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Posted on: 28th December 2011
Earlier this year, a large contract for one of Europe’s most important UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Dutch and German stretch of the famous Wadden Sea, was awarded to EUROPARC Consulting (full article August 2011). The Wadden Sea region requires a sustainable tourism strategy that will help reduce the negative impact of visitors whilst improving the economic contribution of visitors to this part of the Dutch and German North Sea coast.
Now this important project has been extended to include the Danish Wadden Sea area. As nature knows no boundaries, this makes real sense and EUROPARC Consulting is looking forward to involving our Danish colleagues in the work already carried out.
As we mentioned in the August article (click on relevant date on the News page), the strategy and its resulting action plan need the input and co-operation of all the main stakeholders in the area, be they business enterprises, protected areas like national or nature parks and the various ministries and local authorities. The development of the strategy involves consultation and consensus through people talking to each other. It is a journey which stakeholders join in order to move together to a common goal: a more socially responsible, economically beneficial and sustainable form of tourism - not an easy aim to achieve.
However, early results seem to indicate that the proven process which has been so successful for the European Charter of Sustainable Tourism can deliver the right results.