Good practices

Trentino Marketing’s 2024 strategic framework outlines a new tourism model: balanced, green, and resilient. This vision prioritizes integrated environmental stewardship, community engagement, and climate responsiveness as central to the region’s identity. Strategic Priorities & Climate Response Trentino aims to build...

Small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in driving sustainable tourism, yet they often face resource and knowledge constraints. Effective support systems and guidelines can help these businesses deliver meaningful environmental and community impact. Two key sources...

Effective destination management benefits communities with meaningful visitor experiences. According to ICF, a more holistic, long-term strategy enables both groups to thrive together. What Is Sustainable Destination Management? ICF defines it as a strategic and integrated approach to managing all...

In early 2024, ENIT presented a landmark climate‑sensitive tourism study at BIT Milan, developed by Fondazione Santagata SGA in collaboration with Studio Giaccardi & Associati. This data‑driven research introduces the concept of "Climate‑Sensitive Tourism" and benchmarks how European and Italian...

The TUI Field to Fork Cyprus project (August 2024–July 2026), led by the Cyprus Environment Foundation with partners KES College, Christos Stelios Ioannou Foundation (CSIF), Tourythm, Valerga, and funded by TUI Care Foundation, responds to Cyprus’s urgent need to shift toward regenerative...

Effective management of sustainable tourism destinations requires shifting from short-term economic gain to long-term environmental protection, community well-being, and cultural preservation. A Shift Toward Long-Term Sustainability Historically, the focus was largely on maximizing tourist numbers and economic benefits - often...

The TOURISME project aims to enhance sustainability practices among tourism SMEs through knowledge sharing, cooperation, and stakeholder involvement. Deliverable 2.1, published in August 2021, offers a comprehensive literature review of the field, analyzing both academic and grey literature since 2010. Scope...

In January 2022, the Interreg Europe platform presented the “Eco‑tourism – a sustainable chain” as a success story from Övre Norrland, Sweden. Faced with growing interest from eco-conscious travelers, local tourism businesses discovered a critical challenge: a lack of locally...

URBAN-WASTE, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program (2016–2019), tackled one of urban tourism’s thorniest challenges -- waste overflow during peak seasons, with a clever goal: shift from waste disposal to reclaiming it as a resource in other words -...

CROSSDEV—short for Cultural Routes for Sustainable Social and Economic Development in the Mediterranean—is a European project with a mission: to turn lesser-known areas of the Mediterranean into models of sustainable tourism. Running from 2019 to 2023 and funded by the...