Smaranda Neagoe

Background

About Smaranda Neagoe

Competencies: 10+ years of experience in sustainability related projects with focus on: regional development, education & participatory planning 7+ years of experience as tour-operator Excellent communication, interpersonal skills & customer orientation Cooperative, creative leader in an multi-cultural-team Entrepreneurial spirit with a pragmatic-approach Joined-up, strategical & problem-solving thinking Focus: Business owner & project manager with expertise in and passion for #ecotourism & #sustainability, currently concentrated on - growing my business in the niche of fly fishing for the established brands:"Fly Fishing Romania" & "Revolution-Amadou"- market penetration for our new brand "iELELE", as a destination for active retreats in the Apuseni Natural Park (RO). I'm proud to be the founder & owner of the first tour operating business in Romania, for fly fishing and Romanian culture-enthusiasts. Learning how to responsibly grow my business, finding & using the right marketing and teamworking tools and delivering, without exception, a personal customer care, are all my daily motivation- This position gave me the oportunity to promote fly fishing as an ecotouristical activity in Romania- I conducted information and awareness-raising campaigns, gave interviews and held speeches; I've developed environmental educational paths, I've organized and moderated stakeholder workshops and public meetings, fundraising campaigns, volunteer work, student fieldwork and charitable youth camps; I'm also proud to have enabled a study on suitable fish stocking with the aim of supporting a sustainable river management in the destination area. The result is measured in the growing number of indigenous fish, of the more and more responsible fishing tourists and of the growing income of the ones owning accommodations and of other service providers in the area.