Tourism for Future - Prishtina REA

The CBC Montenegro - Kosovo "Tourism for Future" project aims at contributing to the development of the cross - border sus- tainable tourism through networking, introducing green key and eco standards, improving competitiveness and joint promotion. The two -years project is implemented by Prishtina REA in partnership with IPER, Kolasin Municipality and Gjeravica, and supported by Peja Municipality. The impact is the promotion of the participation of SMEs target- ing EU certification systems, in particular, the EU Ecolabel and EMAS aiming at compliance adaptations necessary to request relevant and achievable internationally recognized certificationschemes.

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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

Increasing sustainable effective management demonstration of the ecotourism system at the cross-bordering area having into consideration environment, socio-economic, quality, health and safety issues, and international Eco labels standard certification and capacities

Increasing the social and economic benefits to the local community and decrease negative impacts, in key terms of employment of local people, supporting local initiatives and opportunities for local entrepreneurs to complement the eco development system

Increasing benefits to cultural heritage, environment, natural heritage, energy, waste, waster, eco-trails, friendly products and interaction between tourists and wildlife as value add to ecotourism and unifying this tourism linkage

Increasing the ICT modernization and interaction to the interaction to the agro food sector international market

Expected Outputs:

Sustainable effective management set promoted, designed and installed to 70 tourisms oriented business

Certification - Eco - friendly international standards process supported, as eco -tourism value new developing concepts (20 tourism - oriented entities certified) and Eco Label Auditing ToT training (15 certified auditors)

Increased awareness of at least 40 hotel businesses in the cross-border region about culture of eco-development system

Developed and installed the cross - regional - sustaining Integrated Tourism and Communication Platform (one joint CBC online Platform

Project Main Activities:

WP1 Project Management and Promotion (R 1, R2, R3, R4, R5)

Act. 1.1. Project setup and mobilisation
Act. 1.2. Communication and Visibility Strategy promotion,information and dissemination
Act. 1.3. Mapping of beneficiaries-analysing their needs for support
Act. 1.4 Define scope of training and standards certification portfolio

WP2 Capacity Building component- sustainable effective management, eco-development
system, Eco label Auditing ToT, Eco-friendly international standards certification, culture
heritage, agro food sector, nature and environment as eco-tourism value (R1, R2, R3)
Act. 2.1 Design and Implement the Training Program-Sustainable Effective Management,
Eco-development system, Eco-friendly international standards
Act. 2.2 Design and implement the mentoring support services
Act. 2.3 Launching the Application call for Eco-Label standard Certification for hotel
Industry and Auditors, selection and implementation separately of Certifications
for Hotels and Auditors
Act. 2.4 Promote good practices of green key and Eco labels to tourism Ecosystem

WP3 Designing and installing the Integrated Tourism and Communication Platform and
implementing the Communication & Visibility Plan (R4, R5)
Act. 3.1 Design and develop the IT Online Communication and Promotion Platform
Act. 3.2 Populate, upgrade and maintain the IT Online Platform

WP4 Promoting cultural heritage and economy & organizing two CB tourism festivals and twoEco-Trails (R5)
Act. 4.1 Organizing the CBC Tourism Festival in Peja and Kolasin
Act. 4.2. Organizing the Eco-trails in Peja and Kolasi

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This publication was co-funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Prishtina REA, Kolasin Municipality, IPER, SH.B. Gjeravica and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.