7 Wonders of Mehedinti and Borski (Q4295229)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | 7 Wonders of Mehedinti and Borski |
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385,884.73 Euro
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453,982.04 Euro
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85.0 percent
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7 July 2017
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6 January 2019
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Pro-Mehedinti Association
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44°27'58.82"N, 22°9'11.02"E
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44°37'28.09"N, 22°39'17.86"E
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45°15'36.90"N, 19°50'10.46"E
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Encompassing the second most beautiful part of the river Danube after its Delta, the Mehedinti – Borski region best assets for sustainable growth and development lies in their breath-taking views from the Iron Gates area. Struggling its way amid the Carpathian and the Balkan Mountains, Danube created one of the most impressive gorges that can be seen in whole Europe and with it, a boundless resource for the tourism sector. In spite of that, its potential is far to be used at a proper level by the actors involved in this economic sector – especially by the local ones – or by the local authorities or institutions that are entitled to pursue a smart growth for the region and a better life for its inhabitants, which are actually living very close to the poverty threshold as they are involved mostly in subsistence agriculture – related activities and are occupying ones of the top worst positions at national levels regarding unemployment, youth migration and its subsequent phenomena of population ageing. Even if it’s generally accepted that the tourism development would represent a boost for local economy that would generate jobs and thus mitigate most of those negative indicators, only a small amount of initiatives with concrete results have been implemented in the last years. Of these, the most efficient ones were sustained through IPA and other EU funds and a good few of them were implemented by the representatives of the current partnership. The Territorial analysis of the Romania-Serbia Cross Border Cooperation Programme describes the tourism sector in the CB area by having difficulties in “increasing the tourism demand sufficiently enough as to exploit the infrastructural asset available”. In Mehedinti – Borski area the conclusion is fully sustained by the numbers officially available for 2014: only 51.818 persons have visited Mehedinti and 56.789 Borski and they have spent a total of 248.437 nights, which represents an average of 599 nights/1000 inhabitants. The same indicator which is used in E.U. to analyse the sustainability of tourism was in 2013, for the EU-28 area, equal with 5209 nights/1000 inhabitants - almost 90% higher than our targeted region’s one. Inside the region are also important disparities: if Majdanpek area had 22.523 tourists who spent 43.596 nights in 2014, Negotin and its surroundings were visited by only 2.903 people that stayed for 6.430 nights. The same situation is in Mehedinti, where Danube’s Gorge area is by far the most visited part of the county, leaving to a great distance the Northern and Eastern zones, which also have significant touristic attractions. Even there is an increase related to the previous years, the demand is still under existing capacity and for sure, far under the region’s potential. After the successful experiences had in promoting the Iron Gates area, the partnership is pursuing now a new approach that aims to integrate the rest of Mehedinti and Borski territory in the area’s touristic offer, to present the activities that could bring and keep a visitor here for a longer period, to increase the visibility and functionality of niche-tourism attractions and to provide better knowledge for local stakeholders involved in this sector. Thus, the overall objective of the Project “ 7 Wonders of Mehedinti and Borski” is closely and strongly associated with the no. 4-2 one’s of the Romania – Serbia CBC Programme: to develop the targeted area’s tourism economy based on the sustainable use of the natural and cultural heritage, to create capacities and skills for high quality tourism services, to create all the required conditions for innovative cross border partnerships and to improve tourist informational infrastructure. The foreseen outputs are designed to have a practical value that would be of use both on short and medium-long terms for the targeted activity sectors and beneficiaries: The research of the available natural and cultural resources from Mehedinti and Borski, resulted from the first activity proposed in the Implementation Work package, will make full use for the Project’s purposes and will be shared with any interested person or authority by publishing it in three languages on the websites of the partners; Five conferences planned as complex events with a important training and success experiences sharing component, delivered by representatives of entities significantly active at European level in the respective domains and also with a practical part, consisting in establishment of five cross-border cooperation structures in the envisaged domains. Through these events, 250 persons will gain better knowledge in using specific natural and cultural resources for tourism development and 5 niche-tourism sectors will have a common, Romanian-Serbian representative structure. Four communication instruments will be created through the activities 3.7-3.10, in order to underline and increase the area’s visibility and attractiveness for tourists. 3000 copies of a (English)
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