Project Name | AGORA 2.0 - Heritage Tourism for Increased BSR identity | Project duration | 2010 - 2012 | Lead Partner | University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography, Germany | Partners | The project includes 25 NGOs, government institutions, representatives of business and scientific institutions from 10 countries. | Funding | Partly financed by the European Union within the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007 - 2013. | Project Location | Baltic Sea Region | Contact | Project manager | Baiba Strazdiņa | Phone | + 371 67830999 | Fax | + 371 67830291 | E-mail | strazde@lanet.lv | Adress | Dzirnavu Street 73-2, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia | The aim of the project is to focus on fostering the common identity of the Baltic Sea Region by highlighting, developing and marketing substantial parts of the Baltic Sea Region natural and cultural heritage as business environment and outstanding strength of the region. Objectives of the projects are: - Improve comon identity of the Baltic Sea region, based on natural and cultural heritage;
- Improve the awareness of the Baltic Sea region's unique natural and cultural heritage;
- Prepare unique tourism products that represent unique natural and cultural heritage of the Baltic Sea region;
- Improve access to information about tourist offer, which represents the Baltic Sea region's unique natural and cultural heritage;
- Promote sustainable use of the Baltic Sea region's unique natural and cultural heritage in bussiness development;
- Develop a pan-Baltic marketing strategy for heritage tourism;
- Improve cooperation among various tourism and heritage organizations from the Baltic Sea Region.
Latvian Fund for Nature in collaboration with LLTA "Country Traveller", takes part in the following work packages of the project: - WP4 BSR Heritage Scouting;
- WP5 Pilot solution.
Expected results of the project are: - Identified forest values as part of Baltic Sea Region heritage and its potential four tourism;
- Assessed the existing forest-related tourism products;
- Developed forest travel guide;
- Conduct the Economic valuation for forest ecosystem services and highlight good examples of sustainable use of forest heritage for business development;
- Promoted marketing of the forests as the Baltic Sea Region heritage.
Project leaflet More information about the project is available on the web site www.agora2-tourism.net. The project is partly financed by the European Union within the Baltic Sea Region Programme. |