TOURAL Kutsurub rural region

📍On November 15, a working meeting of the TOURAL project participants from National Ecological Centre of Ukraine TOURAL Kutsurub rural region with representatives of the local community, businesses, and authorities took place in the Kutsurub community. 🔍During the meeting, project manager Diana Krysynska presented the TOURAL project and its interim results. Mykola Hrubyi highlighted the prospects for collaboration between the NGO "Kinbur" and the Kutsurub community within the project's framework. 🖇️Thanks to the productive engagement of tourism industry experts, obstacles, development directions, and future opportunities for the tourism industry in the Kutsurub community were identified. 📌Additionally, a survey was conducted to gather local perspectives on a model for further collaboration to revive the tourism industry in the Kutsurub community. 🧷The facilitation session was conducted by Ruslan Volchetskyi. Video material: Anna Kosmachova #NECU #Toural #Kinburn #SustainableTourism #CommunityDevelopment #Ecotourism #TourismUkraine #LocalInitiatives #CollaborationForFuture #TravelUkraine #GreenTourism #RuralDevelopment #VisitKutsurub #KinburnPeninsula #EcoProjects

📌 October 31st - International day of the Black Sea In our current reality, this day holds even greater significance for every Ukrainian, as we are confronted with the pollution of the Black Sea by explosive substances. The war exerts a profound impact not only on shipping, tourism, and the environment, but also on the destruction of marine life within the Black Sea. 🚩 During the full-scale invasion, the number of dolphin deaths within the Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park rose from about twenty per year to three thousand in just two years. Overall, along the Black Sea coast, more than 50,000 dolphins have perished, and hundreds more have suffered acoustic trauma. 🩵 The Black Sea requires urgent protection and restoration. Together with the TOURAL project team, we are working to revive tourism on the Mykolaiv coast. Source: https://lnkd.in/gQqCeaTB

🚀 Behind the Scenes at the TOURAL 2nd Project Meeting! Take a sneak peek backstage where innovation meets dedication! Stay tuned for more updates as we forge ahead on this exciting journey! Read more 👉 https://shorturl.at/raquZ #Toural #SustainableTourism #CulturalHeritage #Alonissos #InnovationInTourism #projectmeeting Balkan Heritage Foundation & Field School Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) International Hellenic University Ατλαντίς Συμβουλευτική Α.Ε. | Atlantis Consulting SA International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) European Research Executive Agency (REA) TOURAL Kutsurub rural region

📍As part of the TOURAL project Diana Krysinska and Inna Tymchenko participated in an event in Alonissos, Greece, from September 30 to October 2, 2024. 👩💻On the first day of the event, the team from the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine presented the results of their work on interaction and building a sustainable tourism development model in the Kutsurub community, with particular attention to engaging local stakeholders. 🖇️Additionally, representatives from our team participated in a meeting of the leaders of Work Packages WP1 (organized by CERTH) and WP2 (organized by ICBSS), where they presented the results achieved during the previous period, outlined key moments for upcoming tasks related to the implementation of the Living Lab, and discussed stakeholder engagement.

Bivalve Plant «Almus» 👥 Continuing to introduce you to stakeholders of the project. 🐚 In 2017, in collaboration with a Turkish entrepreneur specializing in seafood, a scallop farm was established in the Kutsurub community. The farm engages in harvesting, processing, and exporting scallops. ✔️ The enterprise is certified under the ISO Food Safety Management System (ISO 22009:2018), ensuring high-quality production standards. 🙎🏼♀️🙎🏻♂️ As of 2021, the plant steadily employed over 30 individuals, creating new job opportunities within the community. Official company page: https://lnkd.in/gzcRFJSj Sources: Articles about Bivalve Plant Almus: https://lnkd.in/gjTn-YGg Photo: https://lnkd.in/gXgQBrRq

Craft Winery «OLBIO NUBO» or «OLVIA NUVO» 🆕We are back with great news. We want to start presenting our stakeholders to you. 🗞️The unique conditions for wine production in the southern regions of Ukraine are known worldwide, as confirmed by a major article about Ukrainian wines in the professional wine magazine Decanter. 🍇The «OLBIO NUBO» winery is located in the territory of the Kutsurub community and borders the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve «Olvia». 🍷Pavlo Hryhorovych Mahalyas founded OLBIO NUBO in 2013, thus establishing a family winery that has already reached a volume of 20 thousand liters per year in just 7 years and created its own ethnographic product, offering wine tastings and immersion in the unique atmosphere by the Dnipro-Buh Liman. Sources: Decanter https://lnkd.in/gNyFvjWD Official page of OLBIO NUBO winery https://lnkd.in/gf-CGHpE Illustrative materials https://lnkd.in/gT3aXhjW

🌍📅 On July 12, within the framework of the TOURAL project, implemented by the National Ecological Center of Ukraine, the first seminar-discussion "Challenges for the Tourism Industry in Wartime and Post-War Periods" took place in Berezhany. The event was organized as part of the NECU Reporting and Election Conference and was held in a hybrid mixed format, allowing part of the team to join online. 🌐 At the beginning of the event, NECU chairman Ruslan Havrilyuk gave a welcoming speech. 🗣 The event was moderated by the leader of the TOURAL project, Diana Krysinska, who presented the project, its main goals, expected results, and future plans. 🎯 Next, project expert Inna Tymchenko conducted a fascinating virtual tour of the Northern Black Sea region, immersing all discussion participants in the unique atmosphere of the Kutsurub community. 🌊🏖 In the second part of the event, reports and presentations from team members who joined online were heard. 💻 Tetiana Chychkaliuk focused her presentation on the prospects of interacting with local stakeholders during the implementation of the TOURAL project. 🤝 Next, Victoria Kiptenko presented her report. She spoke about the "Best Tourist Village of Ukraine" project and the active participation of five Ukrainian villages, one of which is not yet known nationwide but has all the resources and uses them. 🏡🇺🇦 Ruslan Volchetsky also participated in the event and proposed a list of types of tourism that should be developed in Region-6: the Kutsurub community. 🏞 The event was also attended by invited guests: Evgenios Tsartsis, Volodymyr Bakhtov, Ruslana Sikalienko. Larisa Patrusheva reported on the experience of implementing the "Chimeras of the Wild Steppe" tourism project during wartime. Ms. Larisa, the coordinator of this project, emphasized the importance of creating creative spaces for a quality immersion of tourists into the area. 🌾 Oleg Derkach gave the closing speech, emphasizing the importance of creating the "Olbian Chora" reserve as part of the National Nature Park "Bilotserkivska Svitanok." 🌳 Thus, the first public event from the Ukrainian TOURAL project team had many positive results, confirmed the interest and involvement of invited partners and stakeholders, and introduced the NECU team to the project's results for the first half of the year. 🌟 Online broadcast of the event: https://lnkd.in/egHe_yM4 More details: https://lnkd.in/eat2sYEE #NECU #TOURAL #Kutsurub #Kinburn