EUSBSR Policy Area Tourism coordinators are happy to invite all BSR stakeholders for a webinar on EU tourism initiatives. On 20th April, 11.00-12.30 CET, we organise an informative session with the European Commission Experts from DG REGIO, who will briefly introduce two initiatives: 

• The transition pathway for tourism --> the first in a series of transition pathways for EU industrial ecosystems explained by Kirsti ALA-MUTKA, Policy Officer, DG GROW unit G1 (Tourism, textiles)
• EU Tourism Dashboard --> online knowledge tool aimed at monitoring the green and digital transitions of the tourism ecosystem to make tourism more resilient and sustainable by Ricardo Barranco, Scientific Officer, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC). 

This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about these tools and documents, test them and see how these could be used in your daily work. Whether you represent a tourism-related project, DMO, public authority, business entity or academia, if you are interested in expanding your knowledge, you are warmly welcome to join.

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Transition pathway for tourism

Following the 2021 Updated Industrial Strategy and given the many challenges faced by the tourism industry and the major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism ecosystem was the first industrial ecosystem to work on a transition pathway.

The extensive stakeholders co-creation processEN began in June 2021 with a targeted consultation on possible scenarios for transition. Altogether over 30 workshops and meetings were held with stakeholders to further brainstorm and elaborate the ideas. 

The transition pathway identifies 27 areas of measures for the green and digital transition, and for improving the resilience of EU tourism. It calls for more circular and environmentally friendly services in tourism, enhancing data sharing for more innovative services, and improving accessibility of services, among others.

The EU Tourism Dashboard

Dashboard is an online knowledge tool developed by the European Commission, aimed at promoting and monitoring the (1) green and digital transitions   and  (2) socio-economic resilience factors of the European tourism ecosystem.

The dashboard offers visualisations of tourism-relevant data and indicators collected from available, trusted sources concerning the tourism ecosystem, to allow the profiling and monitoring of the progress of EU countries towards the EU policy objectives. The indicators of the EU Tourism Dashboard are organised under three policy pillars: ‘environmental impacts’, ‘digitalisation’, and ‘socio-economic vulnerability’. In addition, the dashboard offers a set of ‘basic tourism descriptors’ to provide further context regarding the characteristics of tourism destinations in terms of demand, supply and tourism offer. The dashboard currently covers all the EU27 Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, and targets decision makers and tourism managers to steer policies and strategies in the tourism ecosystem as the primary audience.