FORT-NET
Project will improve quality and diversification of the tourism offer based on cultural heritage by improving access and visitor infrastructure and cultural assets, but also by developing and promoting new joint product and building capacity of variety of public and private stakeholders competent for developing sustainable cultural tourism.
Quick overview:
Project title: From the Medieval Fortresses in Herzegovina to the Austro-Hungarian Fortresses in Montenegro / FORT-NET
Donors: Cross-border Co-operation Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro (2014-2020)
Project value: 470,153.70 €
Implementation period: October 2019 - October 2021
Partners: Municipality of Ljubuški; Centre for Sustainable Tourism Initiatives (CSTI); Public Institution Development agency of West Herzegovina County – HERAG; National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro
From the Medieval Fortresses in Herzegovina to the Austro-Hungarian Fortresses in Montenegro
Overall Objective is contribute to sustainable economic development and re-establishment of cross border cooperation of economic actors in tourism and primary sector at bordering rural areas of BIH and MNE.
The Specific Objective is to develop and standardize new and strengthen existing high quality tourism itineraries based on common attractive historical, geographical and natural assets of the area as main potential for economic growth
Expected results:
- Cross-border economic cooperation in TTs established/sustained;
- Small scale significant cultural and outdoor tourism infrastructure functionally equipped and signed;
- Available and potential tourism assets and services mapped in the target area;
- Designed pipeline of market-ready attractive standardized and detailed itineraries of variable duration, improved public and private cooperation;
- Stakeholders in tourism trained for development of tourism offer based on potentials of area; for providing higher quality of services and initiation of business start-up initiatives;
- Designed itineraries offered at targeted tourism market;
- High quality tourism promotion tools presenting overall offer of the area are functional and presented to target markets;
- Wider stakeholders groups involved in project implementation..
