Presentation of the romanian national rural network at the InRuTou Networking Event

1. Promotion of sustainable tourism in
Romanian rural areas

2. Who we are?
Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September
2005 on support for rural development by the European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
Romanian National Programme for Rural Development 2007 -2013
Romanian National Rural Network

3. What we do?
Contact
Point
To animate the flow of
information regarding RDP
To stimulate the exchange of
good practices and cooperation
between network members
To maintain connections with
ERDN and EU national networks
To offer specialized assistance
for all rural stakeholders of the
network

4. TIMIŞ
(Timişoara)
SALAJ
(Zalău)
MUREŞ
(Târgu Mureş)
IAŞI
(Iaşi)
BUCUREŞTI-ILFOV
(Bucureşti)
BRĂILA
(Brăila)
DÂMBOVIŢA
(Târgovişte)
DOLJ (Craiova)
How we do it?

5. How we do it?
ACTION
PLAN
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
A10
A11
A12
B3
B4
B5
B6
Conferences
Seminars
Experts meetings
LAGS meetings
Publications
Training for LAGs
Promotion
Website
Best Practices
Thematic Working Groups
Virtual community
Cooperation

6. What about tourism?
Promotional
website

7. What about tourism?
• To encourage an integrated approach for rural tourism
• To explore new concepts in tourism
• To promote best practices
• To stimulate networking between participants
TWG 3 Promotion of sustainable tourism in
Romanian rural areas

9. STRENGHTS
 A specific rural culture, that became extinct in
the rest of Europe;
 Spectacular scenery;
 Model of interethnic coexistence.
WEAKNESSES
 Lack of basic services and infrastructure;
 Lack of training in service providers;
 Lack of integrated services.
OPORTUNITIES
 To maintain the traditions;
 To diversify the economic rural activities;
 To create associations between stakeholders.
THREATS
 The migration of young people to the cities;
 The loss of traditions;
 The reinforcement of the “weekend-break”
type tourism.
What about tourism?

10. Results
• 18 TWG were organized;
• There were more than 300 participants;
• There were more than 20 participant organizations which
became partners in existing clusters;
• One new rural touristic cluster was created;
• A network of stakeholders interested in tourism was created.

11. Proposals
• To create a guide about how to construct new tourist infrastructures
adapted to local architecture;
• To create a data base with projects that can contain valuable ideas that can
be put into practice;
• To award a bonus from the RDP or other funding programmes to those
projects that comply with the Danube strategy and the Carpathian
Convention;
• To promote rural tourism in schools.

12. Thank you very much!
Yurena Lorenzo de Quintana
Rural Development Expert
Romanian Rural Development Network
ylorenzo@rndr.ro