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About the project

New Sustainable Rural Tourism Learning Opportunities for Women in Border Areas – New Low

The project “New Sustainable Rural Tourism Learning Opportunities for Women in Border Areas – New Low” is implemented within Erasmus+ Programme.

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. The 2021-2027 programme places a strong focus on social inclusion, the green and digital transitions, and promoting young people’s participation in democratic life.

The Project is implemented by the consortium of three partners: Institute for cross border areas from Serbia, Local Action Group Međimurski doli i bregi from Croatia and Development Centre Novo Mesto, from Slovenia

General objective of the project is to improve capacity of women living in border areas through creating high quality and easily accessible learning opportunities for sustainable rural tourism.

Specific objectives are:

  • To create high quality training methodology and digital platform for women living in border areas for sustainable rural tourism and
  • To educate pilot group of women from border areas of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia for sustainable rural tourism
    The main challenges that women living and working in rural economy today in the border areas of eastern Europe face are more difficulties/issues due the fact that border areas are usually less accessible, less populated, with lower human potentials.

Additionally, they have a lack of information on job availability, lack of possibilities to diversify rural economy and to improve its overall position, as well as opportunities for training and education, limited access to knowledge resources and limited access to financial and non-financial services. Providing the training for them and creating easily accessible knowledge base for rural tourism will directly improve the quality of learning opportunities for them.

In addition, Project will contribute to the two more themes:

  • Creating and promoting learning opportunities among all citizens and generations – since Project will provide new approach in education and support to women in border areas to improve their skills and knowledge for rural tourism to help them diversify their mainly agricultural households and improve their overall position.
  • Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices – since Project will provide modern way of support to women to switch from traditional agriculture-based households to more advanced – tourism-oriented approach which will create better possibilities to improve their incomes and quality of life in general.

The main project results are:

  • Training methodology for training of women from border areas in rural tourism prepared and available online for organizations that support rural economy
  • Training of trainers organized and 9 people from partner organizations trained to educate women from border areas for sustainable rural tourism
  • 30 women trained for sustainable rural tourism through pilot trainings– 10 in each partner country: Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia
  • Digital platform for sustainable rural tourism created, available online in 4 languages (English, Serbian, Croatian and Slovene)
  • 3 presentations for 30 organizations that support rural economy and tourism development on developed training methodology and digital platform organized

New Sustainable Rural Tourism Learning Opportunities for Women in Border Areas – New Low

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Test: EVALUATION OF THE TOURIST POTENTIAL OF YOUR LOCATION

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Natural heritage
Tourist offers
Infrastructure on the site
Business potential
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The basis of the concept of rural tourism is the rural household, which represents the initial infrastructure for the stay of guests in a rural area. In order for rural areas to be included in the tourist offer, certain preconditions are needed. This refers not only to the equipment, the space and facilities, but above all, to the preparedness of the household to receive guests. If the rural household wants to be included in the tourist offer, then it must have the desire, abilities and opportunities to provide quality service and meet the expectations of the guests staying in the rural household. Based on your answers, we can consider that your location/property probably has no significant tourist potential. It is necessary for you to invest significant funds in additional facilities and improvement of the appearance of your household, in order to make it attractive enough for tourists.

The basis of the concept of rural tourism is the rural household, which represents the initial infrastructure for the stay of guests in a rural area. In order for rural areas to be included in the tourist offer, certain preconditions are needed. This refers not only to the equipment, the space and facilities, but above all, to the preparedness of the household to receive guests. If the rural household wants to be included in the tourist offer, then it must have the desire, abilities and opportunities to provide quality service and meet the expectations of the guests staying in the rural household. Based on your answers, we can consider that your location/property probably has moderate tourism potential. Consider additional investments to make your household even more attractive.

The basis of the concept of rural tourism is the rural household, which represents the initial infrastructure for the stay of guests in a rural area. In order for rural areas to be included in the tourist offer, certain preconditions are needed. This refers not only to the equipment, the space and facilities, but above all, to the preparedness of the household to receive guests. If the rural household wants to be included in the tourist offer, then it must have the desire, abilities and opportunities to provide quality service and meet the expectations of the guests staying in the rural household. Based on your answers, we can consider that your location/property probably has high tourism potential!

Test: EVALUATION OF THE TOURIST POTENTIAL OF THE REGION

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Natural heritage
Cultural heritage
Active vacation
Services
Tourist infrastructure
Attitude towards tourists
Traffic
Tourist attractiveness
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The heterogeneity of a territory is one of the characteristics of tourism, a tourist product and a tourist destination. Destinations are specific mixes of different components and can offer a large number of related products and services. All these components (products, services, as well as the geographical and cultural features themselves) represent the factors of a tourist destination. All these elements, factors, are also called tourist resources. Resources are all the potentials on which the development of an area and tourist activity could be based, that is, all the means that can be brought to a useful purpose. Based on your answers, it can be concluded that your region does not have significant tourist resources and does not have significant tourist potential. In other words, a large number of tourists will not come to your region. The key question for you is whether you can have such a high-quality offer that tourists will visit you just because of it?

The heterogeneity of a territory is one of the characteristics of tourism, a tourist product and a tourist destination. Destinations are specific mixes of different components and can offer a large number of related products and services. All these components (products, services, as well as the geographical and cultural features themselves) represent the factors of a tourist destination. All these elements, factors, are also called tourist resources. Resources are all the potentials on which the development of an area and tourist activity could be based, that is, all the means that can be brought to a useful purpose. Based on your answers, it can be concluded that your region does not possess significant tourist resources, but that it has its own specificities, which represents a moderate tourist potential. In order for your entrepreneurial venture in rural tourism to be successful, you must create such an offer on your tourist farm, which will be attractive enough to attract tourists.

The heterogeneity of a territory is one of the characteristics of tourism, a tourist product and a tourist destination. Destinations are specific mixes of different components and can offer a large number of related products and services. All these components (products, services, as well as the geographical and cultural features themselves) represent the factors of a tourist destination. All these elements, factors, are also called tourist resources. Resources are all the potentials on which the development of an area and tourist activity could be based, that is, all the means that can be brought to a useful purpose.

Based on your answers, it can be concluded that your region has significant tourism resources, which is an excellent prerequisite for the success of your venture in rural tourism!

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Test: PERSONAL ASSESSMENT

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Personal Qualities
Business Experience
Skills

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An entrepreneur in rural tourism is a person who organizes and manages his tourist household based on his own initiative and assumes significant business risks. Willingness to take risks is one of the basic desirable qualities of a future entrepreneur in rural tourism. There is no universal recipe for success, however, successful entrepreneurs in rural tourism share certain common personal qualities. Those qualities - in addition to a combination of more or less fortunate circumstances and more favorable and less favorable environmental conditions - enable sustainable and profitable household management. Every entrepreneur should have a certain set of personal qualities and skills that will ensure his survival in the turbulent tourist world. Although a set of personal characteristics does not guarantee success by itself, it also does not necessarily mean that you will be unsuccessful in a business. Based on your answers, unfortunately, we cannot claim that rural tourism is a good option for you, as it may not suit your personality type. Work on yourself, study, read, watch what others are doing. In the meantime, consider other options for diversifying your rural business.

There is an opportunity to engage in rural tourism, but additional efforts are needed.

An entrepreneur in rural tourism is a person who organizes and manages his tourist household based on his own initiative and assumes significant business risks. Willingness to take risks is one of the basic desirable qualities of a future entrepreneur in rural tourism.

There is no universal recipe for success, however, successful entrepreneurs in rural tourism share certain common personal qualities. Those qualities - in addition to a combination of more or less fortunate circumstances and more favorable and less favorable environmental conditions - enable sustainable and profitable household management. Every entrepreneur should have a certain set of personal qualities and skills that will ensure his survival in the turbulent tourist world. Although even a perfect combination of personal characteristics cannot guarantee success, based on your answers, we can consider that you possess enough personal qualities that are a good prerequisite for success. Go ahead, rural tourism is a good option for you!