Capacity Building

Set of training for service providers in adventure tourism organized in Plav, Montenegro, Lepushe, Albania and Rugova, Kosovo*.

Through practical work–cooking classes, participants had the opportunity to work with professional chefs and sommeliers upgrading their knowledge of preparing and paring food with rakija and wine.

During culinary training, participants took interactive contribution, and they expressed interest in this type of the training. Overall this workshop was with positive feedback , sharing knowledge among each other in the field of rural tourism.

Within the two-day training seventeen participants had an opportunity to learn more about guide for the current legislation and administrative procedures in rural tourism in North Macedonia, added values, storytelling, paring food and beverage, safety standards of preparing food, calculation of meals/food/normative.

Tourist guides need to present the Western Balkan region on best possible way, and in same time to lower or to eliminate all the risks on mountains. Very often this is a challenge both for ski touring and snowshoeing guides. Accordingly, two trainings for tourist guides were organized in Kosovo*.

During the training participants had a chance to improve their theoretical knowledge, practical experiences and tools to increase the competitiveness of services in the guiding services, F&B services and availability od information and equipment for outdoor activities.