Search the Med

Description:

The tool is developed for being used under the Community Building activities of the BleuTourMed_C3 Project. The search the MED tool embodies a fully customizable search engine providing access to a wide range of documents related to tourism sustainability issues with particular focus on Mediterranean.

Functionalities:

Basic search engine with additional parameters - It includes a wide range of types of documents dealing with tourism related issues, such as scientific papers, project deliverables and reports, in one single library. - The codification of the selected documents is based on a document driven approach rather than a project based approach.

Project name:

BleuTourMed_C3

Project type:

HP

EuroVelo8

Description:

The MEDCYCLETOUR project, aiming to further develop and promote EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route and to use it as a tool to influence regional and national policies in favour of sustainable tourism. Project partners collected 15 good practices on cycling tourism route infrastructure, cycling friendly services solutions for combining bicycle and public transport, promotion and marketing and sustainable financing solutions. These detailed guides provides a lot of touristic information on the route, such as the main attractions to visit along the way, addresses of tourist information centres and bike repair shops, and many inspiring pictures.

Functionalities:

EuroVelo app is developed in collaboration with Cartographia Kft. and provides overview information (country and stages) and interactive maps for five developed EuroVelo routes: -EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route; -EuroVelo 5 – Via Romea Francigena; -EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route; -EuroVelo 10 – Baltic Sea Cycle Route; and -EuroVelo 13 – Iron Curtain Trail. To further enhance users experience the app has these additional features: -Points of interest (POIs) to help you discover famous places, UNESCO sites and other hidden gems by bike. -Interactive maps that indicate the route development status, POIs and other useful information to plan your cycling trips. -A gamification system whereby you can ‘check in’ to numerous POIs that are linked to the theme of each route and share how much of the route you have completed

Project name:

MEDCYCLETOUR

Project type:

MP

Toursim data indicator

Description:

MITOMED+ online platform is part of the Model which can be used by M&C tourism destinations to assure the tourism sustainability and gain competitive advantage, increasing the benefits tourism brings to the territory and the local community. MITOMED + platform is tool for assesment and it part of M&C Management Model which aims to improve sustainable and responsible maritime and coastal tourism planning in the Mediterranean area.

Functionalities:

MITOMED + platfrom is aimed at managing tourism destinations sustainably. It should be implemented to be aware of the starting point of the destination on a continuous basis for the sustainable development of the destination. The tool is used for sustainable measurement of the destination: destination as a whole, environmental, social and cultural and economic indicators. The key advantages of the intuitive online platform that MITOMED+ has developed for destinations to upload their indicators’ data and be able to see their data and that of others and compare.

Project name:

MITOMED +

Project type:

MP

Interregional Learning Portfolio

Description:

It includes alternative best practice measures which offer transnational education and transfer good practices from the lessons learnt during the whole process of the ALTER ECO project. The measures that are available at the ALTER ECO Interregional learning Portfolio are backed by the Database of Good Practices, which can be found in the official project website. ALTER ECO will contribute to improve knowledge and decision making capacities, including a better use of observation.

Functionalities:

The project ALTER ECO provides a deliverable that might be of use in this assessment phase, as different good practices are shared in an online platform which is very accessible where it is possible to find methodologies for diagnosis of a tourism destination sustainability are seen through practical cases that have implemented them. Available searches are: Search by type of measure, Search by problem addressed and Search by types of tourism destinations. After entering the relevant type or/and problem user will be provided with all good best practices for tourism susatinability.

Project name:

ALTER ECO

Project type:

MP

Smart Integrated Tourism Data System

Description:

In order to improve the knowledge framework about the tourism health of MED cultural destinations, and help stakeholders to “shape tourism in a sustainable way”, the Smart Integrated Tourism Data System offers information, scenarios and indicators on the four dimensions: reputation, competitiveness, attractiveness and sustainability.

Functionalities:

The ShapeTourism Innovative observatory integrates traditional data with broad mass of data, using new methods for collecting and processing BigData and generate open data able to overpass informative limitations of conventional statistical analysis.The observatory will bridge the gap amid stakeholders’ current information needs and traditional statistic responses. The ShapeTourism Survey tool provides unique insights into tourism’s state of health in the Mediterranean area today. The ShapeTourism Carrying Capacity Scenarios Simulator provides a useful tool for interpreting the future scenarios of the Mediterranean regions in relation to established indicators: tourism density, tourism intensity and occupancy rate. The ShapeTourism Cluster Map stool provides a visualisation of the geographical concentration of Mediterranean regions based on the driving forces, pressures, state and response (DPSR) model. Together with the ShapeTourism Observatory, Survey and Scenarios Maps tools, the Cluster Matrix is a key tool for analysing regional drivers of the tourism industry.

Project name:

SHAPETOURISM

Project type:

MP

Tourism carrying capacity

Description:

The continuous increase of tourism flow in urban destination could create undesirable effects concerning the decline of population, changes in tradition, changes in community cohesion, pollution, congestion and other negative impacts on residents. All these factors explain why local governments today are increasingly struggling with the choice of restricting the number of tourist presences, even though aware that an excessive reduction in visitor numbers can also negatively affect the monetary gain of the local tourism sectors.

Functionalities:

To determine and achieve the "best" compromise between undeserible effects of tourism and loss of monetary gain is one of the ultimate goals pursued by studies on tourism carrying capacity (TCC) and various policies experimented by many destinations affected by over-tourism. Calculating the carrying capacity of a tourism destination using a linear programming method is a process that follows these operative steps: 1. identify the tourism sub-systems of a destination, especially regarding tourism facilities and services; 2. classify the type of users are often utilizing those sub-systems; 3. determine the level of usage of these sub-systems by user profile; 4. lastly proceed with the quantitative analysis with the fine scope to maximize the revenue of the destination through understanding the daily expenditure per each profile.

Project name:

ALTER ECO PLUS

Project type:

MP

Tourism Sustainability Toolkit

Description:

The Tourism Sustainability Toolkit is a common methodology for assessing and monitoring tourism sustainability in coastal destinations. In this sense this tool allows political decision makers to have better information about their territory and there fore to make better decisions.

Functionalities:

he system is composed of the following sets of indicators: - Core indicators : 40 indicators have been selected from the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS). - Destination indicators : An extensive set of indicators developed to address the specific issues of coastal areas according to the characteristics and particularities of the predominant type of tourism activity in each type of destination. - Pilot area-specific indicators : A set of indicators developed on the basis of area-specific critical issues with linkages to the main threats,enabling factors and governance issues identified in the Mediterranean coastal areas. The indicators provide a basic framework of reference to guide decisions towards sustainability while they can be used as a tool to identify and systematically collect the necessary data for measuring and monitoring tourism sustainability in coastal areas.Thus,it has positive impacts on employment in tourism sectors,as well as for the environmental protection.

Project name:

CO-EVOLVE

Project type:

MP

The MED M&C Tourism Management Model

Description:

The MED M&C Tourism Management Model aims to improve sustainable and responsible M&C tourism planning in the Mediterranean area, through a series of recommendations,tools and practices based on the work done within the project. It contains recommendations to set up a leading and collaboration structure and other tools to carry out an assessment in the destination,to develop a shared vision and a related budget and timeframe and to formulate and approve a Sustainable Tourism Development Strategic Plan.

Functionalities:

The Management Model is divided into 5 steps to be taken by the stakeholders of the local tourist destination. The 1st Step refers to entrusting a leading person and entity to facilitate collaboration among stakeholders. The 2nd Step addresses the assessment needed to be conducted in the destination to understand the starting point, which includes MITOMED+ indicators and its intuitive and useful platform. This is to be conducted prior to drafting a shared vision, budget, and timeframe to be approved as part of the 3rd Step. Then, the 4th Step is evidently as well achieved in a participatory process, complex but of the utmost importance in order to gain trust and ownership by all parties. Finally, the 5th and last Step refers to monitoring and evaluating, not only how the action plan is implemented but also the indicators to see whether the plan is impacting as expected, should be evaluated to take further measures, if needed in a continuous fashion.

Project name:

MITOMED +

Project type:

MP