The Challenges of the Untouched Nature. Development of multilingual (Macedonian, English) web tourist portal and database of tourist services for Municipality Demir Hisar. The objective of the web portal was to provide comprehensive  “one-stop” data content together with relevant site linkages, a booking engine, and a payment gateway, to enable travellers to make ground handling and accommodation arrangements.  Specifically the portal is: - a fully maintained web site with text and images providing up-to-date information on the tourism infrastructure in the Demir Hisar region, with specific relevance to the two identified products/themes, hunting tourism and ecotourism based on natural and cultural heritage. - a database-driven portal that interfaces with industry sites (hotels, tour operators, ground handlers, destination management companies, etc.) and has a secure payment gateway and processing facility.

Project partially funded by European Union, INTERRREG programme

Representative of the Gauss Insistute participated on the Study Tour in Brussels: Developing community-based provision of social services for people with disabilities.