The luck continues the Competition of projects of tourist destination
for more than two weeks as we have started accepting applications for the contest of social projects (pitching) direction of travel announced by the Lutsk city Council in partnership with the program "Active citizens" by British Parliament in Ukraine and CDF "Youth platform". The organizers of this initiative suggest interested Lutsk side hurry with the filing of their applications, because the time of their admission will be completed soon. "The Jewish community is quite active, especially the youth. Therefore, it is important for us to bring her to the realization of interesting, useful projects, in particular in the tourism sector. To this end, we've announced a competition in the field of tourism and are pleased that our new partner is the program "Active citizens" by British Parliament in Ukraine. Their experience in the direction of the organization of such initiatives is quite valuable. In addition, they attract experts who can teach people how to properly apply a particular idea and successfully to present it", - said the head of tourism and promotion of the city of Lutsk city Council Catherine Telesca. This contest has 6 priorities. Namely: new tourist facilities; creative space; inclusive projects; festivals, events, activities, information and IT products; torshi. "Despite the fact that luck is positioning itself as a city that is developing event tourism, for us interesting activities, Impreza, which could attract tourists. Also, I want to draw attention to inclusive projects, because the accessibility of the monuments that we have for people with disabilities needs to be improved. Again, this is a printing of various information materials in Braille, creation of 3D models of monuments, and the like. An important direction is the development of technology in this area, because tourism is actively migrating to the Internet space. People are often looking for information about the city without resorting to the travel Agency and on various websites and forums. Therefore, the creation of a variety of web resources, which would spread a positive image of information about Lutsk, is also one of the priorities"? Catherine believes Teleska. Note that the main criteria which will select the best projects: immediate direction ideas for development of the tourism industry of the city and the creation of a positive image of luck; novelty; creativity and compliance to the above directions. The total budget is 200 000 UAH. (100 000 UAH. having the Office of tourism and promotion of the city, and 100 000 UAH. The British Council in Ukraine). The maximum funding for one project – 30 000 UAH. "We understand that the financing is not large, but if there are ideas that are worthy of attention and require additional financing, we would be able to do it in this contest. In the end, some ideas can be start to implement them fully in the future," said Boat Teleska. She also said that the Office of tourism and promotion of the city of Lutsk city Council is actively working to improve the tourism potential of the city. The main areas of work are: marketing campaign and image politics (internal and external advertising), development of tourism infrastructure, support of tourism business (training of professionals working in this area), attracting companies to the development of tourism. "We also attract extrabudgetary funding and can boast that it now passed the first stage of the competition cross-border cooperation programme "Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020". The project, which we hope will win, will give the opportunity to open access to the tower Czartoryski and dungeons under the adjacent complex of the Jesuit monastery, as well as exposition to fill these objects. We are waiting for further results", – said Teleska. According to her, active management and people who work in this area is yielding results. Thus, the growing number of visitors in Lutsk museums (2014 – 149 033 visitor, 2015, 163 981 visitor; 2016 – 179 926 visitors); growing tourist tax (2014 – 68 602 UAH, in 2015 – 116 700 UAH, in 2016 — 146 132 UAH.); an increasing number vddc tourist information Centre (2014 – 1077 Ukrainians and 264 foreigners; 2015 – 2279 1596 Ukrainians and foreigners; 2016 – 2561 441 Ukrainian and foreigner). "As I mentioned, involving the public in the development of tourism is one of the important directions of our work. Therefore, we are convinced that the projects implemented in the framework of this competition will affect the increase in the number of tourists in 2017 and will confirm that the luck – a nice opening," said Catherine Telesca. Recall that applications for the contest are accepted till 21.00 on 7 April 2017. In this initiative can participate citizens over 18 years old. The application form and additional information can be found at - http://pitching.in.ua/lutsk. This was reported in Lutsk city Council.Ïåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
