Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro

Date of latest update: 2021-10-12

Description

Description (EN):

Karst rivers of the Adriatic basin are fascinating places, exhibiting both natural charm and usefulness for a vast array of human activities. Throughout history, they have been used as water source, food source, for transport of goods that sustained the first human settlements in rush Dinaric environment, and in more recent times as places to visit and play. Therefore on the rivers have emerged historical cities subject of this project, Salona today Solin, Doclea today Podgorica and Bona today Blagaj, Mostar. With the story on the origin of culture, the rivers offer a story about the richness of the natural heritage. Due to the frequent isolation of watercourses, rivers of the Adriatic basin are rich in endemic species. Thus, in the river Jadro, Buna and Neretva and the river Zeta Adriatic trout developed. Adriatic rivers offer a unique experience to every guest who is looking for a different vacation far from crowded coastline or city centre. One of the advantages for the development of special forms of tourism in the framework of this project is that the experience of the river happens within towns Solin, Mostar and Podgorica, which have already been recognized as a tourist destination what is extremely important if one bears in mind that any type of tourism of special interest is extremely difficult to develop in areas outside the main flow of tourist demand. RiTour will enable development of destinations on the Adriatic basin rivers for market of special interest through harmonisation of strategic documents on sustainable principles, through capacity building of providers of tourism offer, creation of cross-border tourism products, improvement and valorisation of protected cultural and natural goods and finally through proper marketing with the final purpose to increase tourist flow in our region and to improve socio-economic environment what will be of benefit for 320.061 inhabitants living in our cities.

Website: http://www.interreg-hr-ba-me2014-2020.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Increase in arrivals of non-residents staying in hotels and similar establishments

Expected Outputs (EN):

RiTour project’s main results are: (1) Developed and jointly promoted special forms of tourism in urban areas on the rivers of the Adriatic basin; (2) Improved infrastructure/interpretation of cultural and natural heritage for the purpose of developing special forms of tourism in urban areas; (3) Improved tourism infrastructure through installation of tourist info points in city centres and supporting tourist services at cultural and natural heritage locations; (4) Developed sustainable Tourism Development Strategies through a harmonized cross-border approaches; (5) Providers of tourism offer capacitated for providing special forms of tourism offer in urban destinations of the Adriatic basin. All these results will be achieved through cross-border cooperation between project partners ensured through joint Project Coordination Unit. Our destinations recorded 602.248 arrivals (Solin: 13.170, Mostar: 505.000, Podgorica: 84.078) in 2015. By achieving RiTour project results we expect to raise the number of arrivals by 10% each year (currently there is an annual increase of visits by 20% in Solin and Podgorica) starting from 2020 (a year following project end) to 2023 what corresponds to increase of at cca 200.000 arrivals in 2023 for these 3 cities with spilling-of effect in all the programme area.

Thematic information

Tourism Waterways, lakes and rivers

Specific Objective: To strengthen and diversify the tourism offer through cross border approaches and to enable better management and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage

Thematic Priority: (d) Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Javna ustanova RERA SD za koordinaciju i razvoj Splitsko-dalmatinske županije

Department: Project Preparation and Implementation Department

Address: Domovinskog rata, 21000 Split, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rera.hr

Total budget: EUR 190 564.40

Grad Mostar

Name: Grad Mostar

Department: Department of economy, utility and inspection

Address: Hrvatskih branitelja, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mostar.ba

Total budget: EUR 99 403.68

Turistička zajednica Hercegovačko-Neretvanskog kantona

Name: Turistička zajednica Hercegovačko-Neretvanskog kantona

Department: N/A

Address: Dr. Ante Starčevića, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hercegovina.ba

Total budget: EUR 98 589.16

Turistička organzacija Podgorica

Name: Turistička organzacija Podgorica

Department: N/A

Address: Slobode St., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.podgorica.travel/me/

Total budget: EUR 167 792.91

Javna ustanova za upravljanje zaštićenim dijelovima prirode na području Splitsko-dalmatinske županije "More i krš"

Name: Javna ustanova za upravljanje zaštićenim dijelovima prirode na području Splitsko-dalmatinske županije "More i krš"

Department: N/A

Address: Prilaz braće Kaliterna, 21000 Split, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dalmatian-nature.hr

Total budget: EUR 79 543.35

GRAD SOLIN

Name: GRAD SOLIN

Department: Department for legal and general affairs

Address: Stjepana Radića, 21210 Solin, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.solin.hr/

Total budget: EUR 204 806.56

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Public Institution RERA SD for Coordination and Development of Split Dalmatia County

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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City of Mostar

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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The Tourist board of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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Tourist Organization of Podgorica

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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Public Institution for the Management of Protected Areas in the County of Split and Dalmatia “Sea and Karst”

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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CITY OF SOLIN

Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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Project name (EN): Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

Project acronym: RiTour

Project start date: 2017-07-01

Project end date: 2019-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 840 700.06

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 714 595.05

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

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IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, .

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2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Croatia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-03-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

59 / 59 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

241 / 249 (96.79%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Information provided by the Programme. Data from 2 projects (ON TIME and PALL NET) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-hr-ba-me2014-2020.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-10-07 and 2023-01-04.

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Valorisation of cultural and natural heritage through cross-border cooperation of urban tourist destinations on the Adriatic basin karst rivers

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