Improving the Tourism Offer in Highlands of Albania and Kosovo

Highlands of Albania and Kosovo

ALCDF IPA Cross-Border Project

Year Length Trails
2020
14 km
2

On behalf of ALCDF and their Improving Tourism Offer in Highlands of Albania and Kosovo, we undertook the transformation process of two cross-border trails:

1. Padesh, AL – Gropa e Erenikut, RKS – 6 km

2. Cahan, AL – Mount Pashtriku, RKS – 8 km

 

Our Contributions

Trails

Identification, assessment and selection of 14 hiking trails around the region of Permet, a network of trails totaling 105 km.

Signalizations

Marking and signposting of the selected routes according to the Albanian standard.

Map

Creation of topographic map and descriptions of all trails

Training

● Identification and training of 8 homestays in 8 communities ● Training of 6 local guides to guide tours in the Permet area

Marketing

Promotion and Marketing with zero budget ● Hosted three embedded British and German bloggers on Zbulo Trips ● Hosted the Rother hiking guide authors to Albania to include this area ● Presented Permet to guidebook authors who featured it five times on book covers

Books

A 76-page guide book for the active traveler on the area, the trails and hosts is available for free online and locally

Resources

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast

Maps and Guides

Documentary (in German)