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Analysis of circular tourism as a tool for the recovery after Covid19.
Published on 28 February 2022
Spain
Castilla-La Mancha
Verónica Marugal Pereyra
Deputy ministry of environment
About this good practice
With more than 2.600 million euros of GDP, tourism is a sector that involves 7% of Castilla-La Mancha GDP and 57.000 direct jobs. Due to Covid19, 54% of hotel overnight stays and 35% of rural overnight stays were lost. This is a sector that also involves high local impacts producing negative externalities and could stimulate circular flows to reconcile tourism with sustainable management of resources.
The practice consists on making a diagnosis of the situation of tourism sector in our 5 provinces and the development of 2 Circular Tourism zones per province with their pilot projects and actions. In addition, a call of grants (on development) for funding projects to enterprises on those areas will be published.
On the diagnosis process were used indicators such as: target subsectors, indirect beneficiary sectors, depopulation level, number of visitors, high value natural & cultural elements, environmental education facilities, associative tissue, etc.
With all this, was calculated the territorial potential for implementing circular tourism projects. The results actually are: Cuenca (4 projects, 42 actions), Ciudad Real (3 projects, 21 actions), Guadalajara (12 projects), Toledo (10 actions) and Albacete (16 projects).
The organisation that promotes the initiative is Circular Economy Directorate-General; the beneficiaries will be the enterprises of the areas (benefited from grants), and indirectly local authorities due to the benefits from the whole sector.
The practice consists on making a diagnosis of the situation of tourism sector in our 5 provinces and the development of 2 Circular Tourism zones per province with their pilot projects and actions. In addition, a call of grants (on development) for funding projects to enterprises on those areas will be published.
On the diagnosis process were used indicators such as: target subsectors, indirect beneficiary sectors, depopulation level, number of visitors, high value natural & cultural elements, environmental education facilities, associative tissue, etc.
With all this, was calculated the territorial potential for implementing circular tourism projects. The results actually are: Cuenca (4 projects, 42 actions), Ciudad Real (3 projects, 21 actions), Guadalajara (12 projects), Toledo (10 actions) and Albacete (16 projects).
The organisation that promotes the initiative is Circular Economy Directorate-General; the beneficiaries will be the enterprises of the areas (benefited from grants), and indirectly local authorities due to the benefits from the whole sector.
Resources needed
The amount of financial resources for the diagnosis in the region was 83.600 € and the call for grants will be (it’s on development) 280.000 € and will subsidize projects that reduce waste, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote competitiveness, reduce water waste & other specific objectives.
Evidence of success
After diagnosis, analysing and public participation, outputs of these studies where 45 pilot projects in our region and 73 concreted actions distributed in the provinces. And also, the development of indicators that evaluate the potential of each territory for the implementation of pilot projects.
Potential for learning or transfer
It could be an interesting start point for other regions with geographic similarities and population distribution that have had the same problems on decreasing of tourists and GDP decreasing related with tourism due to pandemic situation.
The diagnosis is the first step and also the critical one, for identifying and having concrete conclusions on were to start the implementation of Circular Tourism projects in different areas.
The kind of actions and initiatives resulted of the diagnosis may be scalable for other regions.
The diagnosis is the first step and also the critical one, for identifying and having concrete conclusions on were to start the implementation of Circular Tourism projects in different areas.
The kind of actions and initiatives resulted of the diagnosis may be scalable for other regions.
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Good practice owner
Organisation
Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
Castilla-La Mancha
Contact
Verónica Marugal Pereyra
Deputy ministry of environment