Integrated Tourism Approach For the Development of Cultural and Natural Sites in Chepelare, Bg and Prosotsani, Gr

The overall project's objective is to preserve and enhance local culture, monuments and natural and man-made tourist resources and promote forms of tourism that provide healthy interaction opportunities for tourists and locals and increase better understanding of different cultures, customs, lifestyles, traditional knowledge and believes. The project's aim is to increase considerably the number of the annual tourist visits in the partners’ areas. The expected outputs are:
- Support the two Municipalities' strategic plans, to promote sustainable economic growth and to promote a sustainable environment;
- Help the two Municipalities to tailor their tourism policies to the latest challenges, to take a comprehensive approach encompassing the national & local dimensions;
- Promote CB co-operation between local authorities and other stakeholders on issues related to tourism;
- Contribute to cross border tourism development by supporting identifying obstacles to CB tourism development in the area and beyond;
- Contribute to a better measurement of the importance of tourism services and of their contribution to growth through the development of reliable data and analysis for business and policy decision making; 
- Contribute to strengthen performance through reviews of tourism potential.