Project acronym: Mala barka 2 (1.839.786,75 EUR ERDF)
Lead Partner: Primorsko – goranska županija
Project Partners: Turistička zajednica Primorsko – goranske županije, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka, Udruga i Ekomuzej „Kuća o batani“, Občina Izola, Turistička zajednica Izola, Občina Piran, Pomorski muzej-Museo del mare “Sergej Mašera” Piran-Pirano
The main project goal is preservation, protection, promotion and development of the maritime heritage in the border area through the valorisation of the principles of sustainable tourism. The project will protect realistic and unrealistic maritime heritage throughout the coastal part of the border area and will use them for the development and creation of a joint tourist product. Cross-border cooperation multiplies the effect, as the joint development promises better quality and greater efficiency and exchange of tourists. Maritime heritage is a large, untapped tourism potential of both countries. Given the trend of changing habits of tourists who are becoming increasingly mobile and during their stay they wish to visit more cities and countries, small distances between destinations can satisfy their needs. In this way, we are becoming a unique tourist area.
Integrated cross-border cultural tourism product will integrate contents and will increase the economic, social and cultural cross-border exchange. Tourist operators will promote the two border regions as one integrated cross-border destination by promoting the similarity of the Regions and the complementarity of the common cultural offerings.
The key result will be increase in the number of visitors of the border area, increase in the number of permanently protected artifacts of maritimes realistic and unrealistic heritage (with interpretational centers, virtual museums, base of maritime heritage, technical characteristics of vessels), increase in tourism infrastructure, based on the maritime heritage (interpretation centers Nerezine, Krk, Izola and Piran, reconstruction of small boats, which will be “live” examples and showroom specimens in small harbors and on regattas), increase in the number of educated children and visitors about marine crafts and arts (Academy of marine crafts and skills) and identification of the whole coastal frontier area as a single tourist destination.
