Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
The overall objective of the Tourism Plan 2022-2028 is to make Auvergne-Rhone-Alps the first European destination for sustainable tourism. The Plan declines the regional tourism strategy in 6 axes:
1. To support the developments in 5 excellence areas: 4-season mountain, sports and outdoor activities, trekking and cycle tourism, gastronomy & wine tourism and thermal tourism.
2. To promote the regional emblematic tourist sites.
3. To develop the accommodation sector.
4. To explore new topics like industrial tourism, business tourism or tourism digitalisation.
5. To push employment and innovation, mainly in relation to tourist sites accessibility.
6. To accompany the territories and the tourism actors’ thanks to the action of the regional tourism agency.
Owing to the structuration of the sector at the national and regional level, industrial tourism became part of the excellence areas in 2023.
For the first three axes, the regional intervention mainly relies on the support to preliminary studies and then to investments.
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Objective: Integrated and sustainable Development for Urban Areas
Characteristics:
The Integrated Spatial Development Strategy of Nicosia for the programming period 2021-2027 defines the investment priorities of the city for “Strengthening integrated and inclusive social, economic and environmental development, culture, cultural heritage, sustainable tourism and safety in urban areas”. A vital pillar of the Strategy concerns the Sustainable Urban Development of the Center of Nicosia with the aim of addressing the challenges (social, economic, environmental). The development of the tourist product and the strengthening of its competitiveness within the city walls is a high priority.
Priority or measure addressed:
“Creation of new or upgrading of existing sites of cultural activities or infrastructures of cultural heritage, including actions to highlight the culture and cultural heritage and/or other actions to enrich the tourist product.”
A set of key targeted actions aim towards improving relevant infrastructure and accessibility, engaging the local community and stakeholders, creating a selection criteria list for the most suitable industrial venues, incorporating digital and emerging technologies into the product development, storytelling and marketing process and formulate the sustainability and eco-friendly framework govern the whole initiative—a holistic approach for substantially enriching the local policy instrument.
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The municipality of Tønder has a tourism strategy that supports the development of a industrial heritage site build around Zeppelin Tønder. In general tourism development in the municipality of Tønder focuses on authentic - and site-specific experinces as mentioned in part 1.1.3.
Tønder Kommunes existing strategy runs until 2025. After that an updated strategy with new inputs has to be formed. The process normally involves workshops with several partners involved in the tourism product in the municipality.
For Tønder Municipality's future tourism strategy, the implementation of the following elements in regards to industrial tourism and how it correlates with the existing tourism products will be crucial:
Objective: The overarching goal or aim of the tourism strategy, such as increasing off-season visitor numbers, enhancing visitor experience, and deleloping sustainable tourism practices.
Characteristics: The defining features or qualities of the tourism strategy, which may include aspects like cultural preservation, environmental sustainability, community engagement, and economic development.
Measure Addressed: Identification of the specific priority or measure that the tourism strategy aims to tackle. This will include boosting off-season tourism to promoting cultural heritage sites.
Relevant Set of Targeted Actions: Including infrastructure development, stakeholder engagement programs, policy changes, or educational initiatives.
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The region has set 5 product lines in its Tourism Management Strategy 2021-2025. Technotrail - Raw Beauty (industrial tourism), Gastronomy, Active Outdoor, Top Czech Events and Family Park. The strategy also defines three guidelines to be followed in order to achieve the best results in the given product lines. These are a functional system of cooperation (role in tourism, coordination of actors, quality) and financing (needs to be reflected in regional subsidy programmes), professional destination management (development, innovation, marketing) and ensuring a year-round offer. The strategy sees industrial tourism as one of the most important aspects of the region's tourism potential. That is why in its Tourism Management Strategy 2021-2025 the region has chosen industrial heritage as one of the five main areas it wants to develop as a potential for increasing the region's tourist attractiveness. The aim of developing this type of tourism is, above all, to increase the intensity of tourism and also to offer visitors a coherent, sophisticated product that will be of interest to them. This strategy will be revised for the period after 2025.
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European Funds for Lodzkie 2021-2027 (FEŁ2027) is the key document defining the strategy for the use of European funds in the region. It contains a catalogue of directions and areas of investment and potential project interventions that will be implemented in current financial perspective. It also complies with the challenges of regional development described in key strategic documents, including areas of intervention targeted at the improvement of the region and its population which require support from EU funds.
Recognized objectives addressed by FEŁ that comply with the field of tourism:
Priority 5: EUROPEAN FUNDS FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LODZKIE
* Specific Objective: RSO5.1. Supporting integrated and inclusive social, economic and environmental, culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism and security in urban areas
* Specific Objective: RSO5.2. Supporting integrated and inclusive social, economic and environmental, culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism and security in non-urban areas.
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Tourism development program of AP Vojvodina from 2023 to 2025 is a document that aims to create more favourable conditions for the significant development of tourism at the provincial level. It is regularly updated and renewed to meet the changing needs. This development program is in line with other planning documents on national and provincial level, as well as with the documents at the international level, with special reference to the EU Strategy for Sustainable Tourism.
The priorities that the INDUSTOUR project can target are the following ones:
Priority 1: Respect for the development concept based on the principles of sustainable development for all types and forms of tourism, i.e. tourist products of AP Vojvodina (Harmonization of the tourist offer with modern trends in tourism; Introduction of new tourist products and attractions).
Priority 2: Strengthening the competitiveness of tourism in AP Vojvodina and tourism-related activities domestic and international markets (Establishing a system of effective interdepartmental cooperation and strengthening the public-private model partnerships).
Priority 4: Strengthening regional cooperation and use of available EU funds (IPA, IPARD) (Cross-sector partnerships and cooperation between destinations).
Priority 6: Digitalization of AP Vojvodina tourism using modern IT tools and creation of virtual tourist tours.
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