1. What is Ulixes 21?

Ulixes 21 is a project which aims are to inform and raise the awareness of the agents involved in tourist activity on the need for a greater integration of environmental matters in the planning and the consumption patterns of all the tourism-derived activities in order to ensure the sustainable development of tourism in the Mediterranean coastline.

2. Who is it aimed at?

The project is aimed at both potential and effective tourists and at local government bodies, towns and villages, and all the social sectors and economic sub-sectors directly or indirectly related to tourism.

3. What is its scope of activity?

The project is concentrated in two of the main tourist receiving states on the Mediterranean's coastline, France and Spain, and also in Malta and Morocco. The project also concentrates on three of the main countries of origin for tourists going to these areas, Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

4. What activities and actions are being carried out?

1. We have created and continue to update this interactive, entertaining and participatory web page where you can find information about the program and documentation on tourism and sustainability. It could be consulted in English, French, German, Spanish and Catalan.
2. We have carried out an awareness raising campaign aimed at tourists, who are invited to fill in an interesting and amusing questionnaire that is being distributed on the coastline of France, Spain and Morocco. "Wanted the tourist of the future" have been printed in German, French, English and Spanish.
3. The publication of the book "Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean. Guide for Local Management" aimed at tourist managers containing proposals to apply aspects of sustainability to the local management of tourism. Three editions are being printed in French, Spanish and Catalan.
4. The organization of a travelling exhibition, a photo exhibition accompanied by explanatory texts on environmental aspects of the Mediterranean coastline, and proposals for more rational tourist management.
5. The organization of an International Congress "Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean. The participation of civil society". It was held on October 22, 23 and 24, 1998 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia, Spain).

5. Who is carrying them out?

Project Ulixes 21 has been designed by EcoMediterrània and carried out by EcoMediterrània (Barcelona), the Comité de Liaison des Associations pour l'Environnement du Languedoc-Roussillon (CLAPE-LR, Montpellier), the Association de Protection de l'Environnement pour la Wilaya de Tetouan (APEWT), the Association Marocaine pour la Protection de l'Environnement (ASMAPE, Rabat) and The Ecological Malta Foundation (ECO, Malta) all of which are members of MED Forum, network of Mediterranean NGOs.

6. Who finances it?

Project Ulixes 21 has been financed by Directorate General XI of the european Commission, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, the Environment Ministry of the Generalitat of Catalonia, of the Junta of Andalusia, the Balearic Islands Government and city council of Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Together with the contributions of the city councils of Tarragona, Calvià, Roses, Gruissan and Argelès-sur-Mer.

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