implemented projects - Projects

Sustainable tourism

Programme

Interreg MED Programme

Duration

from 01.11.2019 to 31.12.2022

Area

Tourism

Description

Project description

Created in November 2016 within the framework of the Interreg MED Programme, the MED Sustainable Tourism Community has been renewed for a three-year period till June 2022 to make tourism a real driver for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Since 2019, five new territorial cooperation projects have joined the Community that now gathers 22 projects co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), almost 300 organisations (public authorities, private companies, universities, NGOs and international organisations) active in 12 European-Mediterranean coastal areas. Besides, two Strategic Projects, approved in October 2019, focusing on governance of sustainable tourism will join forces with the Community.

Most notably, the Community’s members are leading the development of innovative tools to monitor the tourism industry, they are studying and testing new tourism models and they are actively engaging policy makers and managers in a constant dialogue to make tourism a real driver for inclusive and sustainable development.

Project Acronym

Sustainable Tourism

Lead Partner

DIBA - Barcelona Provincial Council (Barcelona, Spain)

Project Partners

UNIMED - Mediterranean Universities Union (Rome, Italy)
University of Thessaly (Thessaly, Greece)
Arco Latino, a network of local public authorities (Tarragona, Spain)
NECSTour - Network of European Regions or Sustainable and Competitive Tourism (Brussels, Belgium)
Plan Bleu UNEP MAP, the Regional Activity Centre of Mediterranean Action Plan (Marseille, France)
Adriatic and Ionian Euroregion (Pula, Croatia)
RDA Green Karst Regional Development Agency (Pivka, Slovenia)

Associated Partners

Association MedCities / MedCités (Spain)
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe
CPMR / Conférence des Régions Périphériques Maritimes d’Europe
CRPM (France) European Tourism Association
ETOA (UK) International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Mediterranean Centre (Spain) Mediterranean experience of Ecotourism Network
MEET Network (Spain) Observatory on Tourism in the European Islands
OTIE (Italy) National Research Council
Earth system science and environmental technologies Department (Italy)
Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry
ASCAME (Spain) Central Europe Initiative (CEI)
Executive Secretariat (Italy)
University of Jordan (Jordan)
University of the Aegean
Research Unit (Greece)
Cyprus University of Technology Eratosthenes Research Centre Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics (Cyprus)
Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Chamber of Commerce (Italy)