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This project developed models, tools and practices for sustainable and competitive tourism.
In particular, the regional and local policy makers M&C tourist destinations were introduced to the MED M&C Tourism Management Model and the Policy recommendations that aim to better define a common framework for sustainable tourism development. On this occasion, a Memorandum of Understanding  was signed by several destinations that committed themselves for the implementation of the integrated MED M&C tourism management model.

ShapeTourism improves the tourism knowledge framework, providing analysis and operational tools to shape and drive tourism sustainable growth, particularly for Cultural Destinations. The project supports policymakers and private operators to achieve: ATTRACTIVENESS, GROWTH, SUSTAINABILITY taking into account the major challenges of global competition. Starting from the capitalization of scientific studies and from tourism established patterns, the project aims to foster the balance between divergent public and private interests by gearing tourism development toward an holistic, highly operational and sustainable approach.

SIROCCO uses value chain analysis, policy coherence analysis and foresight as its main methodological components to overcome challenges in maritime tourism including improve knowledge by addressing current data gaps & incompatibilities address demand volatility by capturing the potential of tourists who can travel in low season and adapting to demographic change overcome sector fragmentation by sharing best practices between Member States, regions and stakeholders and achieving synergies address environmental pressures by improving resource efficiency, waste and pollution prevention and promoting eco-audit schemes

TOURISMED is a project aimed at testing and transferring a fishing tourism business model in the coastal territories of Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Albania, France and Spain as a way to promote a sustainable approach to tourism, while fostering the preservation of the marine ecosystem and the traditional fishing culture of the MED region.

An organization partnered with the UNEP and Mediterranean Action Plan Barcelona Convention that recognizes the challenges related to tourism in the Mediterranean require the definition of tourism strategies rooted in the local territories and enhancing economic competitiveness, social responsibility, and natural and cultural resources-saving.

Plan Bleu carries out workshops, studies, and highlights regional projects in the Mediterranean focusing on sustainable tourism.

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

Since 2019, five new territorial cooperation projects (LABELSCAPE SuSTowns, WINTER MED, INCIRCLE and DESTIMED PLUS) 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.

Main Goals:

1.     Enhancing attractiveness and tourism offer: Alternatives to mass tourism (sun and beach) taking benefit of local/regional resources: underwater heritage, culinary heritage, ecotourism in protected areas, mountains, fishing tourism, cycling tourism…

2.     Addressing tourism pressures: Reducing the impact of tourism activities (water consumption, waste generation, management of tourists flows, carrying capacity) & circular economy

3.     Strengthening planning and management practices: Measuring the sustainability and development of indicators and tools for planning. Integrated planning and management of tourism flows.

A project that includes alternative tourist strategies to enhance the local sustainable development of tourism by promoting Mediterranean identity.

Alter Eco Plus will support "mainstreaming processes" to improve public policies related to tourism management. The starting point is the “Carrying Capacity Limit” calculation tool, a fully operational and functional tool/methodology, which will support the decision-making process and the mechanisms relating to policies to facilitate territorial absorption. The aim is to facilitate the integration of the tool which aims to balance the effects of tourism development taking into account the CCL and expanding the focus of tourism development beyond the local destination level. Our CCL tool will also provide threshold values on the risk of tourism Covid 19 pandemic contagion.

This Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) report building on the inaugural 2021 report to highlight the GMA members and describes the revised goals of our Alliance. We describe important new research findings and policy developments. We also shine a spotlight on mangrove restoration, including research, tools, and stories from the field. The Global Mangrove Alliance has generated a revised goal for 2030, to ensure the long-term security of mangroves and the people who depend on them. It can be summarized in six words: Halt loss, restore half, double protection.