Project respects the needs in the cultural tourism development of the cross-borde region and supports development of common thematic products focused on history and joint participation in European Union.Regarding the weak awareness of the Europe and even the world importance of the literary work of S. Márai there is a need to realise a project which would support this idea. People like to travel and discover places connected with their favourite writers. They are interested and fascinated when they have the chance to discover and alive places which had a major influence on the writers philosophy. Košice, where the author was born and spent his childhood was a offered a big inspiration for S. Márai and he is granting the city a major importance in his novels that were translated in to 50 languages and are being red all around the world. The project activities strive to interest all target groups of the project local inhabitants, cross-border visitors but before all the abroad tourists. Project aim is to support the development and promotion of the tourism product in Košice. Košice doesn´t have any tourism product of any tourism form yet. The city its self is not being effectively promoted abroad and doesn´t really have a strategy that would be implemented.Culture tourism has a big potential for this city. Budapest can give an example in this case to Košice. Therefore the know-how and experience in developing this tourism form is expected to be transferred from Budapest to Košice. Achievements: The cross-border region of the river basin of the Ipeľ/Ipoly is disadvantaged. The main goal of the development of the area, a noble challenge, is to ensure the efficiency of the economy of the regions and settlements by utilizing the values of both the natural and the built environment, maintaining the balance of the natural environment and technical progress. To this end, the project partners on both sides of the border renovated drainage systems and the system of catchments will be implemented in the settlement, culverts were placed, ditches cleaned and trenches were adjusted. The aim of the project was to avoid the pollution of the Ipeľ/Ipoly river endangering its ecosystem, and to avoid the deterioration of its water quality.