From April 15 to 17, 2024, the MEET Network travelled to La Londe-les-Maures (France) to join MedPAN’s regional experience-sharing workshop on ‘Managing Tourism in Marine Protected Areas’.
In a significant stride towards advancing ecotourism knowledge and skills across the Mediterranean and beyond, MEET Network is proud to announce the launch of four new online courses on ecotourism development in collaboration with the IUCN Academy.
The MEET Network renews its collaboration with Intrepid Travel to offer an authentic 9-day expedition in Albania. This unique ecotourism experience, perfect for those who seek adventure while supporting local communities and conservation efforts, will be departing for the first time in September 2023. Bookings are already available!
On Wednesday the 23rd of June IUCN Med and the MEET Network presented its work related to ecotourism governance and development, at a workshop on sustainable tourism for Maldivian Protected Areas (PA).
We are glad to communicate that DestiMED project and MEET Network are present in the recently published European Travel Commission Handbook, created with the aim of sharing knowledge among destinations to rebuild the tourism sector after Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of safer and more sustainable travels. The DestiMED project and MEET Network have been featured as a case study thanks to their methodology to calculate the Ecological Footprint of ecotourism packages.
The MEET Network has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Good Practices database for its work on the promotion and development of ecotourism in the Mediterranean.
DestiMED PLUS project and MEET Network’s ecotourism experiences have been featured as a sustainable solution that could help move the date of the Earth Overshoot Day.
The Mediterranean Experience for Ecotourism Network (MEET Network) is partnering up with conservation travel experts WWF Travel. WWF Travel will be including MEET’s diverse portfolio of ecotourism experiences in their catalogue of conservation-focused tours, available on their website.
Last week MEET Network secretariat and Interreg Med Programme DestiMED PLUS project partner IUCN Med were at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille 2021 sharing their experiences of developing ecotourism that benefits conservation and local communities in Mediterranean protected areas. And the value of measuring and monitoring impacts to ensure tourism product quality and sustainability.
On Wednesday the 23rd of June IUCN Med and the MEET Network presented its work related to ecotourism governance and development, at a workshop on sustainable tourism for Maldivian Protected Areas (PA).
MEET Network Experiences will now be available to a wider global market thanks to an exclusive new partnership Intrepid Travel.
Valberg Winter Resort has adopted the MEET approach to ecotourism development, building on the work of Interreg-Med DestiMED and ENI CBC MEET projects.
