{"id":3160512,"date":"2022-08-18T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/scout-camp-open-for-adventures-in-north-macedonia\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:55:29","slug":"scout-camp-open-for-adventures-in-north-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/scout-camp-open-for-adventures-in-north-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scout camp open for adventures in North Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAn EU-funded project supports improvement of facilities and services at a scout camp in Struga.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krste-Jon Scout Camp van be found in a great location: close to the woods as well as the beach along Lake Ohrid.It is \u00a0also near the city centre of \u00a0Struga. The scout camp opened in the 1970s with very basic infrastructure, and the first additional investments in the camp weren\u2019t made until 2003, when the municipality funded construction of the first concrete building containing eight rooms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cWe had major infrastructure-related problems: we didn\u2019t have toilets, hot water, or lighting.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marjan Glavinceski is the head of the Krste-Jon Struga civil society organisation that manages the camp. He explains that despite the beautiful environment where the camp is located, it was not really attractive to visitors. \u201cWe had major infrastructure-related problems: we didn\u2019t have toilets, hot water, or lighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily, possibilities opened up for this scout camp three years ago when the camp management decided to look for support to improve its conditions. They looked \u00a0found it from the European Union, and together they turned the camp into one of the most attractive sites in the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU-funded Local and Regional Competitiveness Project supported the camp to improve its physical infrastructure as well as to launch new attractions for visitors. To date, the camp has built seven stilted chalets, extended the existing building and improved the infrastructure of the tent pitches. As a result, the camp can now accommodate up to 200 visitors at a time, providing them with proper toilets and hot water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project also launched new adventure tourism services, including \u00a0scuba diving, bicycle and hiking tours, and kayaking. The project helped purchase equipment for these attractions and supported the training of the instructors. \u201cNow we are able to keep our visitors busy throughout their stay: if they stay for five days, they have a different thing to do each day. The scuba diving in Ohrid lake is currently the most sought-after attraction among visitors,\u201d says Marjan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cThe EU support was crucial. We are a small organisation working locally, and had no potential for growth without this support.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the project <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Local and Regional Competitiveness Project (LRCP) is a four-year investment operation financed with a grant from the European Union (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance &#8211; IPA II). The project offers a holistic approach to tourism development and destination management and will provide investment funding and capacity building to support sector growth, investment in destinations, and specific destination prosperity. The LRCP objective is to enhance the contribution of tourism to local economic development and improve the capacity of the government and public entities to foster tourism growth and facilitate destination management.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marjan explains that as a result of the project the number of visitors has increased considerably, and last year the number of visitors from abroad was higher than those from North Macedonia. \u201cThe EU support was crucial. We are a small organisation working locally, and had no potential for growth without this support,\u201d says Marjan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campsite invested last year\u2019s profit in further improvement of infrastructure and they have plans to introduce new attractions such asparagliding in the future. \u201cWe want to develop further and become an important player in the adventure tourism market in the Western Balkans,\u201d says Marjan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An EU-funded project supports improvement of facilities and services at a scout camp in Struga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3160513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"area-of-cooperation":[419,512],"country":[249],"opportunity-type":[],"class_list":["post-3160512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","area-of-cooperation-competitiveness-and-growth","area-of-cooperation-rural-development","country-north-macedonia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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