The mountainous landscape in which the Regional Development Agency operates is dominated by the mountains of Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije. The whole area is ideal for fans of active holiday, which represents a sustainable tourism offer of this type of destinations.
Up to date, the Agency has marked and signposted over one thousand kilometers of regional and local biking trails and prepared promotional materials for these trails. The Ministry of Tourism and Sustainable Development recognizes the Agency as the reliable partner for this type of activities and has co-financed some of the trails and also financed production of part of promotional materials.

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The region of Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije had a turbulent history and it is a place where various different cultures have interacted which is testified by numerous cultural and historical monuments. In order to preserve this resource and utilize it to enhance the touristic offer of the region we have created the cultural routes in all municipalities, assembling the most important and valuable monuments that we have. 
This is one of the first examples of valorization of cultural and historical resources for the purposes of tourism in the region. Along with the brochures that present the cultural routes, each point of the cultural route was marked with info boards that provide full information about the specific place.

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The mountainous region of Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije is rich in water, streams, rivers and lakes. The fish population was devastated over the last decades but efforts were made in recent time to restore it and to preserve particular zones. The Regional Development Agency cooperating with the active fishing clubs has established 8 fly fishing districts in the region at rivers Tara, Lim, Bistrica, Kuckaja, Zlorecica, Ljuca and Ljubovidja.
The fish population was renewed with the autochthonous river trout, the districts were marked with pictograms and info boards, the resting areas were set up and the ranger service was provided with the equipment.

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In the context of connecting the agriculture and the tourism, Regional Development Agency was practically the first to actively work on the development of the rural tourism. The most attractive locations and the best households were selected and provided with support in refurbishing of the houses, promotion and capacity building.
The Agency provides support to the interested households possessing the potentials for development of the rural tourism in preparation of the applications for the funds that support development of this sector. Such was the case of the family Kljajic that has applied for funding at the Rockfeller foundation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as well at the Agency, and has refurbished their old traditional house and adapted it to offer services of accommodation and dining.

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Mr. Milutin Prascevic from Brezojevice near Plav has spent years building up of the botanical fund in his botanical garden which he has set up near to his house on the spot that previously used to be a waste dump.
With the support of the Regional Development Agency the garden was improved and made more appealing for visitors, the promotional brochures were created, and the household of Prascevic was supported in preparation of the application for the donators with aim of creating conditions for rural tourism that would generate incomes for sustainable functioning of the garden.

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The region of Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije has the extraordinary natural resources and it is no wonder that two national parks are situated here – Biogradska Gora and Prokletije, while there are ongoing preparations for establishing of the regional Nature Park Komovi. As the protected zones represent the driver of the sustainable development, the Agency since its very foundation has set the cooperation with the national parks as one of its main priorities.
The National Park Prokletije is the youngest, founded in 2009 and since the very beginning it was strongly supported by the Agency, through the development of the tourism offer, building of the visitor’s centre, equipping of the offices and entrance points, training of staff etc.

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Women in the rural areas of the region represent a significant economic resource that is not fully utilized. For that reason, the Agency has been working with female entrepreneurs to develop their business skills, provided them with support to enhance the quality of their products and services and to promote their activities.
The aim of the Agency was to empower the women in rural areas economically which would strengthen their role in the society and in their families. The major part of these activities was conducted by the Agency in the territory of municipalities Mojkovac and Kolasin. The guide for opening of the firm was created, the fair was organized, and the media coverage provided in order to improve their visibility in Montenegrin society.

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Through one of its cross-border projects, the Agency has set up cooperation with 5 secondary schools from the region with aim of transferring the entrepreneur skills to the students.
The Agency has organized a fair for young entrepreneurs, a camp, training for the teachers, workshops for the students, supported the work of the student’s firms, and with the partners from Serbia jointly prepared the study on introducing the entrepreneurship studies in the program of the secondary schools. The fair was one of the highlights of the project where around 200 students from Serbia and Montenegro have presented their student’s companies and their activities.

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Regional Development Agency in the spring of 2011 started off the activities of the project named “Regional branding of the agricultural products from the region of Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije”. The goal of this project was to create network of the best producers of typical mountainous products, households that remained in the villages with agriculture as their primary source of incomes, to support them to brand their products in the best way and offer it to the strongest market in Montenegro – Podgorica.
We were not looking for the largest producers, but for those that have excess in production, but still produce in the traditional and healthy way, giving advantage to quality over the quantity. Many of our producers are currently in the procedure of certifying of the organic production, and some are already certified. Bearing all this in mind, we have found a partner in Podgorica, market Bonella, whose owners recognized all the advantages of the domestic product.
Our job was to find the producers, engage photographers, designers, authors, to design a promotional campaign, labels and packages, to connect the producers with the byers – in short that was the scope of this project.

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Regional Development Agency is actively working with its partners on the active promotion of the overall touristic offer in the region. For that reason, the Agency has supported the local tourism organizations from 5 municipalities of the region in preparation of their web sites.
Since the tourism organizations of Andrijevica and Bijelo Polje are the youngest in the region, with aim of successful representation of their offer in the tourist fairs, the Agency has financed design and print of their touristic catalogues.

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