On 16 and 17 February 2021, the third SUSTOURISMO project meeting took place online due to Covid-19 restrictions. The meeting was the occasion for discussing the advancements of the project’s activities, focusing in particular on the main results of the first scientific and data collection activities aimed to support the development of the SUSTOURISMO touristic App and the local touristic packages and rewards systems to be tested during Summer 2021. Hopefully, the current sanitary emergency will rapidly improve as it is strongly affecting all economic sectors, tourism in particular.
Ivona Petrovic, project coordinator, welcomed all partners on behalf of Municipality of Tivat as the hosting partner of the meeting, and Danica Banjevic, Managing Director at Tivat Tourism Organisation presented the importance of the tourism sector in Montenegro (in 2018, 25% of Montenegro GDP was related to tourism) and the strong effort to promote a more sustainable tourism at local level. In fact, since 2011 both the public and private sector invested several resources and launched many projects focusing on supporting environment protection, valorisation of local culture and promotion of sustainable touristic solutions such as e-bike and solar boats in Tivat.
Dr Maria Morfoulaki, head of the Sustainable Mobility Laboratory of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH/HIT), introduced the technical sessions and the main goals of the meeting. In particular, she underlined the importance of starting from the data and scientific evidences collected in the first part of the project in order to develop the SUSTOURISMO App and the local touristic packages and rewards systems, to be implemented in the 10 pilot areas.
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