Macedonia doesn't spend money on tourism investments

Experts consider Macedonia difficult to use the European money dedicated to support and development of tourism.

So far there is no precise data on how many vehicles have been exploited in the past years, while according to Ohrid Tourism Faculty professor Naume Marinoski, the region around Lake Ohrid in the coming period must develop more intensively.

“Macedonia is one of the countries that used them very hard IPA funds. I hope that in the next period, the procedure will be simplified for obtaining widely opened guarantees. We must basically define tourist policy carriers and hosting the tourist economy”, Naume Marinoski, professor of the Tourism Faculty.

Through the regional and local competition project in which projects also enter from the tourism field are available 24m euros.

The “is dedicated to all factors from the tourism field that will directly affect the improvement and advancement of capacities. This means investment in the share of infrastructure, with the aim of improving access to anthractions, overall infrastructure for improving tourist general impressions, investment in new and improved products or services, establishment of innovative products and expansion of the current service”, said Marija Blaz, tourism development specialist.

Blaze says the application method has already been eased. The first call has already resulted in 147 projects.