{"id":7143,"date":"2025-03-25T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwestregion.mk\/2025\/03\/25\/day-of-the-region\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:24:18","slug":"day-of-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwestregion.mk\/en\/2025\/03\/25\/day-of-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the REGION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On 23.12.2024, for the first time was organized the REGION day within the framework of the project “Sustainable and inclusive balanced regional development”, which is financially supported by the Ministry of local self-government and the Government of Switzerland.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe purpose of holding the Regional development day was to present attractive tourist potentials in the Southwest planning regions and the opportunities for creating sustainable tourism for the whole year, covering lake tourism, health, architecture, archeology, religious sites, eco-tourism, adventure tourism, culinary, tradition and other types of tourism, with the sole aim of every tourist staying extra days in the Southwest region.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Director of the Center for development, Mr. Valon Kaba, gave a presentation on regional policy, the municipalities belonging to the Southwest region, the vision, goals and implemented projects for 2024. He emphasized that the year we are ending was a very good year for the Region and the Center. During 2024, the Center for development managed to implement 7 major projects, 3 projects financed by the Programs for balanced regional development, 3 projects by the Ministry of local self-government and the Government of Switzerland and one project financed by the UNDP Program.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAt the panel discussion on the topic “The impact of balanced regional development towards sustainable urban and rural development of municipalities” panelists were the Mayor of the Municipality of Centar \u017dupa – Mr. Arijan Ibrahim; Mr. Vladislav \u017dupan – Sector for local economic development in the Municipality of Struga, Ms. Irena Zdravevska Spaseska – Sector for tourism and local economic development in the Municipality of Ohrid, Mr. Novica Kostoj\u010dinoski – Sector for Economic development in the Municipality of Vevcani, Ms. Milka Stamenkoska – Sector for local economic development in the Municipality of Makedonski Brod and Mr. Daniel Risteski – Sector for local economic development in the Municipality of Debrca.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe panelists made a cross-section of the advantages and disadvantages of the past tourist season, taking into account urban and rural areas, but also presented videos for the promotion of tourism from 9 municipalities from the Public Tourism Promotion Agency as possible tourist potentials.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn the second panel discussion, MA Valentina Pereska from the Agency for the Promotion and Support of Tourism gave a presentation. The topic of the second panel discussion was “Tourism Potential – Opportunity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Public Sector Development Area”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe recommendations that were given:\r\n