SECO and Innotour: Economic Development Initiatives
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and its project, Innotour, aim to drive innovation and sustainability in the Swiss tourism industry. SECO focuses on economic policy, urban development, private sector support, trade promotion, and climate-friendly growth. Innotour, led by Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, provides financial assistance to private organizations for tourism innovation projects, bridging the gap between public and private sectors. Challenges like global warming and seasonality are addressed to enhance the sector's competitiveness.
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SECO, SECO, InnoTour InnoTour Alena Alena Kochurova Kochurova, Simone , Simone Dimitriou Dimitriou, , Lynn Huber, Jeannine M ller, Lynn Huber, Jeannine M ller,
History & Development The abbreviation SECO stands for State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. It was created as an interface between politician, entreprises and social partnership. It helps ensure a sustainable economical growth. Innotour is a project generated by SECO, which started in 1997. The aim of Innotour is to stimulate innovation, cooperation and profesionalism in Swiss Tourism. It tends to reduce burocraty and offers financal assistment to privates (PPP!).
Goals SECO focuses its measures on: 1. Strengthening economic and financial policy, 2. Developing urban infrastructure and utilities, 3. Supporting the private sector and the entrepreneurship, 4. Promoting sustainable trade, 5. Stimulating climate-friendly growth
General informations about SECO (Innotour) It is directed by Marie- Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch The headquarter is situated in Bern. Budget of Innotour: 20 moi Francs for 2012-2015, given by the Government. No turnover is generated by Innotour, at it is a help for innovation in tourism.
Challenges faced by Innotour Innotour activities, which are part of the challenges faced now by the tourism industry: has supported the following Investment international benchmarking (data sharing) for improvment of the swiss Investment for protection of the climate (global warming) Investment to help developping summer activities (fight against the seasonality)
Linked/associated with Directly Switzerland overall economical control. linked with SECO, which is And they had of course many associations with the different privates they did help.
Importance and impact on the swiss tourism sector Innotour devlopment of tourism, as it finances private organization s projects. has a direct impact on the It is a link between Public (government) and Private (organization), as in PPP. The privates find help to co-finance their projects.
Personnal opinion We opportunities for development and innovation in the swiss tourism sectors. It supports many privates with their ideas/projects, therefore it helps the swiss tourism to propose a more diversified offer. Swiss tourism may diversification, but also innovation to attract tourists during the off-season (summer). SECO, particulary Innotour works on these objectives, as well as on the managment of climate changes and benchmarking in tourism sector. constate that SECO offers many need not only the difficult
