Cross border cooperation –promoter of tourism development



Training and employment;

Support of trade organizations, professional associations in cooperation
between borders;

Roads;

Cooperation in higher education;

Development planning.

The EU support in cross border cooperation field can be evaluated by implemented
projects in tourism field in Latvia because great part of all funded projects in cross
border cooperation is related to tourism (see table 2). Unfortunately, author could not
fill full information from 1994 till 2003 about EU funded projects in cross border
cooperation because responsible institutions are changed during this time and
information was not available.

Table 2. EU funded projects in Latvia in cross border cooperation

Programme, year

Total number of
accepted projects

Number of projects related to
tourism______________________

Phare 2000. Economic and
social cohesion measures
in Latgale and Zemgale

Travel around Latgale by IT

Phare 2000 programme
“Special Actions in Baltic
Sea Region”_____________

Business directory of Euroregion
“Country of lakes”

Phare CBC Small projects,
2001____________________

14

1

Phare CBC 2001 Small
projects in Zemgale region

^6

1

Phare CBC 2000________

13 projects_________

8 projects_________________________

Phare CREDO, 1997

Tourism in Selija________________

Phare CREDO, 1998

Environmentally friendly
tourism development in
Veclaicene and Haanja parks.

Phare BSPF, 1998

Tourism Information Centres in
East European TICET__________

Phare Access

Landscape project in South East
of Latvia______________________

Everybody travelling around country and around Baltic States can easily notice the

implemented projects in tourism sector. There are two hard outcomes: maps and signs
on the roads, written information materials - editions. The total impact of tourism
development projects could not evaluate according restricted information, but



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