An Initiative on Capitalising Tourism's prospects of the region

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Greece - Bulgaria

Date of latest update: 2024-03-21

Description

Description (EN):

CapTour project consists of a set of actions with an ultimate goal to strengthen the key factors affecting entrepreneurial success in the tourism industry within the CB area. The project is focusing on the SMEs of this sector, since the place and role of small and medium enterprises in the tourism and hospitality industry have a great impact on the socio-economic development of the CB area and tourism entrepreneurship development is considered as a dynamic factor in the development of local communities. The project consists has as a goal to strengthen the SMEs’ support system in order to improve entrepreneurship conditions in the value chain of tourism. This will be achieved by actions tailored to those aiming to start business & to those who are already active. Actions of the project, such the partnership opportunity e-platform will provide business support via published projects’ outputs for those who want to start a business, while networking for SMEs will be easier since networking opportunities will be hosted. Sectoral round tables & business forums will be realized in order potential entrepreneurs to have access to sector know-how & support in generating business ideas.Also, potential entrepreneurs will gain know-how via their participation in training, consulting & mentoring actions.Special attention will be given to new & newly established SMEs, since via the project the needed skills for business success will be provided and the SMEs’ support will be enhanced.

Achievements (EN):

During the implementation of the project, short building skills sessions in a hybrid form were organized, focused on the topics such as customer service for tourist businesses, tourism marketing for enterprises & self-employed, raising awareness on tourist ID & its importance for local economies. Furthermore, a mapping study regarding best practices among Europe was developed, thematic workshops were carried out and a partnership opportunity platform was designed which includes all the outputs of the activities that were produced from all partners.

Website: http://www.greece-bulgaria.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The main outputs of the project that will significantly improve entrepreneurship conditions on the CB area are: - the implementation of networking actions such as round tables, business forums, thematic workshops & a partnership opportunity platform, contributing to the promotion of the transnational cooperation. -the development of a mapping study aiming at enhancing tourism sector through gathering best practices across EU regarding financial instruments in tourism development, finance, sustainable tourism & tourism-led growth models in practice. - enhancing the SMEs’ support system through the development of a supporting training material, including webinars & toolkits - the implementation of skills enhancement trainings focusing on issues such as organization & management of SMEs, with emphasis on financial management, IT use, introducing new services & products with tourist orientation. - the implementation of short building skills sessions focused on customer service for tourist businesses, tourism Marketing for enterprises & self-employed, raising awareness on tourist ID & its importance for local economies. - the realization of thematic workshops, including study visits, focusing on thematics such as innovation, CSR, extroversion, social economy, quality standards, thematic tourism & travel blogging. - the development of a tourism support scheme including the provision of consultancy services at business activity level or group, the provision of personalized support services and the provision of mentoring services (group based) to entrepreneurs.

Thematic information

Tourism

Specific Objective: To Improve entrepreneurship SME support systems

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: Hellenic Hoteliers Federation

Address: 24 STADIOY STR, 10564 ATHENS, Greece

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 107 200.00

ERDF budget: EUR 91 120.00

Association of Hoteliers, Restauranteurs and Tour Operators Sandanski

Name: Association of Hoteliers, Restauranteurs and Tour Operators Sandanski

Address: MACEDONIA STR., NO 1, 2800 SANDANSKI, Bulgaria

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 147 360.00

ERDF budget: EUR 125 256.00

Rhodopes Hoteliers and Restauranteurs Association

Name: Rhodopes Hoteliers and Restauranteurs Association

Address: BULGARIA STR., NO 10, 4700 SMOLYAN, Bulgaria

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 143 120.00

ERDF budget: EUR 121 652.00

Research Account for the University of Macedonia

Name: Research Account for the University of Macedonia

Address: 156 Egnatia Street, GR-546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 180 369.70

ERDF budget: EUR 153 314.24

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Summary

Project name (EN): An Initiative on Capitalising Tourism's prospects of the region

Project acronym: CapTour

Project start date: 2021-05-06

Project end date: 2023-12-05

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 578 049.70

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 491 342.25

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 491 342.25.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Greece - Bulgaria

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

2021-10-07

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

132 / 132 (100%)

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

489 / 489 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://old-2014-2020.greece-bulgaria.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-03-11.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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An Initiative on Capitalising Tourism's prospects of the region

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