Participants of TEMPUS project met at Odessa passenger terminal
On July 20, the working meeting of the representatives of the EU project TEMPUS “Regional Competence Centre of Cruise Tourism in the Black Sea region” (Georgia and Ukraine) «CruiseT» was opened at Odessa passenger terminal, says press center of Odessa Sea Port Authority.
The representatives of Odessa regional state administration, Odessa city council, Odessa and Illyichivsk Sea Ports Authority, Black and Azov Seas Ports Association (BASPA), Association «Cruise Black Sea», teachers and students of Odessa and Kherson maritime universities , and also European partners of the project from Germany, Bulgaria and Romania took part in the event.
Greeting the participants of the meeting, the General Manager of Odessa Sea Port Authority, Mikhail Sokolov underlined, that the current situation at cruise market demands active and goal-directed activities in strengthening and upgrading the image not only of the passenger terminal of Odessa sea port, but of the whole Black Sea region.
Discussing on the significance of TEMPUS project, M. Sokolov especially underlined the support of the colleagues from Odessa National Maritime Academy and their European partners in promotion of the image-building project «Cruise Black Sea» in the form of Association of all the interested participants of the cruise market. He also expressed his hope, that their commune work in such a form, aimed only at solving of problematic issues of the branch, will bring step-by step notable and long hoped-for positive results.
Tempus is the Trans-European educational programme which supports the modernisation of higher education system and creates conditions for universities cooperation in EU countries with educational centres in partner-countries. It was founded in 1990. Up to day it comprises 27 countries in Europe, Central Asia, North Africa and Middle East. In Odessa the representatives of the project provide methodological support in teaching perfection of touristic disciplines in universities, creation of modern training bases for guide-interpreters and other specialists of tourist industry.
