Tourism2030 - About

Tourism2030 - About <div> <table style="width: 765px; background-color: #ffffff;" border="1" cellspacing="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"> <div><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network" title="Back to EEN Home"><img src="/images/een%20logo%20mit%20Name.jpg" style="width: 160px; height: 67px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" height="67" width="160" /></a></div> <div><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Knowledge</span> <span style="color: #339966;">Base </span></span></strong></div> </td> <td><img src="/images/ecotourism in estonia picture.JPG-1" style="width: 437px; height: 106px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" height="109" width="449" /></td> <td><a href="/portal_map?lat_center=54.5259614&lon_center=15.2551187&map_zoom=3&map_engine=google&base_layer=hybrid&geo_types%3Alist=symbol921&geo_types%3Alist=symbol806&geo_types%3Alist=symbol906&geo_types%3Alist=symbol395&geo_types%3Alist=symbol446&geo_types%3Alist=symbol678&geo_types%3Alist=symbol984&geo_types%3Alist=symbol130&geo_types%3Alist=symbol683&geo_types%3Alist=symbol834&geo_types%3Alist=symbol930&geo_types%3Alist=symbol009&geo_types%3Alist=symbol338&geo_types%3Alist=symbol092&geo_types%3Alist=symbol247&geo_types%3Alist=symbol998&geo_types%3Alist=symbol029&geo_types%3Alist=symbol078&geo_types%3Alist=symbol876&topics%3Alist=sustainable-supply-chain-management&topics%3Alist=destination-management-good-governance&topics%3Alist=quality-assessment-certification-and-marketing&topics%3Alist=climate-change-energy-and-environmental-resources&topics%3Alist=knowledge-networking-training-and-education&topics%3Alist=natural-cultural-heritage&topics%3Alist=sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching&topics%3Alist=sustainable-transport&landscape_type%3Alist=Urban&landscape_type%3Alist=Forest&landscape_type%3Alist=Coastal&landscape_type%3Alist=Marine&landscape_type%3Alist=Mountain&landscape_type%3Alist=Protected&landscape_type%3Alist=Rural&landscape_type%3Alist=Unspecified&administrative_level%3Alist=Local&administrative_level%3Alist=Regional&administrative_level%3Alist=National&administrative_level%3Alist=Sub-Global&administrative_level%3Alist=Global&administrative_level%3Alist=Unspecified&country=&path=&geo_query=ecotourism" title="Ecotourism in Europe"><img src="/images/Ecotourism DestiNet Atlas.JPG" style="width: 150px; height: 104px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" height="108" width="155" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <table style="border: 1px solid #342899; background-color: #e3b926; width: 770px;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/about" title="About EEN"><span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">About</span></a></strong></span></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/een-european-ecotourism-network" title="EEN Who is Who: Europe & Countries"><strong>Who is Who</strong></a></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/topics-1" title="EEN Topics">Topics</a></strong></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/resources" title="EEN Resources">Resources</a></strong></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/good-practice" title="EEN Good Practice">Good  Practice</a></strong></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/market" title="EEN Market">Market</a></strong></td> <td style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/management" title="EEN Management">Management</a></strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <table align="right" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network" title="Back to EEN Home"><img style="width: 102px; height: 30px; margin: 0px; float: right;" src="/images/Back%20Button.png-1" height="30" width="102" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p></p> <div></div> <table style="width: 765px;" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/resources/publications/ecolnet-info-november-2011-en/download/1/Ecolnet-leaflet_Nov%202011-EN.pdf" title="EEN Leaflet"><img src="/images/flyer title 2011.JPG" style="width: 140px; height: 292px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" height="239" width="114" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/resources/publications/ecolnet-info-november-2011-en/download/1/Ecolnet-leaflet_Nov%202011-EN.pdf" title="EEN Leaflet"></a>For More Information Download the Leaflet</p> </td> <td> <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>History:</strong> The European Ecotourism Knowledge Network (ECOLNET) is a 3-year project (2010-2013) co-financed by the European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme, Transversal Programmes, Key Activity 3-ICT Networks.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The European Ecotourism Network aims to build a community of interest dedicated to genuine conservation, sustainability, and learning.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The European Ecotourism Network (EEN) brings together the stakeholders of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, with a focus on quality standards.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>EEN:</strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">1. Connects nature tourism and ecotourism stakeholders for marketing purposes and knowledge transfer.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">2. Promotes the implementation of the European Ecotourism Labeling Standard (EETLS), a baseline quality standard developed along the lines of the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria for Ecotourism, with special reference to Europe.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">3. Makes available to its members a range of learning products and evaluation tools the implementation of the EETLS.</div> <div><strong> EEN is set up in the context of the ECOLNET project (European Ecotourism Knowledge Network).</strong></div> <div> </div> <div><strong>Objectives:</strong></div> <div> </div> <div> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">Create a network based on a “community of interest”, the European Ecotourism Network, bringing together the stakeholders of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, with a focus on quality standards.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Create an integrated methodology for evaluating quality standards of ecotourism services that allows mutual learning between the main stakeholders, i.e, quality labelling agencies, expert evaluators who perform the quality assessment and tourism businesses</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Introduce a set of practical, cost-effective online evaluation tools for assessing compliance with quality standards; and create online learning tools to train the main stakeholders to use them.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Create career opportunities for tourism professionals and employment prospects for SME staff in the ecotourism and sustainable tourism field.</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">Enrich the curricula of higher education and vocational training institutions in tourism departments with innovative content and learning tools.</li> </ul> </div> <div></div> <div><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/een-european-ecotourism-network/ecolnet-partners" title="EEN Partners & Sponsors">Partners & Sponsors</a></strong></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div></div> <div><strong><br /></strong></div> <table style="width: 765px;" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div><a href="http://www.ecotourism-network.eu/" target="_new" title="Ecolnet"><img src="/images/ecolnet-website-screenshopt.JPG" style="width: 150px; height: 108px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" height="108" width="150" /></a></div> <div></div> <div>ECOLNET Project Nr:143418-LLP-12008-1-GR-KA3-KA3NW </div> <div>With the support of the Lifelong Learning</div> <div>Programme, Key Activity 3, ICT of the European Union</div> </td> <td> <div><strong>The European ECOLNET project</strong></div> <div>has a dual aim:</div> <div></div> <div>a) to create an Ecotourism network to bring together a variety of stakeholders, and</div> <div>b) to develop innovative evaluation tools and learning products for sharing knowledge among the network and facilitating quality certification through the European Ecotourism Labelling Standard (EETLS).</div> <div>The EETLS was developed by two previous Leonardo da Vinci projects in compliance with the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).</div> <div><strong><br /></strong></div> <div><strong><br /></strong></div> <div><strong>All about the the ECOLNET project: click <a href="http://www.ecotourism-network.eu/en-about-us/en-ecolnet" title="Ecolnet Web site">here</a></strong></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div><strong><br /></strong></div> <div><strong><br /></strong></div> <div></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><strong><a href="mailto:herbert.hamele@ecotrans.de">CONTACT</a></strong></div> <div> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Sponsored by:</strong></p> <table align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc78_en.htm" target="_new" title="Life Long Learning Programme"><img style="width: 140px; height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" src="/images/DEF flag-logoeac-LLP_EN (Small).jpg" height="56" width="140" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> 2013-12-12T10:08:19Z tag:destinet.eu,2013-12-12:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/european-ecotourism-network/about https://destinet.eu/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gif ECOTRANS Tourism2030