Four Seasons Derby - food tourism in rural area

The objective of Four Seasons Derby - food tourism in rural area - project is to promote both local and international food tourism in the areas of participating LAGs. This transnational project brings food tourism opportunities close to local people and spreads European food culture traditions beyond national borders. The project enables the partners to exchange the best practices and discuss about event planning as a tool to promote food tourism. As a result, culinary events will propose a new approach to tourism.
The idea of the project is to help rural areas to increase their touristic potential, but also to help local producers to promote their produce and to exchange know-how with other stakeholders.

LAG Napoca Porolissum has experience in the managament of local development. It has implemented 4 other TNC projects.
The idea to be part of this project came from exchange of best practices with the parteners.

Objectives:
1.Exchanging good practices and techniques among project partners.
2.Promote the touristic potential of the network’s partners at an international level
3.Utilize event planning as a tool for promoting food tourism.
4.The exchange of know-how between stakeholders
Activities:
1.Identifying the local stakeholders
2.Organizing the meetings with the project partners
3.Creating the promoting materials: a website of the project, a Facebook page.
4.Attending the food festival in Finland with the local stakeholders
5.Organizing a food festival in Romania, in the LAG area
6.Creating a common product: a toolbox of good-practices for this kind of events/festivals and a video
7.Evaluation of the first year festivals
8.Creating a common toolbox for event planning

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