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Abstract
Nowadays, ecotourism is one of the fastest growing travel industries in the world. People are promoting ecotourism because it provide a fun, relaxing vacation while protecting the surrounding ecosystem and environment. Ecotourism is like education for the participants who implement an eco-friendly lifestyle, while preserving and protecting the national regions all over the world. Students from rural tourism in our high school are studying a subject called Alternative forms of tourism with 72 lessons per year, 2 per week. It is a subject where all type of tourism are mentioned, but as important thing for the world, there are many classes dedicated to eco tourism. There are mentioned the main definition for eco tourism defined by the International Ecological Society, historical development of eco tourism, participants in eco tourism, analyze of eco facilities and their building, eco tourism in Europe, eco tourism in the world and eco tourism in Macedonia.
Eco tourism is a relatively new and young discipline, alternative form of tourism, which implementation and development will be intensive in the future. The students in the school need to be educated theoretical and practical from more developed European partner high school, with more experience and more successes in the field of eco tourism. Macedonia has so much opportunities to develop this type of tourism, but the promoters of eco tourism here, need someone who is already successful, with more experience to share it. Novo Mesto is an ideal place for achieving our goal. There is connection between this two partner school, which is useful for both, Macedonian and Slovenian high school.
The group of students from the High School who will attend the practical vocational training in Slovenia comprises of 24 students of the tourism and hospitality vocational education, with paying more attention to rural and eco tourism. The mobility will take place in Novo Mesto, organized to stay 2 weeks in the high school GRM.
The knowledge and experience students acquire will be shared with other students in the school and in other tourist-catering schools.
-First they will have sessions with their friends from the school in order to share what they learned and saw. The sessions will take place in rural area of Poreche where they will be able to show what they learned.
-Two eco tourism tourist products will be developed involving students who wer trained in Slovenia.
-The project and the project results will be also shared with other students and teachers that will attend the workshop to be held in the Naum Ohridski school.
The project will also develop a Guidebook for Eco Tourism Product Development that will be disseminated in other secondary vocational schools. It will be available on Macedonia and Albanian language as well as on the website of the school.
Makedonski brod and the region of Poreche has significant potential for development of the eco tourism. The region is located in the central Macedonian close to Skopje and many tourists can visit the region on daily basis. Its potential can be valorized in combination with the other form of rural, alternative tourism and can be a good base for faster economic development of the region and reduction of the unemployment.
The cooperation with the Center for vocational education and training will enable accomplishment of longterm objectives because efforts will be put into integrating ecotourism in the educational programs of certain school subjects.
