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TOURISM IN RURAL AREAS: A TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF YOUTH

The French Embassy & Caritas BK BiH & Alterural – Association for the development of Rural Tourism BiH

 organized the round table devoted to the development of rural tourism on the 5th and 6th of May at  Aquareumal Fojnica

2010 Bazaar – Taste the world

On Sunday, 5th of December 2010., Caritas Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the Holiday Spirit Bazaar organized by International Women’s Club.

Study visit to Slovenia

In collaboration with the Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Celje, Caritas and Alterural organized a study tour to Slovenia on the development of rural tourism.

Start of rural tourism in Fojnica

The Tuka family, owners of a renovated farmhouse situated in the Lužine village, welcomed their first guests this summer.

Colaboration with PD Bitovnja

Project proposal by mountaineering association from Kresevo „ PD Bitovnja“was submitted to Caritas at the beginning of July.

Meeting in Cluny

The Meeting of Caritas’ representatives from 27 European countries entitled “Peoples of Europe – Europe of human rights” organized by Secours Catholique was held in Cluny from 1^st until 4 th of October 2010.

Caritas gastro fair in Fojnica

Caritas BK BiH has organized a gastro fair in Fojnica entitled „ Fojnicka trpeza“ on Wednesday, 13 Octobar.  44 exhibitors  from whole country had a chance to present  their products.

Fondation Abbé Pierre visits the project in Fojnica

Jacques Jafreddou, one of the FAP administrator, came in Bosnia in October and payed a visit to our project in Fojnica on the 14th of october. We mainly focused our tour on the “housing” component of the project: Obojak Communuity Guest House, the agro-tourism offer with the Tuka family guesthouse, an old house in Fojnica owned by a single woman; we also visited some socio-economic projects implemented by rural families such as a green house for growing vegetables and a beekeeper who specialized in queen bee production. We could exchanged a lot about the sustainability of our actions (promoting the Rural tourism offer and accompanying the families to build their capacity to welcome guests and sell their agri-products) and about the need to adopt an integral approach (housing together with economical support, trainings..) in order to help people in need.

Rural tourism Summer University in France

At the end of September (29,30,and 1st of october), two Alterural members have participated to the 20th edition of the Summer University of rural tourism, this year devoted to the topic “Daring innovation in supply’, in Bourg en Bresse. 450 participants from all over France and abroad came for this anniversary edition, which brought together stakeholders in tourism development in rural areas, private or public operators, development officers, institutions, consultants, trainers, representatives of networks …

More info on : http://www.ue-tourisme-rural.fr/programme__11_programme-general_.html

A unique meeting…

Travnik: Promote tourism through paragliding.

Bertrand Collet is a French man who came to Bosnia and Herzegovina to exercise his favorite sport and hobby. Conquered at the same time by the charm of a young local woman, by the quality of life of the populations and by the landscape, he works for more than five years now to facilitate the contact and the exchanges between his two countries, so registering his action in what we can call the associative tourism.