Timespan: 24/10/2019 – 24/07/2020
Donor: RCC – Reginal Cooperation Council (“Support to the implementation of the RCC Triple-P Tourism in SEE: Promotion, Policy, and Pilots Grants Work Programme”)
Applicant: Local Democracy Agency Niksic (Montenegro)
Partners: LDA Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Zavidovići (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Subotica (Serbia); LDA Knjaževac (Serbia); LDA Kosovo (*Kosovo); ALDA Skopje (North Macedonia)
Project Description:
The core activities of the proposed action are aimed to help create preconditions for new tourism product development to increase youth employment and income generating activities through engaging micro-localities, youth greeters and creative writers (and/or vloggers) in regional co-operation programme. Capacity building for LDA greeters and vloggers, professional tour guide skills development exercise, field visit and learning by doing approach are all intended to contribute to the overall objective with specific focus on activities designed to engage youth from local communities in regional intercultural exchange programme to work together on a new tourist product development.
Overall objective: Help create preconditions for new tourism product development to increase youth employment and income generating activities through engaging micro-localities, youth greeters and vloggers in regional co-operation programme
Specific objective(s):
– develop youth friendly innovative promotional actions to provide orientation and publicise the narrative of the nine magnificent monuments from the WW2.;
– create youth friendly online platform to present sites, locations and heritage
– develop regional pilot youth intercultural exchange programme including exploration, storytelling, digitalisation of the new cultural tourism product: Monumental 9;
– help increase attractiveness for tourist development and income generating activities at micro-localities;
Activities are divided into 4 working packages (WP):
WP1 Capacity building and Training Manual for LDA greeters/vloggers;
WP2: Desk research, establishment of the online platform: Balkan Monumental 9 Trail;
WP3: Three (3) field pilot tours to create the Monuments’ narrative and virtual tour;
WP 4: Local/Regional visibility activities, co-ordination and preparation of closing event Trebjesa Niksic, to adopt the regional Network’s follow-up action plan.
Expected results:
Target groups: Local CSOs, CSO thematic networks, Youth practitioners, local/national public authorities’/government bodies, media
Beneficiaries: educational/ cultural institutions, youth groups, tourist associations, SMEs, 9 local communities, population at large
IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES: