Description
With a new type of tour in Budapest involving groups and guiding them, we aim to reduce the existing prejudices against Muslim communities and Islam. We visit Muslim places and people in the tour – for our priority target groups – school students and journalists – we organize free tours. We create a guide-book, a handbook and a mobile app so the results can multiplied. All the materials will be based on experts knowledge and on our own experiences. The handbook can be used in itself, but the training of trainers will make able more people to continue the activities by themselves. We expect to reduce the distance between Hungarians and Muslims and we would target the school-students, but indirectly everyone else.
Summary of project results
The "Muslim tours" project was supported by Norway Grants and was implemented by Dialogue Platform Association between the springs of 2015 and 2016 by coordinating multiple activities. The aim of the project was to reduce prejudices against Islam and Muslim communities living in Budapest and in Hungary by planning new walking tours in Budapest and by guiding those groups. The primary target groups of the project are those students, professionals in tourism, decision-makers and jornalists for whom the association organised tours within the frameworks of the project in order to visit Muslim-related spots and people. The project involves a open-access handbook as well as a mobile phone application to promote the tours designed during the project. Those make the results of the project multiplicavble and sustainable. All of the materials were collected by experts and the handbook can be used individually. The training of tour guides contributed to design similar tours in the future.
Summary of bilateral results