Good Practice - Project

GO Eastbelgium

An innovative LEADER project promotes hiking in the Belgian Eifel area by means of an online hiking planner tool, GPS navigation and a smartphone app.
  • CAP Implementation
  • - Programming period: 2014-2022 Belgium
    - Programming period: 2014-2022 Belgium

    General information

    RDP Priority
    • P6. Social inclusion and local development
    RDP Focus Area
    • 6B: Local development

    Summary

    The Local Action Group (LAG) ‘100 villages - 1 Future’ and the Tourism Agency of East Belgium (TAO) wanted to reorganize and revalue the hiking paths in the LEADER-region. The multitude of existing local hiking paths was insufficiently coordinated with the paths in the neighbouring villages and municipalities. The LAG stimulated cooperation between various local stakeholders such as municipalities, interest groups and tourism associations based on the shared interest in promoting the region. The  promoters  worked together  to  develop  the content which fed the development of an  online  hiking  planner  tool, GPS navigation and smartphone app.

    Results

    The Virtual Hiking Tours website was visited 22 000 times by 16 500 different users and the Go Eastbelgium app was downloaded 1 200 times.

    Promoter

    LAG ‘100 villages - 1 Future’

    Funding

    Total budget 82 650 (EUR)
    RDP 37 192 (EUR)
    Other 45 458 (EUR)

    Ressourcen

    Documents

    English language

    gp_be_goeastbelgium_web_fin_2.pdf

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