Information Site for Baltic Sea Tourism

It is but a few weeks since information on tourism projects and organisations in the BSR has been made available on the web site www.balticseatourism.com.

The goal of the project running last year was to enhance cross-border co-ordination and provide a site for tourism activities.

On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology, the Association German Coast - a marketing tourism alliance - was entrusted with this project. Performed by the two Rostockbased associations PROTOUR and REWAS, it took as a basis the extensive investigation on co-operation in the BSR.

This web site provides data on tourism projects and organisations in the Baltic Sea area. Possible users might be governmental and non-governmental authorities as well as the business interested. Thus, cross-border activities based on co-operation between interested partners may be developed. This is especially interesting for the multitude of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in the Baltic Sea area.

Each user is to be allowed free access to the site. Each person or organisation may public its project. Hopefully, many will use this opportunity.

It is necessary to broaden the information pool by including tourism offers generated by co-operation across the Baltic. The most important way to accomplish this is to publish projects on the web site, thus also enabling tourists to use the site as an information source.

Now, there are 34 tourism projects in the data bank. 25 of them are supported by the European Union. 260 regional, national or international tourism organisation all over the Baltic Sea region are in the data bank.