As one of the major world trade fair on Tourism, from 19 to 21 of January FITUR 2022 offered to the various NECSTouR Spanish members that were attending the opportunity to meet and discuss on their sustainable tourism plans for recovery.
After a successful mandate 2019-2021, NECSTouR is pleased to announce its re-election as Board Member of the UNWTO Affiliate Members for the period 2021- 2025.
NECSTouR, on behalf of the INTERREG MED Sustainable Tourism community, is looking for specialised consultant with whom to subcontract the mission of capitalisation advisory role. The goal is to provide NECSTouR with support in the existing and the new capitalisation activities foreseen in WP5 during the last year of the project, following the extension of the horizontal project on Sustainable Tourism.
70 travel and tourism organisations express their support to any effort – based on scientific evidence – to keep protecting and ensuring the freedom of movement and avoid a patchwork of diverging national measures within the EU/EEA as well as internationally.
On 24 November, NECSTouR President, Manuel Alejandro Cardenete, addressed the subject of digitalization of destinations for frictionless and sustainable tourism at Be Travel Onlife (BTO) 2021 Conference, organized by the Tuscany Region. This was also the opportunity to meet Tuscan Tourism Authorities and enhance cooperation with our funding Region within the new NECSTouR Board of Directors.
Travel & Tourism stakeholders call on EU and Member States for urgent alignment and coordination in their responses to the epidemiological situation. A common and fully aligned approach on the eligibility and timing of booster doses, linked to the continued validity and use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate, is a must.
Today, the NECSTouR President, Mr. Manuel Alejandro Cardenete, was pleased to participate to the 20th edition of the European Tourism Forum, co-organised by the Slovenian Presidency and the European Commission fully online and web streamed.
Our partners from the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR) – through its Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) and Islands Commission (IC), are looking for an experienced entity specialised in advocacy in the field of Sustainable Tourism to support the WINTER MED project with the creation and implementation of an EU-wide Advocacy Campaign.
Regional Tourism Authorities and DMOs were among the 432 speakers gathered at the Tourism Innovation Summit in Seville on 10th – 12th of November, leading inspiring debates to reactive tourism in a more sustainable way through innovation.
The Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2021 has been published. Despite the tremendous impact that the Covid-19 is having on the Tourism sector, it reveals how 7 NECSTouR Members Regions - Canary Islands, , Coastal Croatia*, Ile-de-France, Catalonia, Andalucia, Veneto and Balearic Islands - are confirmed in the top-7 of the EU Regions with the highest number of Tourist nights. The Region of Occitanie is also in the top-10.
NECSTouR joined the Future of Tourism World Summit (26-27 October 2021), organised by the UNWTO, the Advanced Leadership Foundation and the Incyde Foundation of the Chambers of Commerce of Spain and renewed our members' commitment around the shared vision for a greener, more inclusive and resilient tourism.
For the first time since September 2019, the partners of the Interreg Europe project STAR Cities finally met again during a physical seminar held on October 5-6 2021 and hosted by the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region (RRA LUR).