Project "Development centre for elaboration of effective models for cultural tourism in the region of KAVARNA AND CONSTANTIA" BG2005/017-455.01.03.01.05

Beneficiary: The Town Museum of Kavarna

The project aims to stimulate the development of cultural tourism in the region of Kavarna in Bulgaria and in the region of Constantia in Romania. More precisely the objectives are to stimulate tourist activity, to improve the quality of the tourist product offered, to stimulate the cooperation between the different actors working in the field of tourism, to develop and implement innovative models in the field of cultural tourism.    

The target groups of the project are the tourist organizations and the tourist agencies and companies in the region, museums, experts engaged in cultural heritage preservation actions, tourists, municipalities and district administrations in Kavarna and Constantia regions. 

The key activities of the project included:

• Тhe development of tourist resources – resource package “cultural tourism” and interactive tourist map by making of photo pictures and short movies, gathering the data about each specific site,  gathering of information and making picture records about the tourist infrastructure – paths and routes, WCs, bus stops, nearby hotels and restaurants, local museums and other 
• Functioning information office in the city of Kavarna,  
• Execution of a training course “cultural tourism”, organizing of a three days long Bulgaria-Romania tourist fair ,  
• Development and implementation of effective tourist packages.

As a results of the project tourist agents and other bodies working in the field gained access to needed resources and more concrete to the resource package cultural tourism, museums  in Bulgaria and Romania in the project area – had improved interaction with tourist agents, NGOs working in the fields of cultural tourism and cultural heritage gained access to needed resources and more specifically to the resource package cultural tourism, tourists in Bulgaria and Romania –have the access to cultural tourism in the region with high quality of the offered product. It is printed a tourist guide/brochure, interactive map of the region of Kavarna and Constantia and web site of the project.

The main implementing partner, from the Romanian part, is Museum for National History and Archaeology in Constantia. As an actor for tourism development in the Constantia region they helped the project activities with relevant information and materials and by the engagement of the most qualified tourism experts in the project activities.    

The project has very strong multiplication potential. It is expressed in several ways:

• Use of the project results – the developed resource package, interactive digital map, model package – for the development and implementation of other tourist products. This is one of the key concepts of the project – to create tourist resources which are accessible and easily modified. 
• Offering on the market of various thematic tourist products, based on the developed by the project resources and especially the model package in the field of cultural tourism.  
• As project result there will be grown chances for better and more effective thematic training courses in the field of cultural heritage and deepening of the cooperation between the tourist agents on one side and museums and NGOs on the other.
• Deepening and widening of the cooperation between the Bulgarian and Romanian parties involved in the tourist field and the field of cultural heritage.

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