Last week, I attended a workshop about The Future of Tourism: Tomorrow’s Tourist Today, held in Llandudno Junction, Wales.
We already started the work at the places2b project, locally and inside the partnership and I have to state that this work is really challenging for different reasons. We aim to bring together local authorities and local people to discuss the development of tourism and to create a regional tourist guide, containing unique places of the region. Sounds good, nearly everyone likes this idea, even the local authorities. So they’re saying. But when it comes to step up, they have many reasons not to show up. I know, that this is a long haul and we have to be really optimistic.
The last weeks were very busy with project meetings.
All together, we hosted four meetings here in Fitou:
Today, while preparing the places2b meeting for next week, we did a little research about the situation in Languedoc-Roussillon.
Due to fast globalization and the possibility to get to every place in the world in less time, people want to have authentic and individualized experiences while spending their spare time. The preservation and promotion of their landscape and culture for developing sustainable touristic structures will be important for European regions and its embedded local areas. That can also be a chance for supporting the diversification of regional economies.