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Macedonia, Greece and Albania Develop Prespa Region as Joint Tourist Destination
A joint project between Macedonia, Greece, and Albania aims to turn the Prespa Lakes region into a tourist destination.
The creation of Prespa Park - the first trans-boundary protected area in Southeast Europe, was supported by the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Environment Facility.
Its creation is expected to enrich tourism opportunities in the region, without acting as competition of the nearby Ohrid Lake, the horemag.bg website reported.
Recently, town mayors, private business and non governmental organisations’ representatives from Macedonia, Greece and Albania gathered to discuss the latest version of the strategy for the development of tourism in the area of the Prespa Lakes, according to the Macedonian Information Agency.
Local experts estimate the capacity of the Albanian part of the lakes’ coast to be at just 75 bed, the Greek part – at 300 beds and the Macedonian part – at 7,200 beds. In the next two decades, the project aims to overcome the differences in infrastructure development in the three countries, as well as the implementation of joint environmental policies.
The Prespa region houses two freshwater lakes at an altitude of 853 metres, making them the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans. The Great Prespa Lake is divided between Albania, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, while the Small Prespa Lake is shared only between Greece and Albania.
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A joint project between Macedonia, Greece, and Albania aims to turn the Prespa Lakes region into a tourist destination.
The creation of Prespa Park - the first trans-boundary protected area in Southeast Europe, was supported by the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Environment Facility.
Its creation is expected to enrich tourism opportunities in the region, without acting as competition of the nearby Ohrid Lake, the horemag.bg website reported.
Recently, town mayors, private business and non governmental organisations’ representatives from Macedonia, Greece and Albania gathered to discuss the latest version of the strategy for the development of tourism in the area of the Prespa Lakes, according to the Macedonian Information Agency.
Local experts estimate the capacity of the Albanian part of the lakes’ coast to be at just 75 bed, the Greek part – at 300 beds and the Macedonian part – at 7,200 beds. In the next two decades, the project aims to overcome the differences in infrastructure development in the three countries, as well as the implementation of joint environmental policies.
The Prespa region houses two freshwater lakes at an altitude of 853 metres, making them the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans. The Great Prespa Lake is divided between Albania, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, while the Small Prespa Lake is shared only between Greece and Albania.
http://www.balkantravellers.com/images/stories/news/prespa_lake.jpg