Goal: Create a strong regional partnership and establish cooperation among the regions of the Black Sea Basin.

Black Sea Network for Sustainable Tourism - Strategies for joint tourism marketing and development in the Black Sea region

Implementation period: January 2014 - August 2015

Partners: International Business Development and Investment Promotion Center (Georgia)

Burgas Municipality (Bulgaria)

Agency of Regional Development (Ukraine)

Department of Tourism and Resorts of Adjara AR (Georgia)

Sponsor: European Union

Goal: Create a strong regional partnership and establish cooperation among the regions of the Black Sea Basin.

Objectives:

To improve regional capacity for planning, coordination and implementation of joint strategic documents;
To build a network for the promotion and implementation of market orientated tourist products;
Improve knowledge/skills and develop tourism products in partner regions according to needs of international markets;
Establish a common agenda for sustainable tourism development in the Black Sea Basin;
Intensify cross-border economic cooperation through tourism.

Results:

There will be established 5 cross-border partnerships: stakeholders and experts from 5 countries will work together to promote joint tourism projects;
600 entrepreneurs / economic agents and 40 local governments participating to 32 trainings;
16 workshops, 8 internal roundtables, 20 study visits, 8 internal trainings;
4 strategies for cross-border tourism cooperation, 1 feasibility study, 5 PPPs, 6 specialised marketing researches, 1 IT platform developed in the project;
Minimum 50 cross-border public events, 2400 catalogues and info packages, newspapers etc.
Minimum 10 tourist destinations promoted by each partner country;
5 regional tourism fairs.