Beyond Borders – Smart tourism and sharing economy | |The Albanian Biologists Association

Introducing smart tourism and sharing economy – Beyond Borders

Main goal: To introduce smart tourism and sharing economy concept based on more innovative and efficient use of endogenous cultural and natural resources and existing human capital.

Key objectives:

To stimulate usage of ICT technology in tourism sector and adapt current business models to fit to latest trends;
To strengthen tourism sector thinking in the region going beyond administrative borders and enable networking among tourism key stakeholders;
To enhance the position of tourism industry as borderless driver of economic development for cross-border communities;

To deepen cooperation among communities on business, social and personal level by creating joint tourism niches between the municipalities in the cross-border region (Mat, Diber, Bulqize, Klos, Debar and Ohrid Lake Region).

Duration period: 01/12/2017-02/28/2020
Project leader: Local Development Agency
Partners: Biologists of Albania; Institute for Research in Environment; Civil Engineering and Energy, Skopje, Macedonia; Mati Municipality