INSiGHTS – Integrated Slow, Green and Healthy Tourism Strategies

“INSiGHTS – Integrated Slow, Green and Healthy Tourism Strategies”

Programme: Interreg Danube Transnational Programme

Lead: Pons Danubii European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (Slovakia)

Partners: LAG “Central Istria”, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), Institute for Tourism (Croatia), CEEweb for Biodiversity (Hungary), Razvojni center Srca Slovenije (Slovenia), Harghita County Council (Romania), Zala County Government (Hungary), Regional Development Agency with Business Support Centre for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Bulgaria), Donautal-Aktiv e.V. (Germany), Regional Economic Development Agency for Šumadija and Pomoravlje (Serbia), Plovdiv District Administration (Bulgaria), Istrian Region – Administrative Department for Tourism (Croatia), Komárom-Esztergom County (Hungary)

Project description: The INSiGHTS project is aimed at finding solutions for making regions more attractive to tourists by developing tourism strategies that keep in the focus the protection of natural and cultural resources. Regions in INSiGHTS all have outstanding natural and cultural resources, and at the same time they have a great potential related to the fast-growing recreational trend of slow, green and healthy tourism. Partners will be working in close cooperation with stakeholders in eight regions to gain relevant local feedback on the current situation of tourism and also ideas and proposals for new opportunities for slow, green and healthy tourism. There will be eight integrated sustainable tourism strategies developed by the partner regions and they will be adaptable all across the Danube Region. The expected outcomes in partner regions will be: smart card system, new tourism packages, trail guide applications, eco-education related new tourism services encouraging environmentally friendly healthy living, slow tourism networking offering recreational programmes, cycling infrastructures, and sustainable tourism model for rural and urban areas.

Value: 2,308,170.55 EUR

Implementation time: January 1 2017 – June 30 2019

Web page: www.interreg-danube.eu/insights
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/InsightsDanube
Twiter page: twitter.com/INSiGHTS_Danube