Projects
17 September 2025
COASTOUR - Sustainable and Resilient Transformation of the Rural Coastal Tourism Industry
Projects
17 September 2025
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The main aim of the project is to develop a sustainability monitoring framework and open access self-assessment tool to monitor the sustainability performance of at least 80 SMEs in the tourism sector across 5 countries, whilst boosting their awareness, development and capacity in the area of sustainable innovations.
NorthDenmark EU-Office
Azores Destination Management Organization (Azores DMO)
NorthDenmark EU-Office
University of Primorska
Topics
EU-27
Academic / Research and VET Institutions
Business Support Organisation
Destination Management & Marketing Organisations
SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)
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Specific types of tourism
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Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism
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Transition Pathway Strategic Areas
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Green Transition of Tourism Companies and SMEs
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Business activities
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Activities of amusement parks and theme parks
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Activities of associations and other organisations supporting tourism
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Air passenger transport
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Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks
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Events catering and other food services
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Festivals, cultural and entertainment activities
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Gardens and nature reserves activities
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Holiday Housing / Apartments and other short stay accommodation
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Hotel and similar accommodation
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Mobile beverage services
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Mobile food services
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Museums
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Operation of historical sites
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Other
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Other accommodation
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Other amusement and recreation activities
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Other food and beverage services
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Other holiday reservation services
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Other tourism transportation activities
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Rail Passenger transport
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Recreational and sport activities
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Restaurants, cafes and bars (Food and Beverage serving activities)
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Road passenger transport
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Tour operator activities
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Travel agency activities
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Water (sea, coastal and inland) passenger transport
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COASTOUR: https://eu-norddanmark.dk/about-coastour/ project’s focus is on sustainable and resilient transformation of the rural coastal tourism industry. Consortium partners, hereby 2 Destination Management organisations,1 University and 4 BSO organisations represent coastal rural areas in 5 countries: Denmark, Lithuania, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia.
Project objectives
- Increasing the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of European rural coastal tourism SMEs;
- Transnational capacity building;
- Strengthening of sustainability advisory support ecosystem synergies with already existent European sustainability frameworks and tools;
- Improve efficiency and effectiveness of the existing EU sustainability frameworks and schemes.
Partners:
- North Denmark EU-Office (DK) - Coordinator
- Danish Coastal and Nature Tourism Fund (DK)
- Promos Italia (IT)
- The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ponta Delgada (PT)
- University of Primorska, Center for Development and Knowledge Transfer (SI)
- Klaipeda Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (LT)
- Azores Destination Management Organization (PT)
For more information reach out to Aija Konisevska Azadi aka@ndeu.dk
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