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Conference ‘Development of student participation in local history exploration and tourism in East Kazakhstan oblast’, December, 12, 2014.

In order to attract attention of LRAs to support youth tourism and social integration programmes (social tours) for disadvantaged people with necessary legislation changes and financial support from the regional budget NGO TEC in cooperation with Administration of East Kazakhstan oblast and with its' financial support arranged on 12 December 2014 a conference titled ‘Development of student participation in local history exploration and tourism in East Kazakhstan oblast’.

Study tour "Ecological tourism and education in the national parks of Austria and Slovenia", October 19-28, 2014

Representatives of the Akimat of Eastern Kazakhstan, NGO EcoAltai, Western Altai Nature Reserve, Katon-Karagay National Park and two sanatoria Rachmanovske Kluchi and Maralenok had a chance to visit four national parks in Austria and Slovenia in order to learn more about rural and ecological tourism in these areas. The study tour was prepared and led by NGO Machaon International from Slovakia and Gesäuse National Park from Austria as part of the project "Golden Altai – wealth for local development", supported by the European Union.

Study-tour "Protected areas and local communities - from conflict to contradiction' in the Kenozero National Park (Russia), June, 2014

An international seminar/study-tour "Protected areas and local communities - from conflict to contradiction' was held in the Kenozero National Park attended by representatives of the regional and local governments, employees of protected areas from different parts of Russia, NGOs and other organizations. 7 participants from Kazakhstan took part.

"Study tour to the Hungary, Slovak and Czech Republics, Germany and Austria", 11-26 May, 2014

The study tour was organized by the Machaon International in cooperation with main project partner NGO Sosna and associated partner Wallachian open-air museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm for four participants from Kazakhstan. These included employees of the regional coordinators NGOs EcoAltai, Boomerang and TEC and director of one of the pilot protected areas Western Altai Nature reserve.

Position conference "Rural tourism - a resource for development of rural mountain areas", April, 2014

The position conference "Rural tourism - a resource for development of rural mountain areas" organized by Machaon International and EcoAltai in April 2014 was attended by key stakeholders (municipal and village authorities, protected areas, entrepreneurs in agriculture and tourism, NGOs and other cultural actors - 43 participants in total). The conference was hosted by the Akimat of Eastern Kazakhstan oblast, which also invited representatives of all district akimats to the conference.

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