Call: Interreg VI-A Slovenia-Hungary 2021–2027

Total project budget: EUR 936,312

Budget of Pannon ETT: EUR 121,500

Status: partner

Partners:

•  Hévíz Tourism Nonprofit Kft. (HU)
•  Pannon EGTC (HU-SI-HR)
•  Murka Sobota Development Center (SI)
•  Tourism and Development Institute Lendava (SI)
•  Good Place Sustainable Tourism Institute (SI)
•  Sárvár Tourist & TDM Nonprofit Kft (HU)
•  Innotime Hungary Consulting and Services Ltd.

The project consists of 4 main elements:

1. Within the framework of the project, a unified quality management system will be developed, which, based on the unified standards defined by the GSTC, supports the implementation of sustainable tourism development at both the destination and service provider level, as well as helps the uniform preparation of destinations, attractions and tourism service providers to meet international expectations for horizontal aspects . By the end of the preparation program, the destinations included in the project will obtain the international Green Destinations certification, and the international Good Travel Seal certification will be available to at least 40 tourism service providers.

2. During the implementation of the program, a uniform monitoring system will be prepared, which is connected to the European Commission's Common European Tourism Data Space, and using a uniform indicator system and based on a uniform data collection methodology, it provides indexing to destinations and tourism service providers about their own level of service, as well as the fact that with the index number, where it is included in the offer within the region.

3. Within the framework of the project, each project partner municipality develops a tourism product, the purpose of which is the coordinated presentation of services based on sustainable tourism within the destination. The aim of the pilot projects is to support various experience-oriented presentations of sustainability, supplemented by a fine-tuning period supporting the implementation.

4. In order for individual guests to be able to organize their cross-border trips and holidays as easily as possible, and for tourism service providers to be able to find partners as quickly as possible during the development of joint tourism packages and products, it is necessary to create a tourism database based on uniform principles, in which at least the the services of the four destinations participating in the project are available, and in the future it may be possible to display additional service providers. An important goal of the project is the development of this database and the unified involvement of service providers in the region in order to make the widest possible selection available.