People Powered Tourism:  empowerment of local communities through co-designing experience based transformative travel to enhance visitor economy

 On May 29, 2025, the Chișinău Municipal Council approved Decision No. 2/17 “Regarding the implementation of the People Powered Tourism Project,” through which the participation of the Chișinău City Hall as a Partner in the implementation of the People Powered Tourism project was approved.

Within the People Powered Tourism partnership 14 project partners from 10 Danube Region countries join their efforts to empower local communities (incl. marginalised groups) in less frequented neighbourhoods of touristic cities and remote rural areas close to them via social innovation schemes, enabling them to valorise their unexploited cultural/natural assets and co-design sustainable, experience-based, transformative tourism services to establish or enhance their visitor economy and generate socio-economic benefits locally. The broad partnership, representing different types of organisations, boards complementary knowledge, and is supported by 12 ASPs from 9 Danube Region countries.