Go social and discover the real place

Via this project it is aimed to develop youths' awarenes about environment and social entrepreneurship skills.

There are several definitions of social entrepreneurship ,is defined as “the process of identifying, evaluating and exploiting opportunities aiming at social value creation by means of commercial, marketbased activities and of the use of a wide range of resources” (Bacq & Janssen, 2011, p. 374).
Others defines social entrepreneurship as a process that helps to encounter market failures in local community. Social entrepreneurs are social changers, they see a social problem and they try to solve.
Tourism is considered as one of the largest and fastest developing sectors of the world. It produces the 10% of international incomes. It is truth that tourism can really improve people's live but last years we can see that tourism like an economic activity use the principles of the industrial growth. That unfortunately has negative socio- economic and cultural impacts on local communities.
Negative cost at the local community as:
1. The economic impact of all-inclusive package (mass tourism) doesn’t t go to local businessmen and workers since almost 80% of travelers’ fees goes to the airplane’s tickets, hotels and other international companies. Large hotels often import cheap workers or food and they don’t use local capability of stuff or other products. (food, crafts, workers)
2. leads to the over consumption, pollution, and lack of resources.
3. The "demonstration effect" of tourists (residents adopting tourist behaviors) in a way means that we are losing our cultural identity. We must protect our heritage, to minimize negative cultural impacts on local communities.
4. Τhe disappearance of traditional jobs. we have to promote them and to maintain them
Targets:
1. distribute social and economic wealth to individuals involved with tourism in local community
2. to minimize negative cultural impacts on local communities by keeping our heritage through education (our students will learn our history customs etc. and we will create a link at our site discover our history, customs
3. to protect the environment by creating eco-friendly experiences and by training the locals
4. to develop a ‘real’ (authentic) experience for our visitors
5. to attract more eco-friendly tourists.
We will create a website that will be used as a network to promote sustainable tourism development.

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Project overview

Go social and discover the real place is a project by
Youth Volunteers Association
taking place
from 2020-12-01 till 2022-12-01
This project relates to:
Strategic Partnerships
and is focusing on:
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environment
  • European citizenship
  • History
  • Innovation
  • Non-formal learning
  • Sustainable development

Short URL to this project:

http://otlas-project.salto-youth.net/11649

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