Tourism-driven strategic planning : guidelines for the co-evolution of human activities and natural system for the development of sustainable coastal and maritime tourism

The aim of this book is to provide useful guidelines to Co-Evolve Pilot Areas, and other Mediterranean areas, to develop and implement an effective strategic plan to address a sustainable tourism co-evolution. The main scope of the guidelines is to provide Public Administrations, in charge of construct and promote plans at local level, an operative and easily applicable tool to construct placebased
strategic plans coherent with ICZM principles and Sustainable Coastal Tourism main goals.
The purpose of tourism-driven strategic planning is to define a clear vision of what a place could be in the long terms and set the most feasible methods of implementing policies. Within Co-Evolve project, the Guidelines for tourism-driven strategic planning are the results of the efforts made at European and national levels to promote an integrate and sustainable development of coastal and
maritime areas, increasing connections, enhancing the valorisation of local peculiarities and reducing cumulative pressure.