About the project
The project ‘Development of tourist information system for cross-border eco-tourism in the Euroregion Bug’ is co-funded by the European Union within the framework of the Cross-border Co-operation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine.
Time of realisation: January 2014 – December 2015
Project duration: 24 months
Total budget: 464 675.00 EUR
Co-funding: 418 207.00 EUR
Project objective: Development of a cross-border tourist infrastructure network and improving the tourist attractiveness of Polesie in the Lubelskie Voivodship, the Brest Oblast and the Volyn Oblast.
PARTNERSHIP:
- LEAD PARTNER: Eco-tourism Club, Lutsk
43000 Ukraine, Volyn Region, Lutsk, 35 Lesya Ukrainka Street, ecotourism.bug@gmail.com, www.ket.org.ua - PARTNER 1: Brest Regional Agro-industrial Union
224018, Belarus, Brest Region, Brest, 41 Karbysheva Street, www.agrosoyz.by - PARTNER 2: Lublin Regional Tourist Organisation
20-113 Lublin, Poland, 1/3 Jezuicka Street, tel./fax. +48 81 532 14 48, e-mail: info@lrot.pl, www.lrot.pl , www.lubelskietravel.pl
MAIN ACTIONS IN THE PROJECT:
- Creation of documents referring to cross-border Polesie: tourist audit, development and promotion strategy, analysis of legal aspects of tourism development in the three countries, unified visual identification system of the brand Polesie;
- Creation of three tourist clusters: the Brest Cluster, the Volyn Cluster and the Cross-border Cluster;
- Creation and marking of walking and bicycle tourist routes in the cross-border area of Polesie ;
- Establishing and providing with equipment of cross-border information centres in Polesie (Urszulin, Szack, Lubieszów, Kosów, Tomaszówka);
- Publication of a cross-border tourist map of Polesie;
- Organisation of international tourism conferences;
- Organisation of a study tour and a press tour into cross-border Polesie;
- Organisation of stalls and promotion of Polesie during international fairs and selected cultural events held in the Lubelskie Voivodship, the Brest Oblast and the Volyn Oblast.