DanubEco (ROBG-164)
Danube Ecotourism
What’s the goal?
To support the development of the administrative capacity of public administration to pursue social and environmental public policy goals by eco-tourism development in the cross-border area.
What’s the budget?
735,766.45 euro, out of which 625,401.46 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): Access For All Association (Romania)
Beneficiary (B2): Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment - MEBE (Romania)
Beneficiary (B3):Ministry of Tourism (Bulgaria)
Beneficiary (B4): Human Resources Development Agency (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 23.08.2017
End date: 22.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Constanta, Romania
Ruse, Bulgaria
How?
- Project management;
- 6 joint cross-border training sessions on sustainable tourism criteria and certification;
- 6 joint cross-border training session on sustainable tourism destination management;
- 4 joint cross-border training sessions on using eco-tourism handbooks for helping private tourism operators to develop and market their offer;
- 6 joint cross-border training session on the development of sustainable tourism infrastructure;
- 4 joint cross-border training sessions on the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatory (ies) of the World Tourism Organization and on the sustainable tourism indicators system;
- 2 familiarization-trips of the newly trained Danube officers in the CBC area;
- Study on the identification of legal barriers for the development of essential tourism infrastructures in the RO-BG CBC area: greenways, piers, observation infrastructure, etc.
- Lower Danube Green Tourism web-portal;
- Study on a cross-border statistics system for sustainable tourism in support of the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatories;
- Develop 10 cross-border Danube sustainable tourism products
- Creation of an informal „Natural landscape protection partnership”and cross-border landscape contest;
- 2 press conferences for presenting the results of the project;
- Creation of the cross-border ecotourism experts network – Association;
- Fam-trips of tourism journalists in the CBC area (2)
- Conference on eco-tourism in the ROBG cross-border area
- Communication and visibility
Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs:
- 3 supported cross border mechanisms to enhance cooperation capacity
Programme results:
- increase in the level of co-ordination of the public institutions in the eligible area
Project status
The project is finalized.
- 26 trainings in the tourism field were organized. The target group represented by 283 Romanian and Bulgarian participants was reached.
- Two Fam-trips of tourism journalists in the CBC area were organized by B4 during the period 04-06.10.2018 (17 participants) and during the period 14-16.10.2018 (25 participants).
- Study on the identification of legal barriers for the development of essential tourism infrastructures in the RO-BG CBC area was elaborated and it is available on the web platform.
- Study on a cross-border statistics system for sustainable tourism in support of the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatories was elaborated and it is available on the web platform.
- 10 touristic products were elaborated and are available on the web platform.
- Lower Danube Green Tourism web-portal which provides also information about the project, at www.danube-ecotourism.com.
