BALKANiA is a Balkan Association for Alternative Tourism focused on local sustainable economic development through alternative forms of tourism in macro sectors identified as: - Natural Tourism - Cultural Tourism - Rural Tourism - Sport Tourism

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BALKANIA is an association for Balkan Alternative Tourism and its activities include realization of projects in the field of alternative tourism which enable the promotion of Macedonia and the entire Balkan region as an attractive tourist destination with exceptional natural, historical, cultural and anthropological heritage. In addition to that, it focuses on projects and activities that help foster human capacity development in the field of tourism.

D.I.A.N.A.-Developing Inclusive and Accessible Natural Areas 

We have initiated the project D.I.A.N.A. – Developing Inclusive and Accessible Natural Areas – which is an Erasmus+ project (KA210 VET – Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training project) implemented by three European organisations: D.A.F.N.E SOC.COOP. from Italy, ABAT Balkania from Macedonia, and KOAN Consulting from Spain to support the development of accessible and inclusive skills of those tourism operators who operate in protected natural areas.

About the project
The key area where the tourism sector in Europe can increase its offerings of sustainable and higher quality products and services, with greater
value for customers, is by making tourism offers “accessible for all”. The vision of the project is to enhance the accessibility of protected natural areas, starting from those in Italy and Macedonia, for all types of visitors by reducing the lack of human resources trained to cater with customers with accessibility needs in the tourism sector.

With this project we have 4 main outputs that will help us achieve the goal to promote inclusive cultural participation by improving the accessible hospitality skills of tour operators in natural areas, including nature and hiking guides.

  1. A Compendium of best practices in Accessibility and Inclusive Tourism in protected natural areas
    The Compendium of best practices is a unique document which collects the most relevant good practices and examples about accessible solutions applied in nature areas around the world.
  2. An Accessible and Inclusive Tourism in Nature Areas Training Toolkit
    The Toolkit is a practical handbook to improve nature guides’ competences for promoting and implementing inclusive tours in natural areas. It contains short theoretical explanations and concrete practical advice, recommendations and activities to become an accessible nature guide.
  3. Short piloting training sessions
    Two-days focused training sessions in Italy and Macedonia during which the nature and hiking guides will test and validate the Accessible and Inclusive Tourism in Nature Areas Training Toolkit.
  4. Dissemination activities
    Local round tables with stakeholders, internal and external events and meetings, digital channels and one final multiplier event in Italy are already planned to involve stakeholders from all partner countries and beyond.

You can read more on the project dedicated website: https://dianaerasmus.eu/

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