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17 September 2025
COASTOUR - Sustainable and Resilient Transformation of the Rural Coastal Tourism Industry
Projects
17 September 2025
Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism
Green Transition of Tourism Companies and SMEs
Activities of amusement parks and theme parks
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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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