The Project

Project title:  Development and promotion of gourmet and wine tourism in the cross-border region of Bulgaria and Turkey (TransGourmeTour), application No: CB005.1.22.046

Subsidy coantract under the Instument for Pre-accession Assistance II No: RD-02-29-238/31.07.2017

Lead Partner:  Haskovo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bulgaria

Partners: Edirne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Turkey, NGO Thracian Sustainable Development, Bulgaria

Priority axis:  2: Sustainable tourism

Specific objective:  2.2: Increasing the cross-border tourism potential by developing common destinations

Duration:  12 months (01.08.2017 – 31.07.2018)

Total budget (in €): 73232,22

For LP: 41059,99 €

For PP1: 20133,00 €

For PP3: 12039,23 €

Overall objective of the project: Increasing the Bulgaria-Turkey cross-border cooperation capacity in the field of sustainable tourism, aiming enhancement of European territorial cohesion, through promotion of alternative forms of tourism.

Specific objectives:

1. Increasing the capacity for sustainable tourism development in the border region of Bulgaria and Turkey through development and promotion of common destinations for gourmet and wine tourism.
2. Using IT technologies to develop and promote the specific gourmet tourism in the cross-border region of Bulgaria and Turkey, as an alternative form of tourism.

Project Activities      

1. Project management.
2. Information and publicity.
3. Study of destinations for gourmet and wine tourism in Bulgaria and Turkey, and development of new common tourist packages.
4. Creation of multilingual Tourist Gourmet Guide to the cross-border region of Bulgaria and Turkey, in two versions - Online platform and Mobile Application.
5. Organization of culinary exhibitions, presentation of the Tourist Gourmet Guide and new tourist packages in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Project Results:

1. Held 4 work meetings;
2. Prepared 6 PP dossiers;
3. Developed visualization, information and publicity;
4. Carried out 2 Studies for gourmet and wine tourism destinations in Bulgaria and Turkey, and created a common database on 100 destinations;
5. Developed 6 new common tourist packages for gourmet tourism in Bulgaria and Turkey;
6. Created an Online platform of Tourist Gourmet Guide in 3 languages - Bulgarian, Turkish and English;
7. Created a Mobile application;
8. Organized 2 one-day culinary exhibitions in BG and TR;
9. Held 2 press conferences in Edirne and Haskovo.

Target Groups

• 100 SMEs - hotels, restaurants, wine cellars, dairies, bakeries, food markets, farms
• 1000 representatives from the tourism sector - tour operators and tour agents, information centers, community centers, vocational schools for tourism and catering, tourism associations, NGOs, etc.
  of the cross-border region of Bulgaria and Turkey.

The project is co-funded by European Union through the Interreg-IPA

CBC Bulgaria–Turkey Programme