Prepares specific proposals for investors in cooperation with other departments of the Municipal Authority;
- Is in charge of the marketing of investment projects and the support of small and medium-size businesses with the aim of increasing the competitive strength of the city.
- Commissions, supervises and participates in preparation of designs and studies connected with the development of the city and the implementation of the investment intentions of the city of České Budějovice – prepares data and analyses for qualified decisions of the city government.
- Implements the Programme for Revitalisation of Rural Areas;
- Provides an information service to municipalities in its administrative district as part of the Programme for Revitalisation of Rural Areas;
- Accepts applications within the Programme for Revitalisation of Rural Areas, verifies their completeness and compliance with the programme, and enters the applications into the system;
- Checks the necessary information regarding approved subsidies, the accurateness of issued limiting certificates which it presents to municipalities (receivers of subsidies);
- It checks the allocation of subsidies.
II. Section of European Union Funds:
- Supports obtaining of subsidies by means of an external communication policy focused on the streamlining of information flows towards the key persons involved.
- Prepares, processes and maintains all agenda connected with E. U. programmes, including the submission of projects and applications – it becomes a so-called guarantor of E. U. projects;
- Looks for various national and regional sources of project financing connected with the activity of departments in the Municipal Authority; informs other departments about sources of financing and about deadlines related to them; gathers applications completed by these departments including all supplements; dispatches these applications and their addenda and registers a copy of these.
- Is in charge of general processing of the basic data for the decisions of the Municipal Council regarding participation of the city in subsidy programmes;
- Continuously updates information (possible sources of subsidies, deadlines and conditions).
- Cooperates with all departments and employees of the Municipal Authority, institutions, individuals, legal entities and citizens who participate in specific grant projects.
- Monitors programmes for the intermediation of an influx of direct foreign investments, subsidies, grants and privileged loans which increase the preparedness of the city for new investments.
- Continuously monitors changes in regulations related to state subsidies, investment and non-investment subsidies.
- Processes and evaluates statistical information regarding the participation and degree of success of the town in subsidy programmes.
III. Tourism section:
- Promotes the city by means of editing, publishing and advertising activities.
- Presents the city at fairs and exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad.
- Performs tourism marketing with the aim of developing the tourism in České Budějovice.
- Obtains, evaluates and publishes statistical data regarding tourism in the Czech Republic.
The tourist information centre is in charge of:
1. Information activities:
- A free information service – tourist information (including contacts to Car/Bus/Microbus rental points) and economic information about the city (information about the most important institutions in the city, about companies in České Budějovice and in the Czech Republic in general).
- Development of services towards tourists and other groups.
- Collection of information about the city, culture in České Budějovice and the Czech Republic in general, accommodation and catering facilities in the town and its surrounding area, etc.
2. Mediating activity
- Mediating services for the public (booking of accommodation, catering services and tour guides, sale of entrance tickets and other services)
3. Trading
- The sale of city bus tickets, telephone cards, stamps
- The sale of postcards, maps, brochures, videotapes, souvenirs related to České Budějovice and South Bohemia and other supplementary sale.