Good Practice - Project

Converting abandoned parish houses into tourist accommodation

A transnational cooperation project on converting abandoned parish houses to accommodate tourists.
  • CAP Implementation
  • - Programming period: 2014-2022 Austria
    - Programming period: 2014-2022 Austria

    General information

    RDP Priority
    • P6. Social inclusion and local development
    RDP Focus Area
    • 6B: Local development
    RDP Measure
    • M19: LEADER/CLLD

    Summary

    This is a LEADER transnational cooperation project about a secondary use concept for abandoned parish houses. Five local action groups in Austria and Germany developed together a concept and marketing strategy for renting these houses to tourists.

    Each LAG identified at least one pilot house to present it as its sample object. A group of experts with stakeholders from each cooperation partner educated project partners in adapting the buildings to accommodate tourists and to promote and run these places. The next step was to develop a webpage as a common booking platform.

    Results

    • A short list of parish houses was developed from each participating area;
    • The development of the tourism concept had started;
    • Development and implementation of the booking platform;
    • Partners organised four excursions to other LAGs;
    • One big network event was realized.
    Promoter

    Widum Tourismusservice GmbH

    Funding

    Total budget 187 000 (EUR)
    RDP 147 600 (EUR)
    Private 39 400 (EUR)

    Keywords

    Ressources

    English language

    gp_at_parishhouses.pdf

    (PDF – 657.22 Ko)