1. Project Summary
Co.Co.Tour project aims to guarantee a smart, inclusive and sustainable growth of the coastal communities in the target areas through a development of a cross-border model of cooperation based on heritage enhancing and tourism innovations. Starting from the example experience of Tricase Port Museum (IT), project creates two new ecomuseum realities in Albania and Montenegro that become dynamic centers for their communities on discovering and enhancing the material and immaterial heritage of coastal territories (sea traditions, cooking and local products, old crafts, flora and fauna, languages, sailing etc) and developing its accessible and sustainable tourist offer. The cooperation model will increase a crossborder governance of the involved territories, sharing approaches, strategies and management standards, allowing heritage’s identification and safeguarding and developing a community tourism offer based on diversification, deseasonalization, target enlargement (young, foreigners, disabled), quality and accessibility of the services. Exactly Community Tourism represents a growing and sustainable market strategy that combines quality of the service with an authentic encounter with the community and its heritage making local people kind of land managers of their coastal territory. The project will activate a community tourism package for each territory by improving organizational and promotional capacity, activating public and dynamic ecomuseums centers, improving accessibility of spaces and services by upgrading structures, developing web and ict devices join with graphic and narrative tools in order to increase attractiveness and tourism competitiveness.
2. Information
Call: 1ST CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR STANDARD PROJECTS
Project Acronym: Co.Co.Tour
Project Number: 71
Specific Objective: Boost attractiveness of natural and cultural assets to improve a smart and sustainable economic development.
Start – End Date:2018-04-03 – 2020-04-02
Total budget: EUR 1,079,523.71
Eu Contribution:IPA co-financing 85%
3. Project Partners
LEAD PARTNER:
- Albanian Development Fund (Albania)
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- Himara Municipality (Albania)
- Magna Grecia Mare (Italy)
- Comune di Tricase (Italy)
- Local Development Agency (Montenegro)
- Herceg Novi Municipality (Montenegro)
ASSOCIATED PARTNER:
- National Agency of Protected Areas (Albania)
4. Contact for Albanian Partner
Albanian Development Fund
Contact: Mirbana Lame
Email: mlame@albaniandf.org
5. Link of Project Website and Social Media
Website: https://cocotour.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/home
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoCo-Tour-Project-621505731598047/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coco_project
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coco-tour-272939176/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbL3Qp0_IkjtxMsawUL36EQ?view_as=subscriber
6. Activities
- CO.CO.TOUR, Cross Border Meeting from 17 to 19 April in Tricase
After finalizing the territorial analysis, all Co.Co.Tour project partners will attend from 17 to 19 April 2019 the cross border working session in Tricase (Italy), to define the principles, practices and management/promotion plan of the respective Eco museums.
On 17 April, the Port Museum of Tricase will be presented by the Italian project partners, followed by a meeting with local stakeholders.
On the second day, each Country will present its respective territorial analysis and after it the strengths and general critical points of each area will be identified. In this context, an important part of the meeting will be the meeting with the accessibility expert.
On the last day the concept of the Eco museum and its management/promotion plan it will be discussed.
- CO.CO.TOUR, second consortium meeting in Tirana 12 February
Link: https://cocotour.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/cocotour-second-consortium-meeting-in-tirana
On 12 February 2019, the Albanian Development Fund in the role of the “Co.Co.Tour” lead partner, organized in Tirana the second consortium meeting with the participation of all project partners.
In this meeting, the current progress of the project was analyzed, compared to the application form; it also aimed to coordinate and adapt the project management and solve critical issues that require attention. At the end of the meeting, the partners agreed on the updated activities plan for the upcoming period.
The “Co.Co.Tour” project aims at securing a smart, inclusive and sustainable growth of the coastal communities in the target areas through the development of a cross border eco-museum model and a common strategy focused on community tourism.
- CO.CO.TOUR, kick off meeting in Tirana
Link: https://cocotour.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/node/6
The kick off meeting of the project Co.Co.Tour Coastal Communities Tourism, cofunded under the Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme, was held on 4 June in Tirana (Albania).
The main goal of the project is to develop a cross border ecomuseum and community tourism model, in order to guarantee a sustainable growth of the coastal communities in the programme area.