The project creates new economic opportunities for urban and rural communities by establishing proposed infrastructure improvements for active tourism, planned joint strategic actions for developing and promoting one cross-border tourism package, a unique set of capacity-building measures, and actions to strengthen cross-border stakeholder cooperation.

Overall objective(s):

Contribution to lasting sustainable tourism development, reaching balance among the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects guarantees long-term benefits to both communities and countries.

Specific objectives:

• Encourage active tourism in both CB areas by developing appropriate, modern, and safe infrastructure
• Develop an integrated touristic promotion and ready competitive tourism and hospitality services in cross-border area Krusevo – Elbasan

Activities:

• A1. Building contemporary, standardized and safe, tourism related infrastructure, facilities and services
• A2. Planned joint strategic actions for well acknowledged and trendily promoted cross-border area of Krusevo and Elbasan
• A3. Set of capacity building actions to build human capacities and developed competitive local tourist providers