PLANNING
The Region is committed to the Canal du Nivernais
The Regional Chair, co-signed in December 2008, the Convention on the Canal du Nivernais Leader 2008-2015, alongside the state, and Cnasea Syndicat Mixte d'Equipement Touristique du Nivernais canal.
Heavily involved in the development of the Canal du Nivernais, the Region has co-signed the agreement, which aims primarily to raise funds to develop the European entertainment and tourism offer of the Canal du Nivernais.
The program leader of the canal du Nivernais mobilizes € 2M credit EAFRD (European funds) over the period 2008-2013. The Burgundy region is the first financial partner program with a budget of € 700 000.
The agreement is part of the development strategy of the Canal du Nivernais whose agenda includes three main areas:
Publicize the Nivernais to attract new visitors
- With the implementation of promotional tools and communication (press reports, films, works on the canal, but also cultural and sporting events, tourist events, etc..)
- Through the establishment, development and promotion of road bikes.
Make the Canal du Nivernais a tourist destination copy
so that the tourists happy, become ambassadors for the channel:
- Improving information and guidance to tourists on site (communication, signaling, development)
- By developing and perfecting service delivery (training of professionals, setting up a scheme of service, implementation of a quality, etc..)
- By emphasizing local production (points of sale, farm accommodation, promotion, products, etc..)
- By bringing together the actors of the economic territory.
Attract private investors
- By establishing a survey of investors,
- By setting up an observatory of tourism channel (statistical arguments)
- By supporting investors in their projects (to assist the feasibility study, support for environmental efforts, issues specific to the channel, etc..).
Namely
The Nivernais Canal, whose construction began in 1784, was originally designed to allow the supply of firewood in the Paris region by the Morvan. Become over the years a tourist channel, it is the first to take the path of river tourism in the early 1970s.
- Article du 15/12/2008 14:33, modifié le 12/04/2010 15:49 -