10/07/2020
Balloon adventure, best practice of the Interreg V-A Romania-Bulgaria Program financed by EU through the the European Regional Development Fund-ERDF.
I think everyone wondered at some point if the clouds are made of cotton candy...
Thanks to the initiative of ARDBC Vidin, BulgariaRegional Development Agency and Business Center 2000, Bulgaria and the Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and Software Industry, Oltenia Subsidiary, almost 3000 people were actually able to find out, through project ROBG-14, Balloon adventure.
Various events where the participants, both locals and tourists, were able to fly for free, admire and shoot beautiful and unique photos of natural and historical sities, were organized. Their Instagram feed must be , right? :)
Having a budget of 485,460.00 euro, the beneficiars also organised 4 workshops with stakeholders, where the marketing strategy and this tourist product in the cross-border region of Romania-Bulgaria was also presented, but also observe the flight of a balloon.
Also, a training course for balloon ground crew, organized by the Agency for Regional Development and Business Center 2000 – Montana as a partner in the project „Balloon adventure – a new joint tourism product“ was held. The trainer was a pilot of a hot-air balloon from Romania with an impressive experience, Mihai Ilie. In 10 days, 10 men and women from Romania and Bulgaria were trained in order to assist the pilot in the preparation, raising and landing of the balloon The results was a 2 ground crew that successfully was able to practice with the participants all the lessons.
The best part of the ,, Balloon Fiest” and the other events, was the increase of visits, by 2,520 to sites of cultural and natural attraction of the CBC area. People were attracted of this amazing idea and had the opportunity to fully see beautiful places.
You may see a part of their journy in the clouds, but also read their actual results on their website : http://balloonadventure.eu/en/ or on their page : https://www.facebook.com/pg/balloon.advnenture/posts/?ref=page_internal or their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN2RM1_qKDE.