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Big
Lakes Ladoga and Paijanne - using natural and cultural
heritage as a boost of sustainable tourism development in the
big lakes network
Project
Partners
Municipality
of Sysmä (Finland)
Lodeynoe
Pole district administration (Russia)
Committee
for the Affairs of the Youth, Sport and Tourism under the
Government of the Leningrad Region (Russia)
Baltic
Fund for Nature of St.Petersburg Naturalists Society (Russia)
Project
period
30.11.2002
–
29.
05.2004
Sources
of funding
Tacis CBC Small Project Facility
Overall
objective
To
develop, test and implement techniques for spatial planning of
sustainable use of natural and cultural resources of large
lakes' regions, and for social and economic development of
rural territories (municipalities) and long-term conservation
of natural and cultural landscapes.
Short-term
goals
-
International
co-operation under the Baltic Agenda 21 (Sustainable
development: tourism) by adding the Russian component (The
Lake Ladoga) to the network of sustainable tourism
development on large lakes of Northern Europe (Norway,
Sweden, Finland, Estonia - Big Lakes 1 and 2)
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Development
of legal and material and technical basis for the
development of natural tourism in the Lake Ladoga region
and in Leningrad region as a whole.
-
Sustainable
development (environmentally friendly development of
social and economic sectors) of municipal agencies by
means of organizing nature tourism on their territory.
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Promotion
of the identity (proude and responsibility for the
territory) of the local people and of attractiveness of
the region for visitors.
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Development
of cross-sectoral co-operation (authorities - business -
society) upon resolving complex issues of rural
territories' support.
Links
with Interreg
This
project is a parallel for Interreg III B BSR project “Sensitive
Nordic Big Lakes/Big Lakes II”
submitted
for
1.10 2002 Tender.
The project partners are Lake Ladoga in Russia, Lake Päijänne
in Finland, Lake Vänern in Sweden, Lake Mjösa in
Norway and Lake Peipsi in Estonia as a Phare-partner.
Main
activities
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Establishment
of the infrastructure in the Lake Ladoga region
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Revival
of local handicrafts
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Development
of ecological tourist products
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Pilot
tour on developed nature routs and seminar “Ladoga
Region: Potential for Ecotourism Development”
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Preparation
of the technical manual on nature tourism organization in
Ladoga region
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Development
of the regional action schedule and plan for nature
tourism development in Leningrad region
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Activities
aimed at involvement of the local population in resolving
the issue of nature conservation
People
to contact
Ms.
Anne-Marie Salmi, +358-3-8114
200, anne-marie.salmi@neopoli.fi
Mr.
Sergey Rezvyi, +7-812-328 96 20, baltic@teia.org |