1.3 People-To-People Networking

Objectives: Development of bike and wine tourism, building capacity among local stakeholders for the offering of this new type of tourist product and raising awareness among the local population for the opportunities to explore differently the cbc area.

Within the project will be developed 2 studies State of the Art of Bike and Wine Tourism in CBC area identifying local stakeholders in bike and wine tourism and developing bike and wine routes. At two cross-border workshops with local stakeholders these outputs will be further improved and discussed. A guidebook for development of Bike and wine routes will be developed, Video Guide Wine & Bike tourism product produced and the capacity of stakeholders will be improved through 2 trainings - for sommeliership and marketing of tourism products. A travelling workshop for local stakeholders and journalists will build capacity and improve networking for offering of the new tourism product. Bike and wine festival will promote the new developed route and raise awareness.

Expected resuts are: 2 press-conferences, 2 studies developed and 2 cross-border workshops for local stakeholders organised; developed Guidebook and Video guide with 6 short films, 2 trainings for capacity building of local stakeholders, 1 travelling cross-border workshop for discovering of bike and wine tourism, 1 bike and wine festival with 100 participants.

Websites: http://bike-wine.eu
http://rpsd.ngobg.info/
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/rpsd.vidin.3
https://www.facebook.com/evtim.stefanov.5
YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/…/UCOHMXvgxh6I8XhmOhUXchHg/feature

The project aims at preserving the cultural heritage and customs of the cross-border area through joint actions, raising awareness of the impact of culture on the erosion of borders, improving the tourist offer of the cross-border area, raising the capacities of local actors and promoting the tourist offer by maintaining events in the border area.

The main project activities are:

1. Organization of event ''Vurdijada'';
2. Study ''Improvement of tourism potentials in Babušnica and CB area”;
3. Study ,,Future of Vurdijada'';
4. Visibility;
5. Organization of a Final conference.

Project output: “Vurdijada” event held in a new format, a larger number of attendees, greater benefits for local budgets, greater funds for culture and preservation of heritage; two elaborated studies on ''Improvement of tourism potentials in Babušnica and CB area” and ,,Future of Vurdijada''; visibility activities taken and one final conference organized.  

Target Groups    The entire population in the border area, as well as the guests who attended the events. The direct participants in the project realization are the persons who are part of the management team from Municipality of Babušnica and partners from Bulgaria, as well as participants from the field of culture. Long-term beneficiaries of the project will be inhabitants of the cross-border region and local authorities.

Elaborated study ''Improvement of tourism potentials in Babušnica and CB area”

Elaborated study ,,Future of Vurdijada''

Elaborated study for improvement of tourism potentials based on cultural heritage