Central Europe Eco-Tourism: tools for nature protection
The last European ‘State of Environment Report’ states that the most effective goal related to nature conservation is to foster ecosystems resilience, a vision in which human activities are the main driving force. Within protected areas, tourism can be the most effective tool to valorize natural heritage, to contribute to its conservation, and to achieve well-being of local communities. The identification of appropriate, cost-effective and low-impact models to manage a sustainable tourism, however, remains an open challenge in central Europe. In this context, the CEETO project aimed at implementing an innovative governance system for tourism based on a participatory planning approach that will help to improve the managing capacities of managers of protected areas. Moreover, CEETO aimed at identifying and testing innovative management and monitoring tools specifically focused on sustainable tourism activities in different contexts.
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Start Date
June 1 2017
End Date
May 31 2020
TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
The following tools have been developed in the framework of CEETO project in order to support the work of Protected Area proffesionals in developing Sustainable Tourism strategies:
Handbook of Sustainable Tourism 
| Guidelines for Policy Makers 
| Manual for Park Managers 
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Outcomes of CEETO Final Conference - May 14th 2020
Get information on CEETO Final Conference, learn about CEETO project main achievements and tools and download the presentations.
A Sustainable Journey - The CEETO film on Sustainable Tourism
A Sustainable Journey is a five-time internationally awared film created in the framework of CEETO project with the objective of raising awareness on the importance of Sustainable Tourism among travellers and local communities alike.
Find out more about the movie and watch it online!
PROJECT NEWS
PROMOTIONAL MATeRIALS
Below you will find a repository of the promotional material that has been produced for the implementation of CEETO project. Browse among the different folders to see or download the posters, leaflets, maps, etc.
Roll-ups
- Nature Park Medvednica Protected Area Roll-up. English. (pdf 23.9 MB)
- UNESCO Biosphere Southeast-Ruegen Protectged Area Roll-up (pdf 17.8 MB)
- Emilia Centrale Park's Area Roll-up (pdf 1.7 MB)
- CEETO Project Roll-up - English (pdf 0.8 MB)
- Alto Appennino Modenese Regional Park Roll-up (pdf 1.6 MB)
- Parco Appennino Tosco Emiliano Protected Area Roll-up (pdf 4.8 MB)
- CEETO Project Roll-up Italian (pdf 2.4 MB)
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Salzburger Lungau Protected Area Roll-up (pdf 20.3 MB)
- Strunjan Landscape Park Protected Area Roll-up (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Parco del del Po Protected Area Roll-up (pdf 2.0 MB)
- Nature Park Medvednica Protected Area Roll-up. Croatian. (pdf 2.0 MB)
CEETO Leaflets
- Leaflet for Tourists_English (pdf 0.7 MB)
- Leaflet for Tourists_Italian (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Leaflet for Communities_Italian (pdf 2.1 MB)
- Leaflet for Communities-Slovenia (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Leaflet for Communities_English (pdf 0.8 MB)
- Leaflet for Tourists-Slovenian (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Leaflet for Communities-Croatian (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Leaflet for Tourists-Croatian (pdf 1.6 MB)
- Leaflet for Tourists_German (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Leaflet for Communities-German (pdf 2.0 MB)
PROJECT PHASES & OUTCOMES
PHASE 1
DIAGNOSTIC
June 2017 - February 2018
This Work Package is organised in two sessions: 1) a diagnostic on most innovative and succesful policies/tools currently in practice for tourism management inside natural Protected Areas in EU and worldwide; 2) a site-specific analysis on the Protected Areas involved in the Pilots Actions.
Main Outputs:
- CEETO Handbook.
- Inventory of tools and success stories.
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PHASE 2
TESTING
February 2018 - September 2019
Based on the Diagnostic inputs, this Work Package's main goal is to test a model of governance of tourism flows within the pilot Protected Areas aimed a reducing environmental impacts and pressures of tourism and enhance the socio-economic benefits that can come from sustainable tourism approach.
Main Outputs:
- 8 Sustainable Tourism Action Plans.
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PHASE 3
GUIDELINES
May 2019 - March 2020
This Work Package 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 an management within and around Protected Areas.
Main Outputs:
- CEETO Guidelines for developing Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas.
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PHASE 4
NETWORK
February 2018 - May 2020
This Work Package is designed to capitalize common knowledge and to set up the CEETO Network. The CEETO Network Strategic Agenda, will capitalize Work Package 2 pilot actions results to develop a Manual for Protected Areas on tourism governance model.
Main Outputs:
- CEETO Online Platform
- CEETO Manual of sustainable tourism governance for Protected Area Managers.
- CEETO Network Strategy.
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