The final conference of the Your Local Guide project took place on February 9, 2021, and was organized by the North-East Regional Development Agency and the Bucovina Tourism Association.

The conference took place online, with international participation, and had as its theme: "Your Local Guide - Be the Ambassador of your local cultural heritage – Digital Marketing for a Tourism Destination".

Tourism specialists were invited to the event who spoke about the cultural heritage and the tourist destinations they represent. Along with colleagues and partners from Romania, experts from Spain, Serbia, Ireland, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, and Germany were present.

The event was held in English, and all participants received a Certificate of Attendance.

The conference agenda:

10:00 – 10:05      Welcome speech
Vasile ASANDEI, General Director North-East Regional Development Agency, Romania

10:05 – 10:20      Your Local Guide – Digital Skills in Tourism
Ana-Roxana SLEMCO, Executive Director North-East Regional Development Agency, Romania - Project Manager

10:20 – 10:30      Be digitally transformed through Serious Games
Anna STAMOULI, CCS Digital Education, Ireland

10:30 – 10:45      How Blogging & Social Media may enhance the valorisation of cultural heritage
Elena PASCHINGER, CreativElena, Austria

10:45 – 11:00      An innovative way for discovering cultural heritage sites: the experience of treasure hunting
Aleksandra BOROVIĆ, Link Group, Serbia

11:00 – 11:15      Visit Covasna Safe Place
Robert GRÜMAN, Covasna County Council, Romania

11:15 – 11:30      Digitalizing and promoting cultural routes
Natalie ASMUSSEN, DomSpain, Spain

11:30 – 11:40      Coffee & Tea Break

11:40 – 11:50      The main challenges of preserving and promoting cultural heritage in Germany
Karin DRDA-KÜHN, Kultur und Arbeit, Germany

11:50 – 12:05      Green Tourism in Sibiu county, a sustainable development for the future
Alin CHIPAILA, Sibiu County Tourism Association, Romania

12:05 – 12:20      Veliko Tarnovo: a Bulgarian good practice of tourism destination management and preservation of cultural heritage
Nikolai TZOLEV, RCCI Ruse, Bulgaria

12:20 – 12:35      The European Tourism Convention 2020: opportunities to travel again to remote areas
Ifigeneia METAXA, Atlantis Engineering, Greece

12:35 – 12:50      Cultural Heritage of Prahova Destination
Adrian VOICAN, Prahova Tourism Association, Romania

12:50 – 13:05      Bucovina Brunch – how to involve local communities in preserving and promoting their cultural heritage
Carmen CHASOVSCHI, Bucovina Tourism Association / Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania

13:05 – 13:50      Q&A Press conference

The conference agenda can be downloaded as a PDF from the following link: Conference Agenda

Download the presentations as PDF:

Your Local Guide – Digital Skills in Tourism - Ana-Roxana SLEMCO, Executive Director North-East Regional Development Agency, Romania - Project Manager

Be digitally transformed through Serious Games - Anna STAMOULI, CCS Digital Education, Ireland

How Blogging & Social Media may enhance the valorisation of cultural heritage - Elena PASCHINGER, CreativElena, Austria

An innovative way for discovering cultural heritage sites: the experience of treasure hunting - Aleksandra BOROVIĆ, Link Group, Serbia

Visit Covasna Safe Place - Robert GRÜMAN, Covasna County Council, Romania

Digitalizing and promoting cultural routes  - Natalie ASMUSSEN, DomSpain, Spain

Green Tourism in Sibiu county, a sustainable development for the future - Alin CHIPAILA, Sibiu County Tourism Association, Romania

Veliko Tarnovo: a Bulgarian good practice of tourism destination management and preservation of cultural heritage - Nikolai TZOLEV, RCCI Ruse, Bulgaria

The European Tourism Convention 2020: opportunities to travel again to remote areas - Ifigeneia METAXA, Atlantis Engineering, DLearn, Greece

Cultural Heritage of Prahova Destination - Adrian VOICAN, Prahova Tourism Association, Romania

Bucovina Brunch – how to involve local communities in preserving and promoting their cultural heritage - Carmen Chasovschi, Bucovina Tourism Association / Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania