Promotion of sports tourism through sports infrastructure - Reconstruction of the Sport Center Morača

Total investment: 294.514,00 EUR

Project co-financing: 65.000,00 EUR

Municipality: Podgorica

With growing urbanization and urban lifestyles, recreational sports facilities have become more important in cities everywhere. The overall goal of the Sports Center Morača reconstruction supported by UNDP’s Tourism Project, was to improve sports tourism in Podgorica through the renovation of sports infrastructure. The project enabled the expansion of capacities and the modernization of multifunctional training facilities, as a basis for development of young sport talents, ensuring greater attendance at the matches and better conditions for active and healthy life of young people.

UNDP support focused on meeting the most advanced standards in terms of energy efficiency, so the Center was also renovated by rethinking the electrical installations, lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and hydraulic networks. The Sports Centre Morača was until recently, the most energy consuming sport building in Montenegro, but the new highly efficient LED fixtures will help save up to 80% energy compared to old traditional fixtures. In the course of one year, the new energy-efficient structure will enable saving 80,000 kWh of electricity and reducing CO2 emissions for 94.1 t – curbing substantially the Centre’s maintenance costs. For now, better indoor sports lighting already makes the games more enjoyable for both athletes and spectators.