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23 juin 2025

Rural tourism for resilient regions: webinar highlights report available online

Rural tourism is a strategic lever for innovation, economic diversification, and sustainable development, but enabling frameworks are needed to untap its potential – find out more in the highlights report of our dedicated Good Practice Webinar of 7 May 2025.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Tourism and heritage, Prosperous rural areas
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20 juin 2025

Join the new Community group on rural tourism: connect and exchange with peers!

The group is now live on the Rural Pact platform – offering a space for tourism professionals, policymakers, local authorities, community organisations, and entrepreneurs to collaborate for sustainable rural tourism across Europe.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Prosperous rural areas, Tourism and heritage
STAR
28 avr 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
Prosperous rural areas, Tourism and heritage
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Inclusionary approaches to involving cultural actors in place-based tourism

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
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Prosperous rural areas, Tourism and heritage In-person Greece Hellenic Mediterranean University Greece
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Latest publications

Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar ‘Sustainable rural tourism'
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Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar ‘Sustainable rural tourism’

This highlights report outlines the main initiatives and summarises the main messages from the Good Practice Webinar on rural tourism of 7 May 2025, hosted online by the Rural Pact Support Office and RuralTour.

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Prosperous rural areas, Tourism and heritage
Highlights Report | Good Practice Webinar: 'Enhancing rural mobility through local action'
Event Highlights |

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
Stronger Rural Areas, Connected rural areas (+5)
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Latest good practice

Rural Radicals: connecting urban creativity and rural regeneration
Case Study | 09 juin 2025

Rural Radicals: connecting urban creativity and rural regeneration

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Buildings, Research and innovation (+7) Finland, Italy (+3)
NGO incubator strengthens project management and financial capacities in rural Latvia
Methodology | 09 juin 2025

NGO incubator strengthens project management and financial capacities in rural Latvia

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Education and training, Entrepreneurship (+5) Latvia
Starlight project: opening new careers for rural youth through learnings about astronomy-based tourism
Project | 09 juin 2025

Starlight project: opening new careers for rural youth through learnings about astronomy-based tourism

  • Rural Pact
  • Rural Revitalisation Platform
Education and training, Youth (+6) Austria, Bulgaria (+4)
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