tourism
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Tourism and heritage

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STAR
28 Apr 2025

Evaluating and enhancing rural tourism strategies: online tool by UN Tourism

The Self-Assessment Tool to Assist Rural Destinations (STAR) by UN Tourism is a digital platform aimed at empowering public authorities in rural areas to evaluate and enhance their tourism development strategies.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Best Tourism Villages
25 Apr 2025

UN Tourism seeks to recognise rural tourism practices: apply to the call for Best Tourism Villages by 19 May

The Best Tourism Villages initiative by UN Tourism recognises villages around the world that demonstrate how tourism can drive positive transformation in rural areas. The call for applications for the fifth edition is open until 19 May 2025.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
rural tourism at Italian sustainability expo
18 Mar 2025

Rural Pact among key European initiatives for rural tourism at Italian sustainability expo

Tourism is a driver of rural economic diversification, environmental sustainability, and social resilience. The Rural Pact is a key instrument to support the development of sustainable rural tourism by amplifying rural voices, enabling networking and collaboration, and encouraging voluntary actions for the rural vision.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform

Upcoming events

Webinar

Good Practice Webinar on sustainable rural tourism

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
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Yunka Festival

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Calendar

Latest publications

Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar: 'Enhancing rural mobility through local action'
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Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar: 'Enhancing rural mobility through local action'

This highlights report outlines the outputs of the Good Practice Webinar on rural mobility of 20 June 2024, hosted online by the Rural Pact Support Office in collaboration with SMARTA-NET.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform

Latest good practice

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Methodology | 04 Sep 2024

Collaborative, community-driven model for sustainable development in a Catalan rural region

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Social economy cluster transforms a Polish rural area through sustainable tourism
Methodology | 11 Jun 2024

Social economy cluster transforms a Polish rural area through sustainable tourism

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Revitalising river basins: empowering coastal communities in rural Basilicata, Italy
Project | 11 Mar 2024

Revitalising river basins: empowering coastal communities in rural Basilicata, Italy

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform