Common challenges - common solutions: institutional development in the field of tourism

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The public local administrations from Jimbolia, Carpinis and Csanadpalota has a long lasting cooperation history. They started to visit each other’s events from the 1990 years. In 2015 Jimbolia and Csandpalota institutionalized their cooperation and signed a twin town agreement. They started to cooperate in the field of culture, education, tourism, etc. The social-economical situation of the localities is very similar, all the localities are near the country border, the distance between the localities is very short. All these factors leads to the need of cooperation. Although the number of tourist attractions in the region is high, the number of leisure tourist are very low, almost all the visiting tourist come from businesses sector. Tourism is one of the breaking point, which can help local families to achieve a higher standard of live. The partners observed that the problems they are facing is present at the level of all localities, so they started to search joint solutions.The main objective of the present project is to strengthen the cooperation between the participating local public administrations and we choose a concrete topic: the development of tourism promotion.Our project will develope the institutional capacity of the participating local public administration in three perspectives: 1. development of the human resources, through workshops and exchange of best practices 2. development of the infrastructure, through acquisition of equipments and small scale renovation works and 3. development of tourism promotional materials, which will be used in the promotion of the region. Our goal is to create three tourism information centers, to prepare at least 3 persons in every locality to work in the field of tourism promotion and to make an inventory of the touristic attractions and the touristic services in the three participating localities and their region and to develop a joint tourism promoting strategy.

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