Sustainable Tourism Initiatives in the Mediterranean Region
The BLEUTOURMED project aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and capitalize on sustainable tourism results in the Mediterranean area. The project involves various partners to enhance efficient valorization of natural resources and cultural heritage for responsible tourism development. Key objectives include community building, communication, and capitalization efforts to mainstream project results.
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The Community of Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean Region BleuTourMed Interreg Med project Nelly Nelly Bourlion Bourlion, , program officer, UNEP- MAP- Plan Bleu 11 January 2018 11 January 2018 BlueMed Coordinators meeting , Malta
BLEUTOURMED PROJECT : WHO WE ARE Associated Partners CPMR, Medcities, Universit di Catania Universit degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro , University of Girona; Greek Tourism, Agency for tourism promotion inLiguria ; Metropolitan Cty of Florence, Valencia Provincial Council; Provincial Government of M lga; Province of Livorno; Region of Thessaly; Hellenic Development City Network DEPAN; South Aegean Region; Europarc Italy; PAP-RAC; Genoa Municipality University of the Aegean Research Unit, University Mediterranean Podgorica, Faculty of Tourism, Metropolitan City of Turin; UICN-Med; Euromed r seau des Villes; CAT-MED;
BLEUTOURMED : OBJECTIVES To facilitate the knowledge sharing and the capitalization of results of 14 Modular Projects of MED Community on Sustainable Tourism Community building (CB) keeping the community active, synthesizing and harmonizing the results of the MPs, identifying possible common thematic objectives, synergies on methods and tools and common spatial context. Communication (COM) driving external flow of information on results of the community to the Med Programme, other horizontal projects and the main EU and MED target groups. Capitalisation (CAP) transferring results delivered by MPs to a variety of target groups and stakeholders at EU and MED level, in order to mainstream project results and policy messages.
BLEUTOURMED : A NETWORK AND A COMMUNITY MITOMED+ MEDFEST TOURISMED SIROCCO BLUEISLANDS EMbleMatiC CO-EVOLVE ALTER ECO DestiMED CONSUME-LESS S PETOURISM CASTWATER MEDCYCLETOUR BLUEMED To enhance a more efficient valorisation of natural resources and cultural heritage in coastal and adjacent maritime areas for a sustainable and responsible coastal and maritime tourism development in the MED area
BLEUTOURMED : EXPECTED RESULTS Integrate tourism development into wider strategies (ICZM, MSP, tourism in regional development policies) Enhance sustainable and responsible tourism management through: Improving planning management of costal tourist destinations Preventing negative impacts on natural and cultural heritage Promoting an innovative sustainable and high quality offer Types of expected results: 17 instruments will enhance the development of sustainable and responsible tourism 108 tourist destinations will be covered by a sustainable tourism evaluation tool 11 strategies will be applying sustainable tourism management criteria 144 regions and sub-regions will be engaged in implementing sustainable tourism plans
THE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM COMMUNITY : WHERE WE ARE MEDCYCLETOUR (SL) EMBLEMATIC (Languedoc-Roussillon, PACA) CO-EVOLVE (Occitanie) DESTIMED TOURISMED MEDCYCLETOUR ALTERECO-CO-EVOLVE-BLUEMED-SIROCCO (Jadranska Hrvatska) BLUEISLANDS DESTIMED MITOMED+ (Istria) MEDCYCLETOUR (FR) EMBLEMATIC (Abruzzo, Sicily) BLUEISLANDS (Sicily, Sardegna) ALTERECO (Liguria, Veneto) CO-EVOLVE (Emilia-Romagna, Veneto) BLUEMED (Campania, Calabria) CONSUME-LESS (Sicily) (HR) EMBLEMATIC CONSUME-LESS (Saranda) DESTIMED TOURISMED SIROCCO (Lisbon) (PT) EMBLEMATIC (Catalonia, Balearic islands) BLUEISLANDS (Balearic islands) ALTERECO (Andalusia, Valencian Community) CO-EVOLVE Valencian Community) CONSUME-LESS (Andalusia) DESTIMED TOURISMED MITOMED+ (Catalonia, Andalusia) MEDCYCLETOUR (AL) EMBLEMATIC (Central Macedonia) ALTERECO-BLUEISLANDS-CONSUME-LESS-SIROCCO (South Aegean) BLUEMED (Thessaly) CO-EVOLVE (Eastern Macedonia-Thrace) CASTWATER-BLUEISLANDS- EMBLEMATIC (Crete) TOURISMED MEDCYCLETOUR DESTIMED SIROCCO (Lazio) TOURISMED MITOMED+ (Tuscany) MEDCYCLETOUR (IT) BLUEISLANDS SIROCCO (Limassol & Larnaca) TOURISMED MITOMED+ MEDCYCLETOUR (GR) BLUEISLANDS CONSUME-LESS (Gozo) (ES) (MT) (CY)
POTENTIAL LINKS WITH BLUEMED INITIATIVE Sustainable innovations in the tourism sector A focus on sustainable tourism innovations in one of the MED ST Community's deliverables (e.g. within the knowledge database, or in a factsheet) Athens Declaration of the MED Sustainable Tourism Community already published on BlueMed s website
FOR MORE INFORMATION THANK YOU Nelly Bourlion, program officer, UNEP-MAP-Plan Bleu nbourlion@planbleu.org
