The second forum day was devoted to transboundary tourism projects that are being implemented on the border regions of Belarus.  
The forum finished with the discussion of questions of further development of transboundary cooperation in the sphere of tourism, as well as discussion of ideas for new projects, which could be financed from external sources such as projects of international technical aid. Forum participants decided, that it's necessary to concentrate on such areas as education on agro ecotourism, development of theme villages, creation of tourist paths, employment of national parks' and reserves' potential. It's also necessary to develop cooperation in such areas as maintenance of TICs, adoption of new technologies - audio guided tours, tourist counters, QR-codes, mobile applications.
Joint events such as transboundary forum are planned to take place on continuing basis in the region Bella Dvina and Baltic Country of Lakes. Beside workshops, seminars and meeting the emphasis will be put on joint festivals and bilateral visits. "Theoretical data have already been collected", mentioned project manager Tatiana Kozachuk (Latvia). -" Now it's important to share practical experience, pay attention to our neighbours' achievements and failures. This approach will help us avoid mistakes in elaboration and promotion of new tourism products."

Forum materials are available in Russian upon link

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More about forum in the edition "Polatski vesnik" (15.47 Mb, pptx) 

Contact: Marina Borisova, project expert borisova@eu-belarus.net, +375 29 873 35 82.