Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
• To implement a program for publicizing tourism opportunities in RMNP (incl. by
putting up information boards at the main entry points, in gateway communities
and by providing appropriate promotional materials at visitor information
centers).
Long-term goal 4.4.2 To encourage new forms of tourism that are not in
conflict with the preceding goal and that provide opportunities for income
generation and profits.
Operational objectives:
• To build an ethnographic theme park showcasing traditional arts and crafts and to
ensure the natural separation of visitors seeking rest and recreation from those
preferring privacy and contact with nature;
• To build, at a suitable location and in compliance with the internationally
established norms, an eco-lodge as a specific form of tourist facility and a source
of significant income;
• To diversify the range of tourism services by themes and subjects of human
interest (nature, history, recreation, horseback riding, etc.), and to set up special
interest routes, etc.
• To establish and develop a system of environmentally sound transportation in the
park using suitable vehicles (road trains, horse-carts, internal vehicle transport,
etc.);
• To set up, at suitable places and in compliance with environmental protection
requirements, special shelters for observing animals in the wild.
4.5 Interpretation and education
Long-term goal 4.5.1 To present the natural, cultural and religious heritage
of RMNP in ways and by means that would contribute most fully to people’s
personal enrichment and their involvement in the preservation of orthodox values
and the conservation of nature.
Operational objectives:
• To develop and implement a comprehensive plan for interpretative activities
within RMNP, that would reflect the unity and harmony between religious,
natural and cultural values in the Park:
- To identify the basic facts regarding the natural, religious and cultural heritage of
the Nature Park as the basis for producing comprehensive information materials
(printed, audio-visual, CD-ROM, etc.);
- To apply both traditional (visitor information centers, printed materials,
information boards etc.) as well as innovative (Internet, audio-visual and
multimedia products) forms of interpretation;
• To implement a program for using interpretation tools and approaches to increase
public awareness of the need to conserve the spiritual and cultural values in
RMNP:
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