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Within the IronCurtain Cycling project we worked out a so called Professional guide for cycling friendly service providers, which publication aimes at the entrepreneurs intending to get familiar with the cycling tourist and make their stay more comfortable and attractive.

Participants in the training took part in eight theoretical and two practical training sessions in English, familiarizing themselves with the basics of tour management, cycling, the thematic routes developed in the project, and a number of knowledge related to tour organization, both in theory and practice.

The workshops organized by Cultural, Tourism and Sports Institution in Murska Sobota (Zavod za kulturo, turizem in šport) on 7th and 14th December 2018 aimed at developing a cooperation network and working out cycling-friendly service packages within the Iron Curtain Cycling project being implemented by the support of Interreg V-A Slovenia – Hungary Cooperation Program.

The study-tour, visiting the iron curtain memorial places lying along the border of Slovenia-Hungary, has been held on 27 October 2018 in the framework of the training.

On the first day session in Lenti the participants of module ”Basic knowledge of tour guiding” could get acquainted with the history of touring, tour guiding skills, tour organizing, tour reporting, recording, educational work of a tour guide, behaviour, activities, rights and obligations of a tour guide, route signs, equipments of a cycling tourist, packing, transporting and other activities related to touring.

Within the ICC project the project partner Vas county held two local service providers’ workshops, where they created complex regional packages for cycling tourism involving the local steakholders. In the followings we summerize the results of the workshops, then introduce the content of the tourist packages.

As part of the IronCurtainCycling project the project partner ZRS Bistra Ptuj carried out a local workshop titled "Rider - Excellent Tourist", held on October 9, 2018 in Ormož. The aim of the workshop was to organize the networking and creating bicycle-friendly packages with services.

The invitation is available only in Slovenian.

This news is available only in Hungarian and in Slovenian.

On 7 August an E-bicycle charging station was inaugurated at Apátistvánfalva, and a so called Border-stone Park was opened at Szalafő on the border. The investments have been implemented by the Self-Government Office of Vas County as a partner of Iron Curtain Cycling project being implemented in the framework of Interreg V-A Slovenia – Hungary Cooperation Program. The aim of the developments costing nearly 14 000 EUR in total is assuring new cultural, natural attractions and cycling services for the tourists visiting the region, which make it popular among the cycling tourists.