1. Tailored training for professionals in the rural tourist sector-FORESTUR” ES/06/B/F/PP-149544 Budapest, June 2006

2. 1 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Summary Activities carried out in the frame of WP of the project; Short presentation of the Report carried out by Romanian partners

3. 2 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings INTRODUCTION Remind Who is addressing FORESTUR project? to the tourist professionals operating in the tourism field from rural areas. Objective to respond to the training needs of the tourist professionals operating in the tourism field from rural areas, by offering an innovative training based on ICT;

4. 3 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Working Packages WP 1 - ANALYSIS OF NEEDS 01/10/2006 - 28/02/2007 ended WP 2 - DESIGN OF THE TRAINING CONTENT AND ADAPTATION OF THE FENICIA METHODOLOGY 01/03/07 – 30/09/07 WP 3 - PILOT TEST OF THE METHODOLOGY 01/10/07 – 31/03/08 WP 4 - WRITING & EDITION OF THE SUPPORT GUIDEBOOKS 01/04/08 – 30/09/08 WP 5 - DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT VALORISATION /SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 01/10/06 – 30/09/08 WP 6 - DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN 01/10/06 – 30/09/08

5. 4 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP1 Analysis of the needs (1) Objective: Identify and concrete the real training needs of the professionals from the Suceava aria 1. Prepare the report about the tourism in Suceava aria and the specific training needs in the tourist sector in this aria: Contribute to the development of questionnaire for identification the training needs; Translate it in Romanian language; Collaborate with APT Bucovina for statistical analyse of the results; Prepare together with APT Bucovina the wrote report with the following structure: General presentation of the Suceava aria and surrounding rural aria ; State of the art in this tourism aria; Training needs analysis

6. 5 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP1 Analysis of the needs (2) Objective: Identify and concrete the real training needs of the professionals from the Suceava aria Contribute to the design of the web-site; Translate the leaflet of the FORESTUR project;

7. 6 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP 2 DESIGN OF THE TRAINING CONTENT AND ADAPTATION OF THE FENICIA METHODOLOGY 01/03/07 – 30/09/07 Objective: Design of a training methodology that responds to the needs identified in WP1 and design of the ICT tools ( website and on-line platform ) Adaptation of the FENICIA training methodology to the tourism sector  Elaborate the Business Training module: establish the structure of the modules ( the units and the content )  Prepare the focus group of the project, formed mainly from owners of pensions from Suceava aria, but not only (Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, 6 local agencies of tourism, Town Hall from Vatra Dornei).  Draw-up the 1st Report of the project

8. 7 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP5 Design and implementation of the project valorisation & sustainability strategy Objective To disseminate and exploit the project results at local, national and European levels 1. Spreading the information about the project; 2. Presentation of the project in the web site of APT BUCOVINA and link in web site of CIDAf; 3. Spread the leaf let of the project in several important events: a) two thematic monitoring conferences organinzed by Leonardo da Vinci Agency from Romania

9. 8 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP5 Design and implementation of the project valorisation & sustainability strategy a)two thematic monitoring conferences organinzed by Leonardo da Vinci Agency from Romania on 23 of March, with the topic ” Mobility beyond borders” on 07 of June, with the topic “Education, Labour market and Employability in Minerva, Grundtvig & Leonardo da Vinci projects; On 5-6 July will attend the conference with the topic” Competences, Learning outcomes, Qualifications: Transparency contributing to Employability” b) 6 th Open forum of Innovation and Technology Transfer ( Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bucharest, 19-20 March ) c) Meetings with APT Bucovina members

10. 9 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings WP6 Quality Management Plan Evaluation of the activities and results carried out. a) Quality management Plan; b) Evaluation tools

11. 10 Summary of the Report Content of the report Geographical presentation of the county; State of the art in Bucovina area: agriculture, industry and service sectors Monuments and tourism objectives

12. 11 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Monuments and tourism objectives Customs and costumes

13. 12 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Structure of accommodation in Suceava area after stars/flowers Offer of Agro-Tourism Existing strategies, policies and initiatives in rural tourism in Bucovina area

14. 13 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS In order to identify the training need of staff from local tourism companies which are members of Association for Tourism Promotion „BUCOVINA” we used the questionnaire proposed by the coordinator of the FORESTUR project. A number of 26 questionnaires were collected from the companies presented below

15. 14 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings From 26 companies 15th of them have more then 3 years of experience

16. 15 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings 17 companies are doing businesses in rural tourism or country house

17. 16 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Number of employees is between 2-5 in the majority of tourism companies

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25. 24 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings Learning needs The perception of lerning need in mainly related to the language, followed by ICT and Business Management

26. 25 Activities carried out by CIDAf between 1st -2 nd meetings CONCLUSION Training needs 1.Language 40% 2.ICT27,5% 3.Business Training17,5% 4. Custumer Services15%