Piatra Neamt chose to use PMI in its tourism policy field. The challenge that lies in front of Piatra Neamt city is to make the transition to a major tourist resort, so that by using the available natural resources: the beauty of the landscape, climatic conditions, the monuments of art, historical ruins, folk tradition, tourism will become a real way of economical development of the area.

One of the objectives is to improve the city's business environment through tourism development. The field of tourism has been chosen due to the following reasons:

• There is some important natural and anthropic potential;
• The city holds notoriety and a proper infrastructure;
• Tourism is a service industry so the small business that act in this field do not need important investments;
• The collateral effects are more prominent in comparison to other industries (for example the demand creates new jobs faster in comparison to other sectors);
• The online touristic service is easier to sell online in comparison to other products;
• Tourism is a clean industry, do not produce waste and does not pollute;
• The effects at the level of the community are on long term and are visible faster;
• As a municipality, your own inhabitants also benefit from the touristic infrastructure;
• Tourism needs less specialized and technical know how in comparison to other industries

• Increase of the local budget revenues (by increasing the amount of taxes collected), which will be reflected in the improvement of the public services provided to the community (a more user friendly interface with citizens, better roads, green areas, urban furniture, etc.);
• Diversification of services and attractions will lead to the creation of new jobs (in tourism and in other branches that will develop due to the development of tourism) and in this way unemployment will be reduced as well as the use of resources and labor;
• Entrepreneurial initiatives will contribute to the growth of the middle class.

Obtaining the above results, as well as taking into account that of the majority of the tourist facilities the inhabitants of Piatra Neamt will also benefit (pedestrian spaces, landscape paths in nature, the new street market, trails for mountain bikers, road access Cozla, etc.), lead to the conclusion that the development of tourism makes it possible to achieve a political objective in mind:

The polical objective: raising the standards of living for the citizens of the municipality of Piatra Neamt

The activities through which we aim to achieve the objective are the implementation of a group of projects with an impact on the development of the business environment through tourism

1. Building a bicycle lane in Piatra Neamt - 18,304 km;
2. Setting up an information and tourism promotion center in Piatra Neamt;
3. Rehabilitation and consolidation of the archeological discoveries of the historic and cultural area of the Royal Court Museum II;
4. The set up of the street market on Muncii Street

Activities done so far with the help of PMI:

• Elaborate a PMI project plan – available here;
• Elaborate an multi-annual policy plan on tourism – available here;
• Elaborate annual plans for each project and set up indicators that would allow reporting against planned targets – available here.

Prundeni opted for applying PMI for the whole institution, an ambitious but not impossible objective. During the 1,5 years of the project, Prundeni team elaboated.

• A PMI project plan;
• A multi-annual policy for the commune;
• Multiannual programs in the field of: governance, infrastructure, leisure, education and culture, safety and services and tourism - available here
• Annual and progress report for each of the five programs mentioned above – available here and here.

The added value of applying PMI up to this point is the focus on the desires of the citizens, namely the completion of basic infrastructure for the local community.

Bucharest Sector 3 Townhall applies PMI for a future project: setting up of a Centre for Communication and Information Technology that includes an 'online catalogue'. The political objective that constituted the basis of this project is the promise of investing in the education field.

An objective of the educational policy plan was defined, namely increasing the number of educational activities, especially those for high school students. A project plan was initiated by the project team (PMI) of the Sector 3 Townhall – available here.

In the same time an educational policy was elaborated which will facilitate the set up during the next 4 years of the Center for Communication and Information Technology. The policy plan is avalable here.

Medgidia Townhall uses PMI for a specific case, the project elaboration and implementation of an industrial park. Work activities have been initiated for a project plan and for an economic policy focused on making the industrial part real.

The project plan is available here (in Romanian).

The economic policy plan is available here (in Romanian).

Satu Mare town hall used PMI in order to create and implement a program aiming at traffic decongestion and fuidization in the municipality. The program refers to ensuring an optimal and safe traffic by improving urban connectivity. It aims at improving the quality of territorial and urban traffic in a sustainable manner as the major premise of economic development planning, in general, and of the city, in particular.

The policy documents elaborated within the project finds:
The PMI project plan – available here.
The decongestion and fluidization policy plan – available here.