The first workshop within the People Powered Tourism project took place in Chișinău on October 29, 2025. The workshop, organized as part of the People Powered Tourism project, is an initiative dedicated to the development of community-based and circular tourism in the Republic of Moldova. The project aims to actively involve local communities in the process of promoting cultural, natural, and creative heritage through collaboration between artisans, local entrepreneurs, public institutions, and non-governmental organizations.
The workshop was dedicated to local actors in the fields of tourism, crafts, and the creative economy, providing an open space for dialogue, collaboration, and co-creation between folk craftsmen, representatives of the HoReCa sector, relevant NGOs, central and local authorities, and incoming tourism operators.
The main purpose of the event was to identify common challenges in activating local tourism potential and to generate practical solutions through participatory exercises designed to support the development of a sustainable collaborative network.
The common task of the mixed groups formed during the event was to identify problems and concrete solutions, with the aim of developing joint actions that would generate mutual benefits – for tourists, economic agents, and the community.

The first workshop within the People Powered Tourism project took place in Chișinău on October 29.
The event facilitated the exchange of ideas and best practices among participants, laying the foundations for cross-sectoral cooperation in favor of sustainable, inclusive, and people-oriented local tourism.
The People Powered Tourism project promotes the involvement of local communities in tourism development and encourages collaboration between economic, cultural, and institutional actors to capitalize on local heritage and resources, thus contributing to the strengthening of the cultural and economic identity of the regions of the Republic of Moldova and the entire Danube region.
Important: The People Powered Tourism project is implemented within the Interreg Danube Region Transnational Program and brings together partners from 10 countries in the region (5 EU countries – Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia, and 5 non-EU countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine). This three-year transnational cooperation contributes to strengthening relations between the countries in the Danube basin and promoting a common model for sustainable tourism development.