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Let's enjoy the Mediterranean responsibly!
We live in such a beautiful region, the Mediterranean, that plenty of tourists are coming to spend some good time in our coastal and maritime regions. Mass tourism has, however, a deep impact on our landscapes, societies and economies both positive and negative.

"Our challenge is to make everybody enjoy the Mediterranean responsibly and respectfully of the environment and local populations."

Tourism sector is amongst the highest income generators in the Mediterranean. Leisure related activities make tourism a leading economic sector in terms of gross value added and employment. Tourism contributes directly to regional economies with sectoral synergies and strong multiplying effects.

Despite its economic and social importance, tourism development is exerting undue pressures on natural and built environment. These pressures may threaten the quality of life of local populations, degrade the tourism assets and, by consequence, affect negatively future tourism developments. Exploiting the full potential of tourism requires an innovative approach and sustainable basis. Therefore, effective strategies and targeted integrated actions should be developed and implemented across the Mediterranean region.

With this common objective, 22 Modular Projects (MPs) and 2 Strategic Projects are implemented under the Interreg Med Sustainable Tourism Community. They respond to the Interreg MED Programme’s priority axis 3 “Natural & Cultural resources – Protecting and promoting Mediterranean natural and cultural resources” and to the specific objective 3.1 “To enhance sustainable the development policies for more efficient valorisation of natural resources and cultural heritage in coastal and adjacent maritime areas of a sustainable and responsible coastal and maritime tourism in the MED Area”.

"Our aim is to study, test and capitalise innovative instruments and actions towards the enhancement of tourism sustainability in the Mediterranean."

A community featured by BleuTourMed_C3
The MED Sustainable Tourism Community is featured by Ssutainable Tourism Project a three-year Horizontal Project financed by the ERDF within the Interreg MED Programme which suceeded the BleuTourMed_C3 Project. The target of the project is to facilitate the knowledge sharing, the transferring and the capitalisation of the results of the 22 projects of the Community.

For more information please visit the official site: Sustainable Tourism

This is a short User-Guide for the Search-the-Med tool of BleuTourMed_C3.

Idea

The library of the Search the Med tool has been primarly developed in order to assist the projects of the Sustainable Tourism Community of the Interreg-Med 2014-2020 Programme to capitalise on the existing scientific knowledge and experience and develop more effective actions towards the fulfillment of their objectives. In addition, the library could be considered as a multi-source repository of documents regarding the sustainability of tourism and with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean region. The, Search the Med tool innovative character lies on three main factors. The first regards the inclusion of a wide range of documents types, such as scientific papers, project deliverables and reports, in one single library. The second differentiating factor is that that the codification of the selected documents is based on a document driven approach rather than a project based approach. This kind of orientation provides the ability to users to access directly deliverables and reports dealing with tourism related issues without engaging in time demanding research on past projects' deliverables. In addition, the library includes deliverables dealing directly or indirectly with tourism issues that are produced under projects of different orientation. Finally, rather just including an entry by conducting a tag or keywords search the entries the elements selected for inclusion in the library have been firstly reviewed in depth by the members of the development team of BleuTourMed_C3. Although more effort demanding, this approach provides the developers with the ability to include the most useful documents and add any additional keywords towards the better description of all entries.

Structure