This is how it all started…
A famous American slogan goes
something like this; Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can
do for your country. “
I have united my love towards
Daruvar and the love towards my motorbike in the project; From Daruvar to the tops of the Ural
Mountains. By undertaking this project, I was trying to help my town
develop as a tourist destination. It was a tourist promotional project and it
gave me the opportunity to show potential tourists all the natural beauties of
Daruvar and our region. I succeeded in doing that during 2015.
So far the tourist promotion has
mainly been based on visiting tourist fairs. Exhibitors find the fairs
expensive and they are usually visited by people who already know where they
want to travel.
I turned the story upside
down. The idea was to distribute promotional leaflets in hostels, cafes,
restaurants and places where the tourism is at an early stage of development
such as; Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus. My sponsors supported my idea
and, to show my gratitude, I put their sticker ads all over my motorbike. I packed
dozens of kilograms of promotional leaflets from Daruvar Spa, Tourist office
Daruvar-Papuk and Polyclinic Dr. Maletić, all on my motorbike and set on a 10
000 kilometers journey…
I distributed the flyers, took
photographs with people on the way telling them they absolutely have to come
and visit Daruvar. On my journey I was followed by local and foreign media and
countless Facebook fans. I returned after 23 days of driving, tired and 7
kilograms lighter. I made new friends, gained new life experiences and great
pride for doing something for my hometown.
After seeing this was a good
idea I shared it with the senior students of School of Economics and tourism
Daruvar and that is how their story Daruvar – Cup of joy began.