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Innovation in Rural Tourism in the

Carpathians and other mountain areas

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Project background – the problem

• Lack of knowledge about

valorisation, entrepreneurship,

management, promotion of tourism

resources, New Media

• Lack of specified vocational

educational training (VET)

opportunities.

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• DDDDeveloping and testing eveloping and testing eveloping and testing eveloping and testing a set of tools for community tourism planning

• TTTTraining raining raining raining of selected opinion leaders to act as multipliersmultipliersmultipliersmultipliers

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Geographical focus

• the AlpsAlpsAlpsAlps

• the ApenninesApenninesApenninesApennines

• the CarpathiansCarpathiansCarpathiansCarpathians

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Pilot Areas

• AT: Nationalpark Kalkalpen Region Ennstal & Steyrtal

• RO: Dorna country

• PL: Beskidy mountain range

• UA:

– Storozhynestky rayon, Chrnivtci oblast

– Kosiv district

• IT: Parco Dell’Aveto, Ligurian Apennines

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� IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (AT)

� SOPHIA Research & Innovation (IT)

� Bournemouth University (GB)

� Associazione Seed (CH)

� EURAC - European Academy of Bolzano (IT)

� UNEP Vienna Interim Secretariat of Carpathian Convention (AT)

� ROMONTANA - National Association for Mountains Rural Development (RO)

� Ecopsychology Society (PL)

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Background and context analysis

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Involvement of target groups

• Community consultations

• Train the trainers (opinion leaders)

• 2 face-to-face training

• on-line training

Opinion leaders

> 15

Opinion leaders

> 15

• Pilot Trainings

Tourisminnovators > 60

Tourisminnovators > 60 • Development of local

tourism products

• Local sustainable tourism strategy/ implementation plan

Trained communities

Trained communities

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Learning tools

• Digital tools and learning contents - Open Source

• Pedagogical model for local tourism developers

• mApp

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Next Steps & Cooperation

• Finalization of the pilot testing

• Transferability Manual produced

• Networking conference Networking conference Networking conference Networking conference

Vienna, Austria, 15 July 2015

• Final Conference in PolandFinal Conference in PolandFinal Conference in PolandFinal Conference in Poland

– October 2015

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Follow-up

• Transfer of the InRuTou training to all Carpathian countries

– Other regions of Poland, Romania, Ukraine

– Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Slovak Republic

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Follow-up …

• Involve

– Protected areas (CNPA, WWF)

– Cultural Heritage

– Youth involvement and participation

– Education and training

– Research (S4C)

• Build on other projects:

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