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Central European Eco-Tourism: Tools for Nature Protection

The project titled: Central Europe Eco-Tourism: Tools for Nature Protection (CEETO) aims at implementing an innovative governance system for tourism based on a participatory planning approach, which will improve the managing capacities of Protected Areas managers, and implement the sustainable use of natural resources. Moreover, CEETO aims at identifying and testing innovative management and monitoring tools specifically focused on sustainable tourism activities in different contexts. The CEETO project’s main objectives to protect and enhance the natural heritage of Protected Areas and ecological network Natura 2000 by promoting an innovative sustainable tourism planning model, which reduces usage conflicts, sustains social and territorial cohesion, improves the quality of life of local communities, and encourages the tourism industry to concretely contribute to nature conservation. The project studies are planned in four phases ; the Diagnostic phase is organized to carry out a diagnose on the most innovative and successful policies and tools currently in practice for tourism management inside natural PAs in EU and worldwide, and to contemplate the implementation of pilot actions and a site-specific analysis on the Protected Areas involved. The testing phase’s main goal is to test a model of governance of tourism flows within the pilot PAs aimed at reducing environmental impacts and pressures of tourism, and enhance the socio-economic benefits that can come from a sustainable tourism approach. The third phase is Creating CEETO guidelines, which aims at making a synthesis of the pilot actions results (T2) and at capitalizing them into the CEETO Guidelines, a tool designed to support policy makers at international/national/regional level in the process of shaping the tourism planning and management within and around PAs. The final phase, the CEETO Network, is designed to capitalize common knowledge, sharing lessons learnt, good practices and experiences from PPs activities at local/national/international level. The CEETO project will help to improve the managing capacities of managers of protected areas as well as to raise awareness of the value managing tourism sustainably, of protecting Europe’s natural heritage, whilst bringing social and economic benefits. It will provide a Network that will become the instrument of future networking among PAs across Europe in order to develop common initiatives and projects.

eco-tourism ; protected areas ; network ; managing capacities ; sustainable management

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