Transcript Kein Folientitel - Provincia di Rimini

The
“Network of Cities for Sustainable Tourism”
Study Visit on Environment
Best Practice on Sustainable Tourism
Rimini, 15 – 19 May 2006
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The Network
I
... was launched at the International
Conference on Sustainable Tourism held
in Rimini in 2001.
… it was one of the activities of a LIFE
environment project involving the
Province of Rimini and the Municipality
of Calviá. The project finished in 2003,
but the Network still works!
www.life.sustainable-tourism.org
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Why a Network of local governments
for Sustainable Tourism?
Municipalities play an important role in developing a
more sustainable tourism because of:
 ...their key role as facilitators and co-ordinators in the
design of a common view for the future together with
local stakeholders;
 ... Local policies contribute to shape both the local
community and an economic asset: the tourists
destination!
 ...their responsibility to react to any damage or problem
that is caused by tourism.
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ICLEI’s functions
Democratic
Association
of Local
Governments
International
Environmental
Agency for
Local
Government
Movement
of Cities
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
 Membership
services
 Strategy,
advocacy
 Partnerships
 Information
 Training
 Technical services
 Sustainable
Management
 Sust. Tourism
 Local Agenda 21
 Cities for Climate
Protection
 Water Campaign
 Procura Plus
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The partners
•Calvià (Spain)
•Çanakkale (Turkey)
•Cervia (Italy)
•Chioggia (Italy)
•Comunità Montana del Giovo (Italy)
•Georgioupolis (Greece)
•Kallithea (Rhodos, Greece)
•Lloret de Mar (Spain)
•Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Costa del Sol Occidental (Spain)
•Punta Umbría (Spain)
•Province of Rimini (Italy)
•San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy)
•Sousse (Tunisia)
•Tortolì (Italia)
•The Union of Local Authorities in Israel (ULAI)
•Venice (Italy)
•Suvot Project Partners
• ………………… who’s next?
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Some features of the Network
… local governments or associations of local governments;
… mass tourism destinations;
… more than 15,000,000 inhabitants in total;
… more than 20,000 square kilometres scattered
throughout the Mediterranean;
… more than 20,000,000 arrivals every year;
… about 60% of arrivals and presences concentrated
in the period June-September
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Some goals of the Network
• To develop and implement joint projects to pursue
sustainability in the tourism sector;
• To exchange information & experience
(study visits, exchanges, etc);
• To search for funds from the European Union and
from other potential funders in order to implement
joint projects;
• To develop a common promotion and dissemination strategy
in order to: increase awareness in more local governments,
in the tourists and in tour operators, and to present the
Network achievements.
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Goal: sustainability!
Quality of Life
Economic
Activity
Natural Resources
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Work Plan: short term
Awareness raising among tourist and tour operators:
The rules of the sustainable tourist: leaflet in 4 languages
• Dissemination of the rules of the sustainable tourist
among local tourism operators, among Tour Operators
working in the area, via the local tourism agency...
Local Agenda 21 forums and involvement of local stakeholders:
• Organisation of local events to present the Network & its goals
Development of Common projects at the:
• European level
• National level
• Local level
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Work Plan: mid to long term
Create European working groups that are going to focus on
specific areas of work or topics:
 Sustainable procurement
 Certification and labelling
 Measure and “accounting” of the environmental externalities
 Carrying capacity
 Seasonality
Create National working groups that are going to focus on
specific areas of work or topics:
 Agenda 21 on Sustainable Tourism
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The Province of Rimini engagements
• Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment (TCCA): used to
design potential development scenarios (Integrated Zonal
Coast Management - ICZM) and take decisions for the
future, together with local stakeholders (Plan of Local
Agenda 21);
• support to local tourism operators by supplying them
with training and information about: green purchasing,
ecolabel, environmental management;
• awareness raising and stimulate interest of tour
operators (Sustainable and Vocational Tourism policies)
• awareness raising among tourists (10 Golden Roules)
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Benefits of networking?
• Develop broader projects that can be transferred to
other local governments with similar conditions
• Join efforts to negotiate with multinational
companies, international funders, national
governments, etc
• Benefit from joint dissemination strategies which
are more likely to reach the tourists and the tour
operators
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awareness raising among Tour Operators:
how do we stimulate interest of the TO?
•
Contacts with Tour Operators and organisations in
the countries where the tourists come from
•
Involve local Tour Operators that pursue a
Sustainable way of Tourism
•
Develop relationship with national Tour Operators
that pursue a Sustainable way of Tourism
•
Improve the co-operation and exchange of
information with big European Tour Operators that
pursue a Sustainable way of Tourism
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Awareness raising among tourists: how do we
reach the tourists? How do we talk to them?
•
Contacts with local governments and organisations
in the countries where the tourists come from
•
Involve local tourism operators (hotels, restaurants,
shops, etc)
•
Develop relationship with Tour Operators
The “10 Golden Rules”
of the sustainable tourist
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Thank you !
www.turismosostenibile.provincia.rimini.it
Network Web Page
http://www.iclei-europe.org/index.php?id=273
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