Participants from tourism, culture, regenerative agriculture, public institutions and civil society presented very different starting points. In L'Escala in Catalonia, a pilot is working to revive traditional boat-building and repair skills alongside routes that support residents' wellbeing, as a response to seasonality and the loss of local knowledge. On Hvar, the Split-Dalmatia development agency is linking visitor experiences with local food production, regenerative agriculture, medicinal plants and cultural landscape, while Ljubljana examples included museum-led projects and the links between regenerative farming and tourism.

The forum was organised within the Regenera4MED project, which is developing shared Guiding Principles for Regenerative Tourism in the Mediterranean, a reflection tool called the Regenerative Tourism Journey, an integrated governance model and a training programme. Six pilot areas in Catalonia, Liguria, Abruzzo, Crete, Corsica and Split-Dalmatia now move into implementation, so destinations interested in the regenerative approach will soon be able to see how the principles perform in real local conditions.

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