Sustainable Cultural Tourism is the integrated management of cultural heritage and tourism activities in conjunction with the local community, creating social, environmental and economic benefits for all stakeholders in order to achieve tangible and intangible cultural heritage conservation and sustainable tourism development. (European Commission DG EAC, OMC Report 2019).
Sustainable Tourism is tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities. (UNWTO).
Sustainable Tourism is tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities. (UNWTO).
ECTN Workshop at European Week of Regions and Cities
Relaunching European Sustainable Tourism through Cultural Heritage Cooperation and Digitalisation Online, 13 October 2022, 11:30 Brussels time including ECTN projects: ReInHerit Horizon2020, Cult-CreaTE Interreg Europe, CHRISTA Interreg Europe ECTN welcomes and supports the 11th Cultural Routes Forum !
![]() ECTN welcomes the publication 'Transition pathway for tourism' *
The aim of this report is to describe the measures and outputs needed to accelerate the green and digital transitions and improve the resilience of the tourism ecosystem. The objective is to encourage and invite all groups and stakeholders in the tourism ecosystem to engage and play their part in the initiative. The work to prepare the pathway has followed a collaborative approach involving all stakeholder groups. Similar active and productive collaboration should support also the way forward. Following the publication of this report, the Commission will invite tourism stakeholders to present their commitments to the transition pathway for tourism, and it will establish collaboration processes for the co-implementation and monitoring of the work. The follow-up of the transition pathway will be facilitated by an online stakeholder collaboration platform, which is to be established by end of 2022. The report includes several references in relation to cultural heritage tourism. In particular, ECTN welcomes the several and highly relevant references on:
The above will be included in the updated ECTN Charter for Sustainable Cultural Tourism as well as in the contribution by ECTN on cultural heritage managememt guidelines in the framework of the ReInHerit Horizon2020 Coordination and Support Action. They will also be presented and discussed at the ECTN annual Conference 2022. * European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Transition pathway for tourism, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2873/344425 ![]() Mr Piet Jaspaert elected as ECTN Honorary member
The ECTN General Assembly has ratified the nomination by the ECTN Board for Mr Piet Jaspaert as an honarary member of ECTN. Mr Piet Jaspaert is a Vice-President of 'Europa Nostra' and Chair of the 'European Heritage Alliance 3.3' meetings. He has been a speaker at 5 annual ECTN Conferences since 2017 and has supported ECTN events in Brussels in 2016 and 2018 (European Week of Regions & Cities). Since 2018 he has served as Chair of the joint Jury for the ECTN Awards. He is holder of a Medal of Honour by Europa Nostra for his services to cultural heritage. ECTN Honorary members are individuals who have particularly distinguished themselves in the field of cultural tourism and have actively contributed to ECTN activities and events. The role of Honorary members is advisory. Mr Jaspaert joins the previous ECTN Honorary members Androula Vassiliou, former Commissioner, Adrian Linders, Secretary-General of E-FAITH and Michael Cramer, former MEP and Chair of the TRAN Committee of EP. The ECTN Awards ceremony took place in Athens, Greece, on 21 October 2021,
at the 14th Conference for Cultural Tourism in Europe ![]() ECTN supports the #Tourism4Recovery campaign and the ‘Call for Action: Accelerate Social and Economic Recovery by Investing in Sustainable Tourism Development’ ![]()
ECTN welcomes the new guidelines on responsible restart of cultural tourism by UNWTO in collaboration with UNESCO News Release Guidelines ![]() ECTN celebrated 10 years of activities 2009 - 2019 !
ECTN was established as AISLB in Brussels on 20 May 2009. This year ECTN celebrates 10 years of continuous activities and growth, from the 6 founding members in 2009 to 29 members in 2019 and from 5 countries to 19 countries! During its 10 years of existence, ECTN has participated in 5 EU co-funded projects (4 currently active, established by the ECTN Secretariat), organised 9 international conferences and awarded annual prizes for 'Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism' since 2014.
ECTN a member of the Stakeholders Commitee for the EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 2018, selected by the European Commission DG Education & Culture (EAC)
ECTN is the only member of the EYCH 2018 Stakeholders Committee with a tourism mandate |
ECTN welcomes new members and previous members rejoining
ECTN is a member of the:
ECTN is a signatory of the:
Tribute to Mikis Theodorakis at the ECTN 2022 Conference and Awards, Athens, Greece
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