Tourism workshops in the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean network of Marine Protected Areas Managers (MedPAN) and the MedPAN Annual General Assembly are hosting a series of workshops on tourism in Mediterranean MPAs from 27 November to 1 December 2023 in Hyères, France and online. These events will be organised in partnership with Port-Cros National Park, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

The focus will be on tourism in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas. The workshop's overall objective will be to enable MPA managers and stakeholders to pool and share knowledge, expertise and experiences in managing tourism pressure and its impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems and cooperating towards a transition to sustainable tourism.

Besides the opening plenary session to introduce the topic, the closing session to share the main conclusions and recommendations, and a field visit, the workshop programme consists of 9 discussion sessions introduced by case study presentations. Topics for discussion sessions were identified and prioritised on the basis of 170 responses from MPA managers and stakeholders to a questionnaire circulated last June and then refined with the help of the Workshop Steering Committee.

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