The aim of the project is to protect and promote the rich and diverse natural resources of the area of intervention as a vehicle for balanced and economic development.The project will develop new alternative forms of tourism of environmental interest in order to provide a new mechanism for improving quality of life in the region. The actions that the project will undertake include the development of an alternative tourism area at Mountain Vertiskos, development of an Environmental Awareness Raising Centre at Belasitsa Nature Park, elaboration of alternative tourist routes, creation of digital tourism maps etc. Expected Results: is of the current situation and the opportunities of promotion of alternative forms of tourism at the eligible area ofintervention, where sites of rich natural resources for future development are going to be catalogued, a catalogue of interventions for the improvement of areas of outstanding beauty, development of an alternative tourism area at Mountain Vertiskos, development of an environmental awareness rising centre - reconstruction of the existing building at Belasitsa nature park, elaboration of the tourist route to the Kameshnishki waterfall, conservation of the access road to the mountain shelter of Mountain Vertiskos, elaboration of the trekking network in the area of Mountain Vertiskos, trans-border route elaboration, preparation of alternative tourism maps, digital alternative tourism maps, 3 lingual common alternative-tourist guide book, 1 strategic – operational plan, business plans.EXPECTED RESULTS: Natural park of Belasitsa with implementation of management actions, enhancement of the cross-border cooperation, joint partnership / networkdeveloped, actions that protect and promote the rich and diverse natural sources of the area as a vehicle for economic development, activities for the promotion of new alternative tourism, creation of new business opportunities and decrease of high unemployment rates, additional working places created through the implementation of en-act project, attraction of new direct investments at the area.