1. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call

2. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Project title: Online ecotourism guide Project duration: 12 months Project start: July 2012 Project budget: 32 480.00 EUR

3. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Lead Partner: Business Support Centre for Small and Medium Enterprises - Ruse Partner 1: Human Resources Development Agency – Ruse Partner 2: Municipality of Elena Partner 3: Association of Ecotourism in Romania

4. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Activities: Creation of a draft of the Guide Workshop with beneficiaries Testing Revision and upload of the Guide Review of the Guide with the beneficiaries

5. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Ecotourism Product Development From Planning to Sustainability describes the steps in order to create an eco tourism product – from the concept to the brand the product (the destination) positioning on the market promotion and consumption from the tourists

6. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Ecotourism Best Practice Models General Overview and Characteristics main characteristics of eco tourism and the destinations which have successfully applied eco tourism practices can be used as good practices by other destinations which have the potential for a similar development of their eco system

7. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Organizational Policy and Structures in the Environmental Field - Ecotourism Legislation and Regulation the main eco tourism policies the requirements for protection of the environment how to regulate an already existing eco destination

8. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Protected Areas and Biodiversity - Ecotourism Clustering Potential examples for protected zones and how vital it is to preserve the biodiversity in those tourist destination there will be introduced a “carrying capacity” for a certain area = the maximum number of tourists who can be at a destination without damaging its equilibrium examples for real eco tourism clusters and the required conditions for their survival

9. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: European Eco Labelling Policy and Ecotourism Criteria certain criteria which has to be met for eco certification all prerequisites which have to be fulfilled in order to obtain an eco label

10. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Visitor Impact Monitoring and Customer Satisfaction Management more details about the impact of visitors on the tourist destination and how to execute monitoring how to achieve visitors’ satisfaction and how to sustain it

11. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Guide modules: Guesthouse and Lodging Management & Ecotourism Good Practices in Guest Houses both explore the topic of ecotourism best practices and how to turn your guest house into a greener accommodation facility for tourists pieces of advice about steps which have to be taken in order to make your house eco-friendly

12. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call Benefits: practical self-education tool, developed for and together with the beneficiaries raising awareness about the environment/ biodiversity issues how to make more competitive and sustainable tourism products increases local capabilities for sustainable tourism management improves economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism in the Danube regions of Bulgaria and Romania free online access, in 3 languages – BG, RO and EN could be translated into the languages of all DCC members and used by them

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14. Online ecotourism guide Biodiversity and Tourism call THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!