The Promotional Fair in Rijeka Crnojevica and Virpazar

Posted on September 14, 2011

The promotional fair of homemade products, organised within the Festival of the nature and culture this year called „Vidra Fest 2011", is the best introduction to the establishment of the Ethno-gastronomic route of the Skadar Lake. The creation of this new tourism product will be realised by CSTI from Podgorica, CERAI from Spain and QBP from Albania under the project titled „Valorisation of the Ethno-gastronomic Heritage of the Skadar Lake". This project is financed by the European Union, Ministry od Culture of Montenegro and CERAI.

On all earlier occasions, this promotional fair was organized as one-day event, but this year the participation of Albanian producers as exhibitors contributed to the fair growing into two-day event. The fair was organised in Rijeka Crnojevica on 10th September and in Virpazar on 11th September.

For the purpose of this event, CSTI made 10 exhibit stalls with excellent functional and design solutions, which will be donated to local communities to use for the future promotional actions.

During this fair, these stalls were used to exhibit high quality homemade wine, brandy, honey, delicacies made from honey, cheese, olive oil, fish specialities, vegetables, fruit, etc. Also, we reminded the fair visitors of the old artisans and handicrafts from this area, so they could enjoy the woodwork, silver filigree, kelim and handloom carpets and bags, etc.

During presentation of diversity of tourism offer and heritage of the Skadar Lake, the visitors had chance to meet the producers, talk with them, buy their products, and at the end they might decide to visit them soon in their houses, wine cellars, restaurants, etc.