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17 September 2025

Coastour sustainability monitoring assessment tool

Adventure tourism

Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism

Cultural tourism

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COASTOUR (co-funded by the European Union) supports the sustainable and flexible transformation of rural and coastal tourism. Its online self-assessment tool helps tourism and HORECA companies track progress and benchmark their sustainability performance over time.

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NorthDenmark EU-Office

Related Organisation(s)

Azores Destination Management Organization (Azores DMO)

NorthDenmark EU-Office

University of Primorska

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Geographical descriptors

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

Other

Organisation Type

Business Support Organisation

Company with 250 or more employees

Cultural and Heritage Organisations

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

NGOs / Non-profits

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

Other

  • Specific types of tourism

    • Adventure tourism

    • Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism

    • Cultural tourism

    • Ecotourism

    • Education tourism

    • Festival tourism

    • Gastronomy tourism

    • Health and medical tourism

    • MICE tourism

    • Mountain tourism

    • Religious tourism

    • Rural tourism

    • Sports tourism

    • Urban/city tourism

    • Wellness tourism

  • Transition Pathway Strategic Areas

    • Green Transition of Tourism Companies and SMEs

  • Business activities

    • Activities of amusement parks and theme parks

    • Activities of associations and other organisations supporting tourism

    • Air passenger transport

    • Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks

    • Events catering and other food services

    • Festivals, cultural and entertainment activities

    • Gardens and nature reserves activities

    • Holiday Housing / Apartments and other short stay accommodation

    • Hotel and similar accommodation

    • Mobile beverage services

    • Mobile food services

    • Museums

    • Operation of historical sites

    • Other

    • Other accommodation

    • Other amusement and recreation activities

    • Other food and beverage services

    • Other holiday reservation services

    • Other tourism transportation activities

    • Rail Passenger transport

    • Recreational and sport activities

    • Restaurants, cafes and bars (Food and Beverage serving activities)

    • Road passenger transport

    • Tour operator activities

    • Travel agency activities

    • Water (sea, coastal and inland) passenger transport

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The COASTOUR project focuses on advancing sustainability in rural and coastal tourism through practical, easy-to-use resources. A central component is an open-access self-assessment tool that offers a streamlined set of indicators for monitoring sustainability and an intuitive way for companies to evaluate their practices.

The self-assessment tool, available at https://sustainablelabel.eu/, gathers:

  1. core organizational details (collected in line with GDPR and established ethical standards in social science research),

  2. information on implemented sustainability initiatives and practices, and

  3. data related to the organization’s sustainability footprint.

These inputs enable organizations to track their progress over time and compare performance at multiple levels—by industry classification (e.g., NACE code), within their country, and across the EU among peers using the COASTOUR self-assessment tool. The tool can be used independently or with support from a COASTOUR sustainability advisor.

Access is designed to be flexible: users can return to the tool multiple times and continue where they left off by logging in with the email and password created during the first visit. For additional guidance, a user manual is available.

We appreciate support for the tourism and HORECA sector’s sustainability transition and the commitment to ongoing self-evaluation of progress.

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