| Project funding | EU |
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| Project website | N/A |
| Programme website | Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro |
| Contribution to the Programme’s specific objective | The quality and diversification of the tourism offer building on natural and cultural heritage is improved |
| Project start date | 02.12.2019 |
| Project end date | 31.01.2022 |
| Project total budget | EUR 499,654 |
| 0Project EU funding | EUR 399.654 |
| Description | Overall objective: To contribute to increased number of tourists and visitors in Pluzine and Foca. Specific objective: To create an integrated cross-border tourist destination, internationally recognisable for active tourism. Planned activities: Activity 1: Joint branding and marketing (Branding of a crossborder area as a joint tourism destination; Organising familiarization trips with tour operators; Engaging international journalists to write affirmative articles in key tourist newspapers and blogs; Digital marketing; joint presentation at tourism fairs); Activity 2: Joint tourist/sport manifestations (Organising Joint tourist festivals and cross-border sports manifestations); Activity 3: New tourist products (Development of joint day and multiday tourism products; and Linking active tourism with rural households); Activity 4: Small-scale tourism infrastructure (Building platforms for rafting at the descending and arrival points; Building sightseeing points, benches and tourist fare points on the Tara Canyon; Building a floating platform on a Piva Lake; Building new tourist products: Animal watching platforms (bears, birds, chamois); Building Rock climbing routes, Caving paths and Via Ferrata trails). Activity 5: Safety on tourist destinations (coordination of rescue services from two sides of the border; Developing joint safety procedures; Organising joint emergency drills and rescue exercises; Purchase of rescue equipment for Pluzine); Activity 6: Project Visibility (Press conferences; Foca-Pluzine Cross-border Forum meetings; Promotion in media, social networks, tourist forums, policy community, local communities) |
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| Expected results | Expected results: R1: Cross-border area two municipalities branded as a single destination for active tourism R2: Joint cross-border tourism products developed R3: Small-scale tourism infrastructure improved R4: Established functional mechanism for increasing safety on tourist locations in cross-border areas of targeted municipalities |
| Expected outputs | N/A |
| Lead partner | Institution name:Pluzine Municipality Country: Montenegro Address:Plužine,Trg Plužina br 4 Website: https://www.pluzine.me/ Legal status: Public |
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| Partner | Institution name: Centre for Sustainable Tourism Initiatives Country: Montenegro Address: Plužine, Baja Pivljanina bb Website:https://www.parkpiva.com/ Legal status: Public |
| Partner | Institution name:Municipality Foča Country:Bosnia and Herzegovina Address: Foča,Kralja Petra I Karađorđrvića br 1 Website:https://www.opstinafoca.rs.ba/ Legal status: Public |
| Partner | Institution name:Tourist ogranisation of Foca Municipality Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Address: Foča, Njegoševa bb Website: https://focaravajuce.org/en/ Legal status: Public |