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  • Insights from Tourist-friendly Cities network: Integrating health & safety in a new model for sustainable tourism

    In the framework of the fifth transnational meeting that took place in January 28-29 2021, the Tourism-friendly Cities (TFC) URBACT network focused at one key element for consolidating sustainable

  • Genoa and its work on a sustainable tourism development

    Genoa has been recognized for long time as an industrial city, dominated by its port and its historical steel industries which were the main economical sources of the city until its drastic imagine

  • Cáceres worked for a resiliant Christmas

    This unprecedented Christmas, Cáceres ULG dealt with a tough question: how to design a Christmas cultural programme adapted to the health restrictions while reaching all corners of the town and

  • A closer cooperation between culture and tourism at the core of the Tourism Forum in Krakow

    On the 15th of December 2020, another meeting of the Urbact Local Group was held in Krakow in the frame of the Tourism Friendly Cities project. It was a part of a Tourism Forum organized as a partial

  • Druskininkai and 10 criteria for sustainable tourism

    Druskininkai Municipality was in full lockdown from 16th of March to 8th of May when the curve of the first Covid-19 wave was starting to flatten.

  • Rovaniemi works together with students and stakeholders to avoid the unwanted risks of tourism

    Rovaniemi ULG started its work during the first phase and it had several meetings during the past year. Due to COVI-19 pandemic the group hasn’t had a chance to meet face to face since last March but

  • Dun Laoghaire's work on the Coastal Region

    Within the TFC Action Planning Network the city of Dun Laoghaire has decided to focus its ULG and future works on the coastal region (South of Dublin City) between Booterstown and Dalkey.

  • Braga sets up its participatory approach to the ULG

                                  How to structure an ULG in these times of COVID 19 outbreak? The city of Braga shares its experiences and explains step by step how to approach and structure in the best

  • Krakow analyzes sustainable tourism policy within its ULG

    On October 6 th, the ULG online meeting in Krakow gathered a large number of participants (52 people) to analyze and discuss the new strategic document of the city entitled "Krakow's sustainable