
Published at Wednesday, August 9, 2023 7:00 AM
Tourism for Future – Our Story
Tourism for Future” a two- year project, is implemented by Prishtina REA in partnership with IPER Institute, Kolasin Municipality and Gjeravica- Mountaineering Association from Peja, and supported by Peja Municipality, is financed by the Cross Border Cooperation Montenegro- Kosovo, financed by European Union (CBC programme), through the contract no: CFCU.MNE.234, dated 15 June 2023 – “Tourism for Future”, The CBC Montenegro-Kosovo "Tourism for Future" project aims at contributing to the development of the cross-border sustainable tourism through networking, introducing green key and eco standards, improving competitiveness and joint promotion. The impact is the promotion of the participation of SMEs targeting EU certification systems, in particular, the EU Ecolabel and EMAS aiming at compliance adaptations necessary to request relevant and achievable internationally recognized certification schemes
- The cross-border cooperation between Kosovo and Montenegro “Tourism for Future” project, a European-based tailored practice, seeks to promote the Eco-labels and sustainable tourism management, increase their internal capacity skills, knowledge, values, learning transfer and management mindset, that, as local ownership consolidated, will be able to administer and gain the Eco-label standard certification through the recognised internationally accredited auditing.
- To maintain, develop, update and expand it, there will be built locally auditing Eco-label standards resource capacities, certified by the internationally accredited level.
- To valorise, multiply, network and internationalise, the Online Communication and Promotion Platform is to be developed and disseminated widely by tourism stakeholders and networks, and at the hand, handover to local direct beneficiaries.
- To make the direct beneficiaries practice sustainably the Eco labels standards, benefits, contribution and growth, the linkages with cultural heritage, artisans, handicraft, local traditional producers etc, there will be organized the Tourism cross-border Festivals and Eco-Trails to make them work, live and growth sustainably together as a value chain system ensuring repeating and expanding it widely and producing long-term impact.
- Tourism stakeholders, local municipal administration, cultural heritage, artisans, handicraft, local producer, tour operators, and then, tourists, visitors and investors will benefit and enjoy the impact generated.
- The cross-regional-transnational networks-routs