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Europarc Annual Meeting in Vernante and Saint Martin VésubieVernante, a Municipality of Parco delle Alpi Marittime, and Saint Martin Vésubie, a Municipality of Parc national du Mercantour, will house the Europarc Federation annual meeting from 3rd to 6th June. Both the Parks already joining the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism and the parks that want to join it will take part. About one hundred persons coming from Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Great Britain, Scotland, Finland, and... Italy, of course, will meet in the Italian and French locations to debate and tackle the Charter issue. In our Country, only Monti Sibillini National Park and Adamello-Brenta Park, together with Alpi Marittime Park, boasts the prestigious recognition. The participants will get to Vernante on 3rd June and will be welcomed by the local and Park authorities in the municipal theater. The day after, Europarc plenary session will be held. Afterwards, a series of meetings among experts in the economic, social, environmental, and tourist fields will take place with the aim to assess and set guidelines on the application of the Charter for Sustainable Tourism, the marketing and communication actions, advice to the applicants on how to obtain the instrument. On 5th June, before moving to Saint Martin Vésubie where the conclusions will be presented, the participants will have the opportunity to visit the territory with tours to Palanfré, Terme, and Valle Roya. Europarc was born in 1973 as the "Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe". It is a pan-european and politically independent organization formed by experts and Park Authorities of over 400 national protected areas in 38 Countries. The Federation includes national and regional protected areas, as well as non-governmental organizations and academic institutions involved and specialized in the management of protected areas. The aims of Europarc are enhancing and improving the management level of protected areas and protecting the natural varieties we can find in Europe, as well as to preserve the different species, landscape features and beauties. Europarc collaborates with IUCN - World Conservation Union, WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature, and with the European Commission. The European Charter for Sustainable Tourism is one of the main instruments to achieve the Federation aims and reflects the world priorities expressed by the recommendations of Agenda 21, adopted during the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992 and by the 6th Community Program for Sustainable Development Actions. The Charter was developed by a European work group formed by representatives of protected areas, the field of tourism, and their partners, under the patronage of Europarc, and is inspired by the recommendations drawn up in the study commissioned by the Federation in 1993, "Loving Them to Death? Sustainable Tourism in Europe's Nature and National Parks". The Charter is one of the priorities for the European Parks set by the IUCN Parks for Life action program (1994). The increasing importance of a tourist sustainable development as an international issue has been highlighted by the "Guidelines for International Sustainable Tourism" of the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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"Marittime-Mercantour: Building Together the Future of a Transfrontier Territory"
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