The ENSST network provides European Storytelling Towns with a perfect basis for building links and exchanges between them: it will facilitate the establishment of European cultural and tourist routes, and help to disseminate useful information for lovers of stories and legends to organise their trips and holidays.
The network will also help professionals (event organizers, tourism managers, storytellers,…) and political administrators to get to know and coordinate each other better, and to have a better knowledge of what exists and is done in other places. It will also facilitate the work of researchers interested in traditional stories their transmitters.
The specific benefits of being an ENSST member are, among others:
- Getting to know towns and cities that do similar activities that your town or city does with regard to oral tradition.
- Disseminating internationally what your town or city does about oral tradition.
- Promoting routes among storytelling town and cities, developing cultural tourism among those European towns that regularly practise the oral storytelling.
- Having a European and even international projection.
- Strengthening one’s own oral heritage.
- Enrich one’s own oral heritage with the knowledge of others.
- Improve the qualification and working techniques of storytellers and professionals related to oral storytelling, management and cultural tourism.
- Broadening the audiences of oral storytelling.
- Taking part in specific European Programmes.
- Promoting cultural and creative sector as key drivers for boosting quality tourism and regional, local and urban development.
