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 Newsletter #05, edited by BleuTourMed 

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Open workshop on Mobility Management in Mediterranean coastal towns


25 October 2018 // Ca’ Foscari University - Main Building - Aula Baratto, Dorsoduro 3246, Venice, Italy // 14:30-16:00

The MED Sustainable Tourism Community participates to an open workshop organised in the framework of the UNIMED General Assembly by the MED Urban Transports Community on mobility management in Mediterranean coastal towns to look for synergies and to develop common actions.

The workshop will be the occasion for the representatives of the projects to present the partial results and create a space for reflection and brainstorming on the enhancement of this approach in Mediterranean coastal areas. The representative from the project SIROCCO, from the MED Sustainable Tourism Community will have the possibility to sit at the same table with the projects of the MED Urban Transports Community. The workshop will promote also the encounter and discussion with representatives of the wider community of Interreg MED projects, policy makers and scholars from Mediterranean Universities members of UNIMED, to draft an action plan for future steps to be taken. 

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The Med Sustainable Tourism Community @“Ecomondo: The Green Technologies Expo”


6-9 November 2018 // Rimini Expo Centre // Rimini, Italy



Tourism can be a strategic driver for sustainable development of the Mediterranean region as it accounts for almost 11% of its global GDP. However, to attain this objective we need a greater engagement of public and private institutions and we encourage a greater citizens participation. On its 22^ Edition, Ecomondo: the green technologies expo, will be the occasion for our MED Community to meet with different actors and stakeholders of the Green and Circular Economy, share ideas and projects, advocate and lobby for even more investment in this economic model.

This year, for the first time, six communities of the Interreg MED Programme will be there from the 6th to the 9th of November in the Stand 017 of the Pavilion D4 of the Rimini Expo Center (Rimini Fiere), in Rimini, Italy. The afternoon of the 6th November in the Tiglio Room of the Pavilion A6 of the Expo Center, the Communities will organise an open conference from 14:00 to 18:00. 

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Congratulations to the BLUEMED Project for having won two prizes @European Week Of Regions And Cities in Brussels


8-11 October // EU Week of Regions and Cities 2018 // Brussels, Belgium

In the week 8-11 October, during the #EUREGIONSWEEK2018, the BLUEMED Project represented the Sustainable Tourism Community in a great way by winning the 3rd place prize and the Social Media prize, both earned in the Interact “Project Slam”. The event has been a great chance to make visible cooperation projects, with huge success of public. About 6000 visitors participated to the 4 days convention, having the chance to learn more about our community.

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Second Capitalisation event of the MED Sustainable Tourism Community 


20-21 November 2018 // Marseille, France


The second capitalisation event of the MED Sustainable Tourism Community will take place on 20-21 November 2018 in Marseille (France). Organized by Plan Bleu, this workshop will gather all the projects of the community, as well as external experts and stakeholders, to keep working on strategic topics of the Mediterranean tourism sector: Monitoring the sustainability of tourism: what are the knowledge gaps of policy-making processes? How to bridge the data gaps on tourism? Reducing the environmental-cultural-social impacts of tourism in the Mediterranean region Tourism as a strategic driver for a sustainable and responsible economic growth and prosperity in the Mediterranean region Governance mechanisms to engage and to include a wide variety of stakeholders in a more sustainable and responsible tourism.

The agenda is available here and for register you can contact Mrs.Nelly Bourlion at nbourlion@planbleu.org

 THE NEW PROJECTS OF THE COMMUNITY 

 
COASTING - Coastal INtegrated Governance for Sustainable Tourism is a capitalisation project based on the ICZM principles application, aiming at enhancing the effectiveness of a multilevel governance tool like Coast Contract, fully framing coastal management and tourism sustainability issues. The transnational partnership of the project will activate synergies and cooperation to share specific solutions for an integrated and responsible management of coastal areas, particularly invested by tourism criticalities.

HERIT-DATA - Sustainable Heritage Management towards Mass Tourism Impact thanks to a holistic use of Big and Open Data The project aims to reduce the impact of human activities (tourism-related ones) on cultural heritage, with a special focus on two kinds of cultural destinations that can benefit from and be affected by mass tourism. In that framework, HERIT-DATA plans to develop of a sustainable and responsible tourism management towards cultural heritage MED regions, in particular by taking advantage of technology and innovation in management tools (Smart Cities), as well as other policy and social measures. The project will develop, test and transfer a series of knowledge and solutions in line with the current sectoral changes and characteristics of smart destinations, able to collect, generate, integrate and analyse information and transform it into behaviour changes, according to ICZM recommendations. The results will also contribute to decision-making processes from a holistic perspective and for all stakeholders: planners, visitors, local stakeholders and host citizens.

INHERIT - Sustainable Tourism Strategies to conserve and valorise the Mediterranean Coastal and Maritime Natural Heritage is an integrated project with 15 partners from 10 MED countries aiming to conserve and valorise natural heritage in MED coastal and maritime tourist destinations. The project will test and deploy a new approach adapted to MED specificities protecting natural heritage from the adverse effects of intensive tourism. It will promote sustainable tourism alleviating seasonality and tackling the surpassing of the hosting capacity, by designing and implementing a bottom-up protection approach relying on self-regulation and monitoring by local society and tourism stakeholders.

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