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The project aims to intervene at the peak of the growing curve of tourist flows, making sure that small towns in the Mediterranean maintain the highest tourist flows, averting any risk of alteration of their fragile ecosystems. The main expected outcomes are the planning documents to address tourism marketing to produce new methodologies and technological tools which contribute in the strategy focused on stabilizing tourism flows. Therefore, the outputs are addressed to preserve the heritage of such towns which otherwise would see their existence compromised by the effects of overtourism.

A partnership with a main commitment to create a transnational strategy for all year-round tourism in Mediterranean Island Destinations. The strategy aims to lead for sustainable tourism development in a collaborative manner, fostering dialogue, ownership, growth, innovation, and action and to help protect Mediterranean island destinations for future generations.
This includes components of inclusivity, sustainability, gender equality, safety, high quality, competitiveness, and digital applicability.

The mission of INCIRCLE is to enhance the sustainability and attractiveness of MED touristic insular and low-density areas through Circular Tourism, preserving the quality and availability of natural resources as well as improving the quality of life of residents & tourists. The INCIRCLE Knowledge Platform is an online tool that gives everyone the chance to "BE PART OF THE CIRCLE" and exchange already acquired knowledge, tools, methods and good practices in the field of circular economy applying to the tourism sector.

With the aim of supporting destinations to rebuild the European tourism sector, the European Travel Commission (ETC) commissioned a Handbook that explores mitigation and recovery strategies deployed by NTOs across Europe during the pandemic, with a focus on sustainable tourism practices.
The aim of the Handbook is to provide NTOs with strategic recommendations to follow the path to rebuild both the tourism industry and travel confidence and ultimately support the creation of a new tourism ecosystem. ETC trusts that this Handbook will foster knowledge sharing among destinations, strengthen Europe’s approach for recovery and pave the way towards a more sustainable and resilient tourism sector.

Wilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business model of providing high-end, premium-priced wildlife safaris in various locations in Africa. Dependent on functioning, healthy ecosystems for its long-term survivability as a business, it invests heavily in conservation efforts, both directly, with communities and governments, and with partners and competitors. It may be reaching saturation of the high-cost, high-priced, low-volume, luxury travel product in its existing locations; so to continue its growth, it is now trying to expand into East Africa, where the traditional safari approach by most providers has been a high-volume, low-cost, low-priced product. As a publicly listed company, can Wilderness Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the ecosystems and communities on which its services are based?

The Geoheritage Tool-kit is a method, or series of steps, that has been developed to enable a geoheritage practitioner to systematically identify and categorise areas, geosites, or geological features of geoheritage significance at all scales (from mountain to microscale), to allocate them to a conceptual category of geoheritage and scale of reference, and to assess their level of significance for science and education.
The Geoheritage Tool-kit can also be applied to existing geoheritage lists. In this case, site-based lists can be revised to include the various categories of geoheritage and updated to more accurately describe their levels of geoheritage significance.