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Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

This will be the first brochure about roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova, for all travelers.

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Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

Brochure: Roadside restaurants & hotels in Moldova

This will be the first brochure about roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova, for all travelers.

This will be the first brochure about roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova, for all travelers.

This will be the first brochure about roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova, for all travelers.

This will be the first brochure about roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova, for all travelers.

Aurel Stratan
Aurel Stratan
Aurel Stratan
Aurel Stratan
3 Campaigns |
Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of
$0 USD 0 backers
0% of $3,714 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Choose your Perk

1 Brochure + Free Drive

$25 USD
Est. Shipping
July 2015
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1 Brochure + Discount Prices

$50 USD
Est. Shipping
July 2015
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1 Brochure + Guide in Moldova

$100 USD
Est. Shipping
July 2015
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1 Brochure + Free Room

$200 USD
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July 2015
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Highlights
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Short Summary

I am a business news journalist and a media entrepreneur in Moldova, a country is Eastern Europe. I am employed as the communication specialist at Development Alternatives, Inc., an American company implementing an agricultural project in my country (aced.md), and I also work at Business News Service S.R.L. (mold-street.com), a 4-men media enterprise where I am a co-founder and an investigative reporter.

During more than 20 years of independence Moldova has built a modest tourism infrastructure in its urban environment but the countryside tourism industry is flourishing. The brochure about the roadside restaurants and hotels in Moldova is a first step towards publishing a “Grand Book of Traveler – A Charming Moldova”, a longtime plan to produce the first tourism catalogue in the ex-Soviet state.

I will employ two specialists to help me in this assignment – a professional photographer and a driver.

We will be visiting all restaurants / cafes and hotels / motels outside the cities and towns, to put them all in one map, to shoot for high quality pictures, and to gather information about their offers. We want to print some 400 copies of this brochure in English and Russian and to distribute them to incoming visitors at the major airports and stations. We hope our brochure will help foreigners find a meal and bed while touring the country and will enable them to enjoy their stay in Moldova as much as possible.

What We Need & What You Get

We need 3,714 USD overall to complete the project. Of this total cost, the driver will be paid 480 USD for six days and the photographer will be paid 720 USD for the same period. A designer’s services will cost 400 USD. We will spend another 114 USD for Diesel fuel, which will be enough to cover a 2,000 kilometer journey. The printing services will cost 2,000 USD (400 copies * 5 USD) on average for full color copies.

We don’t know yet how many pages exactly will be in that brochure, because we don’t know exactly how many restaurants and hotels were raised so far alongside Moldovan roads. We believe there are between 70 and 50 venues worth seeing so we’ve counted the printing cost for 60-64 pages at maximum.

The format of the publication will be customized: 208/208 mm.

For contributing folks we offer a copy of the brochure with a special offer inside! We will negotiate special discount prices at a hotel or restaurant included in our brochure. The offer will be contained in an insert invitation from the offering party, for our contributors. The discount prices given in the invitation will be valid for 1 to 5 years (yet a subject of negotiation). We have the following options to negotiate: 1) A free drive to / from a venue included in our brochure; 2) Free drinks for you and your partner/friend at the restaurant; 3) Free house specialty food for you and your partner/friend at the restaurant; 4) Fifty-percent hike in accommodation fee at the hotel; 5) A free guide during the Moldova tour, for three days.

We hope to complete the project within two months after we raise the entire amount.

We expect to be able to save or to overspend some 10 percent of the total cost.

The Impact

The success in the publishing of this brochure will help us complete a similar project for Moldovan fortresses and castles, then another one for Moldovan monasteries and churches, and so on. Each project will build an experience for the next project. Our final goal as stated above - “Grand Book of Traveler – A Charming Moldova” - will attract advertisers and media attention, enabling us to collect sufficient funding for its production. This book will become the first ever printed resource on tourism in Moldova, which foreign visitors and even local travelers need.

In the past, I created the first events calendar for Moldova (agenda.md). The service was very popular and attracted as subscribers most of the Moldovan media companies, international organizations and foreign diplomatic missions, several political parties, a number of government institutions and city authorities, many non-profit outlets, and even the presidential administration.

Business News Service S.R.L. is my second company. We cover business and economy issues, as well as investigations into corruption.

Risks & Challenges

I see three factors that can delay implementation of this project: 1) unstable prices for printing services and fuels; 2) low understanding of venue owners/managers as to why they should offer special discounts for contributors to my project; 3) bad weather for photo shooting. No major risks should be in sight.

As mentioned above, I can foresee a 10-percent extra spending because of price drifting. On the other hand, there’s a vague possibility that some venue owners / managers will be willing to insert their advertising materials, and I would accept such an approach. As for days with bad weather, well... we’ll have to wait for nicer days.

Other Ways You Can Help

I have to say thank you for taking your time to read my project. If you like it and can’t contribute, please share it to others who might be interesting in creating some buzz. If you want to contribute but wish another kind of perks, please let me know. Anything is possible.

I will be expecting your comments and enquiries by email (office@mold-street.com) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/aurel.stratan).


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