Archived - 03/20/2017 - 03/19/2019 (LatLit-65)
Heritage based agritourism product development in Latvia - Lithuania (AGRI -HERITAGE)
Project goals
Project goal is to build and promote a sustainable cross-border heritage based agritourism product covering all programme area in Latvia and Lithuania, in order to preserve cultural heritage, develop and promote cultural heritage based services and products to increase the number of visitors in the programm area.
The product will represent open farms where visitors can see and experience rural heritage in attractive way through farm visits, guided excursions and master classes to demonstrate heritage in todays life (bread baking, pottery etc.), tourism accommodation, interactive museum collections, product tasting, farm shops.
Project results
1) heritage agritourism product with 50 farms in LV and 50 farms in LT linked in 10 tour itineraries
2) knowledge assistance to heritage agritourism farms (product criteria, 3 handbooks, info seminars, product accreditation)
3) promotional and marketing campaign.
The total budget of this project is 235 881 Eur, out of them funding of European Regional Development Fund is 200 499 Eur.
Programm webpage: www.latlit.eu
Official EU webpage: www.europa.eu
This publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this documents are the sole responsibility of the Latvian Rural Tourism Association "Lauku ceļotājs" and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.
