Rural tourism is the future of the region,the conclusion of the first regional tourism conference in Belgrade, which was attended by 12 countries.
Business Gazette Friday, 29 May 2009.
Rural tourism is recognized as one of the most effective ways to achieve an integrated tourist product in the region and was presented at the conference and the idea that the future creates a Regional Tourism Association whose members were Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and Serbia.
The association aimed to promote development of rural tourism in the region, as well as the promotion of this part of Europe, which is supported and the European Federation for rural tourism - EuroGites and its president Klaus Ehrlich.
According to the participants and organizers of the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce,the Conference fully achieved goals, and agreed to organize every year in another country of the Balkans.
Project Director Svetozar Krstic expressed the hope that the conference become a tradition that will support other countries in the region.
Soon it will be posted online site of the Conference, where it will be published in all presentations and publications, and presented to all participants.This will be an interactive presentation that will provide the opportunity and all others to join this initiative.
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RURAL TOURISM SERBIA
There are news updates in the eighth paragraph,where instead of "billion euros,"
should read "billion dollars". Spain provided four million dollars for rural development
BELGRADE, 15 October 2009. (BETA)
- Spanish fund for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals provided four million dollars for rural tourism development in Serbia, said today the Government of Serbia.
Joint Program document on the use of that money through the agency of the United Nations signed by Serbian Minister of Economy and Agriculture Mladjan Dinkic and Sasa Dragin, Ambassador of Spain in Serbia Íñigo De Palacio España,and a permanent UN coordinator in Serbia William infant.
United Nations in September 2000.The document adopted by the Millennium Development Goals,which commits all member states to work together on reducing extreme poverty by 2015. year.
Program funding of tourism in underdeveloped areas of Serbia will last until April 2012th and should assist rural farms to merge their agricultural production with the tourist offer, and women will have an advantage in employment on the basis of the Spanish donation.
That is, as the press conference in the Government said Dinkic,currently the largest single project
in the field of tourism, the UN is svojevsno recognition of Serbia, which was the last General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization selected in its Executive Council.
He said that rural tourism is a great opportunity to reduce poverty and unemployment rates in the villages, but also for balanced regional development.
Serbia, as he said Dinkic,the only country in Europe where it is in times of economic crisis increased the number of arrivals of foreign guests,five percent, while the increase in overnight stays of foreign tourists was 11 percent.
Last year's earnings from tourism in Serbia was a billion dollars, and nearly so,according to the words Dinkic expected in this year.
Dragin said that to stay young in the village is not enough to only promote development of agriculture, and to provide opportunities to earn in other industries as well as to the place where the living can meet all your needs.
Serbia, where the tourist lives 300,000 people, as pointed Ambassador España, can learn a lot on the example of Spain is the third country in the world by the number of foreign tourists and where the annual salary in the activities of 56 billion dollars.
(Beta, 15.10.2009)
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