Tourismusentwicklung Bhutan - Implementierung Master Plan (TA + Local Costs)



Contract partner: GNHC / RGoB - Gross National Happiness Commission - Royal Government of Bhutan Country: Bhutan Funding amount: € 150.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2006 End: 30.06.2010

Short Description:

Overall goal


With the Austrian assistance, the Department of Tourism completed a Tourism Master Plan (Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy - STDS 2005) to guide the growth of Bhutan Tourism Industry. A number of activities have been identified in the Tourism Master Plan (STDS 2005) for development under the implementation strategies. The strategies are sub-divided in to short term, medium term and long term based on various timeframes. The implementation of the Master Plan strategies is intended to bring more balanced regional development, equitable distribution of earnings from Tourism, community participation, village tourism etc and in a nutshell the tourism sector of Bhutan will make efforts to focus towards pro-poor tourism which will be in alignment with the main objective of the 10th FYPs of RGoB as well as the OEZA guidelines. It is crucial that the Department develop a sound work plan for the implementation of the short, medium and long term programmes/activities of the Tourism Master Plan (STDS 2005).


In the framework of this Project the Department of Tourism will receive assistance towards the implementation of the Master Plan. The project, with the assistance of short term Expert, will prioritize programmes/activities based on the recommendations of the Project Progress Review Meeting (PPRM) and identify capacity building activities which are relevant/necessary for the implementation of the Tourism Master Plan (STDS 2005). Another output of this project is the classification of tourist accommodations and the training of the relevant Bhutanese monitoring bodies for this classification system.

project number 2044-00/2006
source of funding OEZA
sector Tourismus
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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