Legends, a path to more attractive tourist destination

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Romania - Bulgaria

Date of latest update: 2023-06-29

Description

Description (EN):

The project “Legends, a path to more attractive tourist destination” aims at improving the touristic attractiveness of the targeted area (Dolj, Olt, Mehedinti, Montana, Vidin and Vratsa) by identifying, saving, preserving and promoting inestimable pieces of immaterial heritage, local legends, with the goal of improving the sustainable use of natural heritage and resources and cultural heritage. The project tackles a series of problems either identified by programme documents, or from the feed-back received by the Touristic Information Centre which is managed by Forever for Europe Association in Craiova since May 2016: a low level of development of the tourism sector in the targeted area, despite its importance for the general development of the region; the seasonality of the tourism sector; the high volatility and variability of overnights spent; the low level of attractiveness of the targeted region for youth generation when considering a touristic activity. All these problems are obstacles for the tourism sector to truly contribute to the general development of the target area. The project proposes three specific objectives (SO) to promote more sustainable use of Dolj, Olt, Mehedinti, Vidin, Vratsa and Montana districts natural heritage and resources and cultural heritage, thus also improving the tourism in the eligible area: SO1: Collecting the local legends related to natural heritage and resources and cultural heritage from the targeted CBC area, with the potential of becoming sustainable touristic attractions and illustrate them through graphical representation. SO2: Improving the level of attractiveness of cross-border tourism through the development of 2 common tourism products, namely Legendary Map (paper version and e-map together with the explanatory catalogue) and Legendary Camp (common event dedicated to pupils and teachers). SO3: Increasing the number of tourists in the targeted area by promoting the sustainable use of common heritage in terms of local legends through distribution of the touristic materials developed, elaborating and broadcasting of the video production and organizing the Legendary Camp for 240 pupils and 48 teachers. The project directly contributes to the achievement of the Output indicator I9 - Number of integrated tourism products/services created = 2, namely Legendary Map and Legendary Camp. The Legendary Map will consist of a printed map with the target area where the places related to legends will be marked by suggestive drawings. The map will be a very useful product for the people travelling in the area and will stimulate them to visit the respective places. The map will be completed by an interactive version of it and by an explanatory catalogue, detailing the storied behind the legendary places. The Legendary Camp will be a multi-day type of event, created especially for pupils, accompanied by teachers, where they will discover the territory of the target area through the legends. The participants will be involved in activities such as listening and telling stories, watching movies, fun activities and visiting legendary places. By using the legends as a tourist resource, we are going to tackle all the problems previously identified: - creating 2 new and attractive tourism products, the number of tourists will rise in the region, contributing to the general development of the area. The products being mainly targeted to the children and youth, the development will be a long term, sustainable one. - the tourism products created is year-round and the sites related to the legends will be visited any time during the year, combating the current seasonality of the tourism in the area. - the project will promote the leisure tourism and a special type of event (Legendary camp) which will tackle the current focus on business and transit tourism, increasing the intensity of tourism activities. - the low level of touristic attractiveness of the targeted area will be tackled through the increase of the awareness about the tourist potential through more attractive way - through the legends for the sites in the target area. The pupils will be the main project target group because they represent the future for the development of both regions. Having a cross border approach in tackling the problems will have a twofold impact: encouraging the intra-region tourism (people from targeted districts, which have low levels of income, to travel for short distances and discover unknown places with a story behind), but also exploiting the great potential to develop joint tourism attractions for foreign tourists (foreign tourists will be more interested in discovering places and legends from the larger territory on each side of Danube). The approach taken by the present project proposal is innovative by the subject (it creates stories which will raise the level of interest for the children and youth to travel in the region), by the implementation method (the legends will be graphically represented through drawings, which will stimulate people to travel and discover the places) and by the tourism products created (the map together with the catalogue will be unique tools to stimulate tourism in the area and the type of event created can be a model for schools to organize such camps in the region). The indicative project budget will be of 499.980 EUR, representing 1,71% from the present call for proposals, while the project contribution to output indicator I9 is 2, representing 4,65% from the value to be achieved by the call.

Achievements (EN):

The project implementation was finalized on 29.02.2020 and the following objectives have been achieved: LB and B2 awarded the service contracts for Identifying the local legends with the potential of becoming sustainable touristic attractions. Within the frame of the contracts for the Romanian side of the border were identified 7 Legends from district Dolj, 7 Legends from district Mehedinti and 6 Legends from district Olt and respectively for the Bulgarian side of the border – 10 Legends for district Montana, 6 Legends from Vidin and 7 from district Vratsa. All identified Legends from both sides of the border were uploaded within a Designed common interactive map, which available on the project web site on the following link: https://danubelegends.eu/discover-the-legends/, translated in all three languages. In addition, all identified Legends were included into a common strategy for valorizing the cultural and natural heritage through legends for promotion of sustainable economic, translated in all three languages, available on project website - https://danubelegends.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/D.T1.1.6_EN.pdf. The strategy contains methods for identifying/collecting the legends to promote the natural and cultural heritage, methods for promoting/ disseminating for their sustainable economic use, stakeholders involved both during the implementation period of the project and after it, entities responsible for implementing the strategy, monitoring methods. Four Legendary Camps in Varshetz, BG were organized so far with the participation of students from RO and students from BG in middle age 11 – 14 years old. The designed Interactive common map, together with performed Four Legendary Camps are representing the 2 integrated tourism products, which were created during the project implementation. Furthermore, during the carried-out 4 editions of Legendary camps, the project contributed to the Programme Result indicator “Number of tourist overnights in the CBC region” with additional 348 overnights.

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Expected Results (EN): R2.1 - Number of tourist overnights in the CBC region

Expected Outputs (EN):

The present project proposal will contribute directly, during its implementation, to the programme result indicator “Number of tourists overnights in the CBC region” with 348, namely the target group participants to the four editions of the Legendary Camp and the final meeting. Through the 2 new tourism products created, the project will contribute to the increase of tourist’s overnights in the CBC region also after the period of project implementation, either due to camps organized by schools or due to the raise of attractiveness of the area produces by the map and stories catalogue. The promotion of the legendary places from the target area through the video productions, promotional materials, media campaign will be a strong common policy for valorising and raising awareness of the cultural and natural heritage through its promotion for sustainable economic uses and due to that it has large contribution to the Program Result Indicator “Number of tourists overnights in the CBC region” under Priority Axis 2 in middle and long-lasting period. The project proposes not only to increase the number of tourists overnights in the CBC region, but this increase TO BE A DURABLE AND STABLE ONE BY PROMOTING A TYPE OF TOURISM THAT WILL ENSURE A MULTI-DAY STAYING IN THE AREA, combating the current high volatility and variability of overnights spent incurred by the business and transit tourism. This will impact the development of economic operators in tourism sector and the general development of the area.

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Specific Objective: To improve the sustainable use of natural heritage and resources and cultural heritage

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Asociatia Mereu pentru Europa

Department: Daniel Neagoe-Bacanu (President)

Address: Grigore Plesoianu no. 2, bl. 1, sc. 1, ap. 3, 200457 Craiova, Romania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.mpe.ro

Total budget: EUR 259 616.56

ERDF budget: EUR 220 674.08

Сдружение с дейност в частна полза „Агенция за развитие на северозападна България“

Name: Сдружение с дейност в частна полза „Агенция за развитие на северозападна България“

Department: Iliyana Serafimova Kaloyanova (Chairperson)

Address: Zheravitsa sq., 1 Dragan Tsankov str, 3400 Montana, Bulgaria

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 239 548.46

ERDF budget: EUR 203 616.19

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Private Benefit Association “Agency for Development of North-West Bulgaria”

Legends, a path to more attractive tourist destination

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Summary

Project name (EN): Legends, a path to more attractive tourist destination

Project acronym: LEGENDS

Project start date: 2018-09-01

Project end date: 2020-02-29

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 499 165.02

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 424 290.27

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 424 290.27.

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Reports

Common strategy for enhancing the natural and cultural heritage through legends to promote its sustainable use within the project "Legends, a path to more attractive tourist destinations"

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interregrobg.eu/en/projects/our-soft-projects/axis-2/2-categorie-principala/446-robg-467.html

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2020-02-29

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Legends Dolj, Romania - RO

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-09-30

Languages: ro

Legends Dolj, Romania - EN

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-09-30

Languages: en

Legends Dolj, Romania - BG

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-09-30

Languages: bg

Legends from Mehedinti county - Romanian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: ro

Legends from Mehedinti county - English language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: en

Legends from Mehedinti county - Bulgarian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: bg

Legends from Olt county - Romanian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: ro

Legends from Olt county - English language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: en

Legends from Olt county - Bulgarian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: bg

Legends from Vidin district - Romanian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: ro

Legends from Vidin district - English language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: en

Legends from Vidin district - Bulgarian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: bg

Legends from Montana district - Romanian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: ro

Legends from Montana district - English language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: en

Legends from Montana district - Bulgarian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: bg

Legends from Vratsa district - Romanian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: ro

Legends from Vratsa district - English language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: en

Legends from Vratsa district - Bulgarian language

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2019-11-26

Languages: bg

Maps

Legende Mehedinți-Dolj-Olt-Vidin-Montana-Vratsa

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Map

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2020-02-29

Languages: ro

Attachment file: Download

Легенди Мехединти-Долж-Олт-Видин-Монтана-Враца

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Map

Data source: https://danubelegends.eu/media/

Publication date: 2022-11-07

Document date: 2020-02-29

Languages: bg

Attachment file: Download

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