Support the Development and the Competences of Local Communities

ΣΧΕΔΙΟ 2

The general objective of the project is to increase the Governance of the Public Administration in the tourist sector on the smaller islands in order to change their status of Mediterranean marginal and peripheral communities into a "network" able to promote new models, instruments and development strategies based on their participation in the decisions for the management of the territory keeping in mind the sustainability of the tourist sector.
The strategic objectives underlying the general one are the following:
1.improve the visitor's overall experience by qualifying the tourist offer thanks to the implementation of the study phase of the tourist demand and offer of the Mediterranean islands;
2.support the development of local communities (Public administration, enterprises and services) by activating a permanent concertation platform to share development strategies and the definition of methodological quality choices in the sector;
3.safeguard and enhance "the product islands" thanks to the activation of innovative info-technological platforms working as support instruments for any decision;
4.promote a single identification of the different islands thanks to network actions and territorial marketing based on the creation of a network system able to integrally organize the resources and to offer the socio-economic partnership and the enterprises a reference framework for investments and competition concerning the different qualified segments of tourist markets.
Please note general description of proposed thematic work packages for the project implementation

INTEGRATE THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
-Acknowledge and interpret the tourist demand and offer of the Mediterranean islands system

-Define and quantify the tourist demand and offer through needs analysis, data research and acquisition, statistical enquiries, swot analysis and comparison of best practices in similar contexts for the creation of sets of indicators and prediction models.

SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE COMPETENCES OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES

-Ensure the global sustainability starting from the creation of local sustainable communities

-Promote the sharing of the knowledge about sustainable tourism on the territory

-Start meaningful network actions on the territory concerning sustainable tourism

ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
-Improve the management of the territory, the offer of services through the implementation of modern information and communication technologies.

-Define, develop and invest in instruments and procedures to effectively and efficiently collect, process and distribute the information
-Invest in the development of human resources who will directly, or indirectly, contribute to the management and the correct functioning of the receiving information system, so that each actor will be able to make its valuable contribution to the system
ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE & OFFER QUALITY SERVICES
-Promote sustainable tourism to entrain the development of the Mediterranean islands system

-Development of a tourist relation-integrated marketing strategy for the development and the management of tourism to promote synergy
All general aspects of the project have been defidend, including the application form, general plan of activities and budget. Now Italian proponents are building international partnership asking for a partner really interested in carrying out this project.
All those concerned can contact Us for more details and informations about action plans and project outputs.
Please note that the Italian project proponents have a consolidated practice and experience in leading and managing Project under the programme InterregIII.

Actually Italian partners are:

- Campania Region (Lead partner)

- Comune di Forio - Isola d'Ischia

- Consorzio ENEA

- GAL Isole EOLIE

- Isole Egadi