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On Thursday, November 23, 2023<\/strong>, an event was held at Zlatar to mark the official start of the project “Joint Actions for the Development of Rural Tourism.”<\/strong> This initiative aims to strengthen the tourist offer of the cross-border area between Serbia and Montenegro.<\/p>\n

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Strategic Importance of Rural Development<\/h4>\n

The event featured opening remarks by the President of the Municipality of Nova Varo\u0161, Radosav Vasiljevi\u0107, and the Director of the Tourism Organization of Western Serbia Region, Miroslav Ra\u0111en. Presentations were delivered by project manager Sne\u017eana Ze\u010devi\u0107, municipal assistant Marijana \u0110oki\u0107, hotel director Slavica Ad\u017ei\u0107, and journalist\/herbalist Mom\u010dilo Antonijevi\u0107.<\/p>\n

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The event served to introduce the public to the project’s goals, highlighting the role of natural resources<\/strong> in the future development of underdeveloped municipalities and the economic potential of rural tourism in the cross-border region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Knowledge Exchange and Best Practices<\/h4>\n

Attendees included representatives from regional tourism organizations, healthy food producers, agricultural cooperatives, and partners from Northern Montenegro. The gathering concluded with a display of handmade handicrafts by rural women and herbalists from the Zlatar region, emphasizing local traditions.<\/p>\n

Financing and Partnership<\/h4>\n

The project is co-financed by the European Union<\/strong> through the Serbia-Montenegro Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020 (IPA II). It is implemented in partnership by the RDA BKP<\/strong>, the Municipality of \u0160avnik, and the Tourist Organization Zlatar. The total value is 264,724 euros, with the EU providing 225,016 euros (85%).<\/p>\n

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This initiative represents a vital step toward removing obstacles in the sector and increasing the share of rural tourism<\/strong> in the total tourist traffic of the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The event was realized in a way to introduce the general public to the planned goals, results and activities of the project, to point out the importance of rural tourism for the economic development of underdeveloped municipalities and especially to highlight the function of natural resources in the future development of the tourist offer of the cross-border area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-activities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93963,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions\/93963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}