{"id":95093,"date":"2022-10-13T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/crna-gora-domacin-evropske-elite-ruralnog-turizma-odrzana-skupstina-ruraltour-federacije-i-tematska-konferencija\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:29:08","slug":"montenegro-hosts-european-rural-tourism-elite-ruraltour-federation-assembly-and-thematic-conference-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/montenegro-hosts-european-rural-tourism-elite-ruraltour-federation-assembly-and-thematic-conference-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Montenegro Hosts European Rural Tourism Elite: RuralTour Federation Assembly and Thematic Conference Held"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n This year, Montenegro<\/strong> became the center of European rural tourism by hosting the annual assembly of the European Federation for Rural Tourism \u2013 RuralTour<\/strong>. The federation brings together over 30 organizations<\/strong> from 26 European countries<\/strong>, and the honor of organizing this year\u2019s gathering went to the Montenegrin Association of Rural Households \u2013 Tourism in the Countryside<\/strong>, a member since 2019. The new leadership will be headed by Agne Vaitkuviene<\/strong> from Lithuania.\n <\/p>\n

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Rural Tourism Conference<\/h4>\n

\n Following the assembly, a major conference on rural tourism in Montenegro was held within the project \u201cCapacity Development and Knowledge Exchange\u201d<\/strong> to support local food production systems and market access. The project is implemented by FAO<\/strong> with financial support from the EBRD<\/strong>, in close cooperation with the Regional Development Agency (RDA)<\/strong> for Bjelasica, Komovi, and Prokletije.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Key sector actors \u2013 from Klaus Ehrlich<\/strong> (RuralTour) to Ivan Mali\u0161i\u0107<\/strong> (RDA BKP) \u2013 emphasized the importance of international cooperation in strengthening local food production systems and linking them with the tourism market.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Speakers and Messages<\/h4>\n

\n Participants were addressed by representatives of the ministries of economic development, tourism, and agriculture, as well as Vu\u010dko Pe\u0161i\u0107<\/strong>, president of the Association of Rural Households. Via video link, Jelena Kriv\u010devi\u0107<\/strong>, Executive Director of RDA BKP<\/strong>, greeted the audience and highlighted the importance of international cooperation.\n <\/p>\n

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Montenegro hosted the RuralTour European federation assembly and a rural tourism conference. In collaboration with RDA BKP, FAO, and EBRD, the event highlighted the link between local food production and tourism. Gathering leaders from 26 countries, it confirmed the international standing of our Rural Households Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95093","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\/95093","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=95093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95095,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95093\/revisions\/95095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjelasica-komovi.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}