Sails Project – How big nautical sports events propel nautical tourism

[BIC Alentejo | Sines Tecnopolo]

Maritime Tourism is a growing touristic trend in Europe, adding value and renewing the touristic offer of a region. In Maritime Tourism we find two main types of activities: Recreational nautical activities, such as surfing, wind-surfing, sailing and jet skiing, and Nautical sports, like ship races, fishing and diving competitions, among other events. Although recreational nautical activities bring you a steady activity through-out the year, the nautical sports events, mainly large ones, bring to a region a bigger amount of visitors, although for a smaller period of time, being a huge promotion and speaker opportunity for the region and it’s Maritime and overall Touristic offer.
This types of events, specially the larger and more credited one’s, apart from the speaker opportunities and bringing a bigger amount of visitors during their duration, also have a set of requirements that any region that wants to receive them must meet. This requirements are in place so potential hosts meet the quality standards of the event itself and, mainly, are about nautical activities, entertainment and touristic facilities such as restaurants and bedding. Meeting this requirements means that this region has a touristic offer, namely maritime, that meets the quality standards of the event or events it intends to host, meaning that meeting this requirements makes a region a better touristic destination and can build up its identity as a quality maritime and nautical touristic site. This can help develop all touristic regional activity and, more specifically, the recreational nautical activity facilities, companies and services that can, therefor, bring you more visitors throughout the year, battling the seasonal tendency of other touristic offers.
Maritime Tourism is a strategic european area for its ability to help develop Europe’s touristic offer, being a cross-cluster field with the potential to develop several economic fields. This is an important area for our region and, we believe, for other costal touristic destinations in Europe.
What we propose is an INTERREG MED modular project that studies the hosting and requirements of big Nautical Sports Events and their impact in maritime and overall tourism demand, as well as in regional economic development, taking in to account how meeting these requirements and turning them into good practices help develop the maritime and nautical tourism offer, in the Mediterranean Coast. Since our municipality is a candidate to host the Tall Ships Race in 2017, we choose this event, and its requirements, as a case study. We intend to build a good practice guide from the results of this study and create a network that can help implement, monitor and improve it.

We have 3 partners so far (Portugal, Spain and Italy) but we’re still loking for partners to join us in this project, namely from a diferente country then the ones stated.

Feel free to contact us here or through mic@sinestecnopolo.org

[Zannet SakerParticipant]

Good morning,

I represent the Municipality of Alimos, in Attica region, Greece. Alimos is looking for public authorities to be involved in a MED project proposal focused on the Priority Axis 3, under the following specific objective:

• Coastal & Marine time sustainable tourism

If you are interested in developing a project in line with the above mentioned topic, please don’t hesitate to contact us, for more information.

Attached you will find a brief presentation of the municipality and its unique tourism advantages (largest marina in Greece).

Thank you in advance,
Sincerely,
Zanet Saker
Email: z.saker@mck.gr

Attachments:

1. Municipality-of-Alimos7.pdf

[Sines TecnopoloParticipant]

We are pleased to inform that we have closed our partnership Consortium so we will not be able to include any more organizations in this format. If you still want to work with us and feel like you can participate in any other way, according to the program’s methodology and regulation, feel free to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

We thank all the interest showned so far.

With our best regards,

Miguel Correia
BIC Alentejo | Sines Tecnopolo

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