Danube with no frontiers - About the project

The Project “Danube with no frontiers” financed by the European Union by the Neighbourhood Programme Romania-Serbia 2005 aims to stimulate the development of rural tourism and promote the ethno-cultural tourism landmarks of the Danube river border region Mehedinţi-Bor, by strengthening the sustainable links between Romanian and Serbian communities in order to develop the tourism and facilitate the cross-border intercultural communication. The project has the following activities:

  • Establish a database of cultural - artistic and sports events, festivals, fairs and folk events coastal towns of the Danube river border region Mehedinţi
  • Bor involves gathering and documenting both bibliographic and field information of tourism potential which is popular in the border region
  • Identify and contact the Romanian and Serb tour operators in the project area
  • Organize a work seminar with the Romanian and Serbian tour operators from the Mehedinţi - Bor region. The seminar represented an opportunity to the participants to lay the foundations of a cooperation meant to develop the tourism on both sides of the Danube and learn modern methods of promoting the services they offer
  • Organize 10 conferences on agro-tourism. The participants received training aimed to inspire a desire to develop business in rural tourism in a region where it is perfectly feasible, with potential tourism value
  • Set an InfoPack stand up of the target region and its distribution involves realizing of cards with sizes of a visit card containing travel information on categories: cultural, historical and religious tourism objectives, places of accommodation and restaurants, places of leisure and panorama. The stand include travel information in the subject area, both from the Romanian and the Serbian bank of the Danube. The cards are marked on the both sides - in English. Also, the stand include a catalog of popular events from the Danube river border area, published in Romanian, Serbian and English. They are distributed for free in the information center, points of transit, tourist attractions and places of accommodation from Mehedinti and Bor.
  • Organize the tourism fair "Danube with no frontiers", with the participation of the Romanian and Serb tour operators from Mehedinti-Bor. The event was held on 22-23 April 2009, in Drobeta Turnu Severin, and aimed to promote the tourism offer of 30 Romanian and Serbian operators in the concerned region
  • Realization of a tourism virtual centre of the Danube Bor-Mehedinţi region, practically a web page that contains all the necessary tourist information of this area, being practically an on-line tourism guide of the region. For the best possible addressability, the page is promoted on national and international tourism sites as an effective way of promoting the concerned region

Implementation Period: 18.09.2008-17.09.2009