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PROJECT „SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT - ASSET CROSS-BORDER COHESION AND PROSPERITY“, REF. NO CB006.1.22.122

Budget of the project: 118 812.25 EUR

  • Budget of Lead partner – 61 233.71 EUR
  • Budget of Partner – 57 578.54 EUR

Term of the contract: 15 months

Duration: 18.10.2016 – 17.01.2018

Cover regions: Blagoevgrad District, Bulgaria and East Region of Macedonia

General objective:

Strengthening cross-border cooperation between people and institutions in the region to co-address common challenges and exploit the untapped potential for sustainable tourism development in the cross-border region.

Specific objectives:

Using the opportunities of ICT to promote the types of tourism products and services offered in the region to achieve a balanced development of year-round tourism.

 

Targeted actions to impact on the socio-economic development of the region through joint efforts of stakeholders and networking.

Target groups:

Tourism companies, tour operators and tourist information centers (TICs), local authorities, representatives of SMEs operating in the tourism and service of tourist flow, NGOs, representatives of cultural institutions / museums, galleries etc / and craftsmen, mass media.

Planned activities:

Activity 1 – Establishment of a joint database of tourism trails

Activity 2 – Establishment of a joint on-line platform

Activity 3 – Organization of training and workshop 

Activity 4 – Organization of Webinar for work with the platform

Activity 5 – Development of two joint tourist routes

Activity 6 – Training of guides and animators in tourism

Activity 7 – Organization of tourism forums

Activity 8 – Promotional campaigns

Planned outputs:

  • Established database of the offered tourist routes and sites in the Blagoevgrad District, Bulgaria and the Eastern region of Macedonia;
  • Established an online platform for visualization of tourist sites and routes;
  • Shared management of the on-line platform between organizations from Bulgaria and Macedonia;
  • Developed two regional tourist routes with a promotional video and digital walk;
  • Organized two regional tourism forums and involved more than 100 representatives from the target groups of the project;
  • Organiszed training, webinars and seminars in the field of tourism networking, ICT use for sustainable tourism development, entrepreneurship support, and training of tour guides with more than 170 participants involved.

Project partners

Lead partner /PP1/

Partner 2 /PP2/

In Focus Association

Leshki Association

Republic of Bulgaria

FYRO Macedonia (Republic of Macedonia)

Blagoevgrad District

East Region

2825 Strumyani

2330 Berovo

Phone: +359 888 208 308

Pirinska 22, Berovo

E-mail: nafocu.strumyani@gmail.com

Phone: + 389 70 312 377

website: www.nafocus.eu

E-mail: dkalamadevski@gmail.com

Watch video conference presentation of tourist routes Razlog – Berovo

Watch closing conference BG part I

Watch closing conference BG part II

Watch MK closing conference

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The INNOBUS project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and by national funds of the countries participating in INTERREG V-A “Greece-Bulgaria 2014-2020″Cooperation Programme.

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