{"id":33887,"date":"2012-10-02T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vidzeme.testeris.lv\/first-project-tourage-annual-conference-is-concluded\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T09:37:39","slug":"first-project-tourage-annual-conference-is-concluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vidzeme.lv\/en\/first-project-tourage-annual-conference-is-concluded\/","title":{"rendered":"First project “TOURAGE” Annual Conference is concluded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cGood practices of senior tourism can be an instrument for dealing with depopulation, unemployment and other economical regression issues in Europe Unions remote areas.\u201d With this idea project\u2019s \u201cTourage\u201d 1st Annual Conference in Granada, Spain, has concluded.<\/p>\n

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With the special attention to European year for Active ageing and Solidarity\u00a0 between Generations 2012 – conferences first speaker Ms. Maite Pozo Querol – Institute for Elderly and Social Services of Spain- introduced participants with the activities in Spain in terms of the specific year.<\/p>\n

As the economical growth is the main issue in most of the EU countries, Spain is one of the rare ones which is successfully dealing with depopulation and unemployment issues with the senior tourism development. One of the most successful development programs has been connected to external and internal senior tourism promotion. Programs \u201cEurope Senior Tourism\u201d representative – Ms. Marta Santamar\u00eda Garc\u00eda – emphasizes: \u201cWith the special offer for seniors all over the EU, Spain has implemented the senior tourism program which allows elder tourists visit the country in \u201cnon-season\u201d for lover and more acceptable prices.\u201d It gives an exclusive possibility for senior tourists visit most popular touristic destinations for cheaper price and allows the entrepreneurs and regional authorities from the certain counties develop economic and tourism in \u201clow season\u201d with greater numbers.<\/p>\n

Other possibility for tourists from Spain is program developed by IMSERSO (Institute for Elderly and Social Services of Spain). With its success in more than 25 years program can call itself as self-financed program because of its income numbers, which covers all the support government has invested.<\/p>\n

The TOURAGE project is focusing on the exchange of experience among partners, and especially using the good practice exchange methodology. In the context of the INTERREG IVC programme, a \u00ab good practice is defined as an initiative (e.g. methodologies, projects, processes, techniques) undertaken in one of the programme\u2019s thematic priorities which has already proved successful and which has the potential to be transferred to a different geographic area \u00bb The 2nd part of the conference was for one transferable good practice presented by each partner.<\/p>\n

Twelve different practices were presented in several themes:<\/p>\n