A presentation mad during a World Parks Congress event "Welcome Visitors: Making Tourism Work for Protected Areas and Sustainable Development: Part 1 – Critical Success Factors" that took place on 17 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Supported by the IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group and UNDP
2. Overview
Donor: European Programme “ENPI-CBC
Mediterranean Basin” 2007-2013
Budget: 5.000.000,00 €
Duration: Jan. 2013 – Oct. 2015
Location: Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy,
Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Spain,
Tunisia
Partnership: Federparchi – Europarc Italy
(Lead Partner), Latium and
Cataluña Regions, National Parks of
France, MedPAN, IUCN “Med” and
“ROWA” BOs, Royal Society for the
Conservation of Nature, Al- Shouf
Cedar Society
3. Goals
to develop an integrated strategy
in order to settle an Eco-Tourism
Development model for the
Mediterranean area
that boosts a better seasonal
distribution of tourism flows,
starting from the “European Charter for
Sustainable Tourism in Protected
Areas” (ECST) approach,
through the establishment of a
network among supply-side
stakeholders (Natural Parks)
4. Expected results
1. Ecotourism Planning Guidelines
for the Mediterranean
2. MEET Catalogue of ecotourism
packages
3. MEET Network
4. Six local clusters of ecotourism-related
SMEs
5. The Network France:
- Cevennes
- Mercantour
- Port Cros
Spain:
- Cap de Creus
- Aiguamolls
- Montgrí
Tunisia:
- Ickheul
Italy:
- Monte Rufeno
- Sinis peninsula
- Dune Costiere
- Appennino
Lucano
Jordan:
- Dana
- Ajloun
- Mujib
Lebanon:
- Al Shouf
- Jabal Moussa
- Tyre Coast
Malta:
- Majjistral
Greece:
- Samaria
- Karpathos and
Saria
6. Solution components
a. A partnership of PA management-related
Institutions at regional level
b. A reliable participative planning tool
(European Charter for Sustainable
Tourism)
c. A marketing-oriented approach
d. Capitalization
7. Stop, breath and inspire…..
Cooperation is better than competition
Eco-tourism is more than nature-based tourism
Coordination at regional level
Improving capacities in tourism planning and management
Increasing involvement of local communities and esp. of economic actors
8. How does it work?
§ Market survey
§ Capacity building strategy
§ Packages internal tests (autumn 2014,
spring 2015) and fam-trip (autumn 2015)
http://www.medecotourism.org/
http://www.meetnetwork.org/
http://www.european-charter.org/home/