MARE NOSTRUM SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Raffaella Giordana, Rosita Di Peri

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Le tourisme comme secteur crucial de l'économie dans nombre de pays de la Méditerranée. Cet ouvrage analyse de ce secteur à partir de l'exemple des politiques de développement soutenable menées par l'ile grecque de Rhodes et la ville de Tyre au Liban.

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• Transport

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• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• EAN13: 9782296806146
• Langue: Français

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the European project Mare Nostrum. Special thanks goes to Carlo Alberto Garzonio and Giorgio Risicaris from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Department of Construction and Restoration (DiCR), the project leaders, for their excellent coordination and support during the planning stage.
We would also like to thank all partners and associates for their collaboration and support during the participatory planning missions thus contributing to the development of the project, these include: the Municipality of Rhodes, Old Town Office (Greece), The House of Europe in Rhodes (Greece), University of the Aegean, Laboratory of Tourism Research and Studies (ETEM) (Greece), the Municipality of Tyre (Lebanon), USJ/Université Saint Joseph, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines & University of Balamand / MAJAL, Academic Laboratory for Construction and Reconstruction (Lebanon). We are particularly grateful to Liliane Buccianti - Barakat and Andreas Papatheodorou for the preface and for supporting this work.
Special thanks must go to Fabrizio Fuccello DiCR, Mare Nostrum Scientific Advisor, without whom the project Mare Nostrum would not have been realised. Without his active support and his Mediterranean ‘perspective’ the missions in Rhodes and Tyre would have been nowhere near as successful. A special acknowledgment goes to the working group which has carried out its duties with enthusiasm and competence Isabelle Toussaint, Emanuela Galetto and Matteo Robiglio from the Avventura Urbana Ltd.
Obviously, special thanks to all the people who were interviewed and finally thanks to Kamilah Khatib for her patient support and assistance.
Rosita Di Peri, Raffaella Giordana
(edited by)


MARE NOSTRUM
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
A Case of Participatory Approach in Rhodes and Tyre




Euromed Heritage IV Project. EH4 MN150-825


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Mare Nostrum coordinator:
- Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento Costruzioni e Restauro (DiCR), Sezione di Restauro (Italy).

Mare Nostrum partners:
- Rhodes Municipality, Old Town Office (Greece)
- Tyre Municipality (Lebanon)
- Université Saint-Joseph (USJ), Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines & University of Balamand/MAJAL, Academic Laboratory for Construction and Reconstruction (Lebanon)
- Paralleli, Istituto Euromediterraneo del Nord Ovest (Italia)

Mare Nostrum associates:
- DELARPA, Développement de l’Artisanat et du Patrimoine (Tunisie)
- University of the Aegean, Laboratory of Tourism Research and Studies (ETEM) (Greece)
- The House of Europe in Rhodes (Greece)
- Associazione Culturale Samotracia (Italia)
- Integrated Heritage Management IHM (Malta)


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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. Waterfront, info points, water
Figure 2. Walls, cultural heritage, bike sharing
Figure 3. Information point position
Figure 4. Linking the waterfronts areas
Figure 5. Increase underwater tourist usage
Figure 6. Enlarge the tourist experience of Tyre
Figure 7. Multicultural and multi-faith Tyre
LIST OF ANNEXES
1. Interview question (mapping the needs)
2. In depth Interviews in Rhodes (mapping the needs)
3. In depth Interviews in Tyre and Saida (mapping the needs)
4. List of participants to the Focus Group 1 (Rhodes)
5. List of participants to the Focus Group 2 (Rhodes)
6. List of participants to the Focus Group 1 (Tyre)
7. List of participants to the Focus Group 2 (Tyre)
List of Contributors
L ILIANE B UCCIANTI -B ARAKAT holds a PhD in Urban Geography, and is specialised in tourism and heritage. She is a member of the following bodies: Urban Commission of IGU/UIG, IPEMED, AEFM and the Arab Tourism Association. She is the Coordinator of the Scientific Research Committee, a FLSH representative, and head of the Cultural and Tourism Management programme in the Department of Geography of Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. She is the editor in chief of the journal Géosphères, based in the faculty of Classics and Humanities of the same university.
R OSITA D I P ERI teaches Institutions, Politics and Society of the Middle East at the University of Turin. She conducts research in the Department of Political Studies on democracy and authoritarianism in the Arab world. She is the author of numerous scientific papers and of a book entitled Il Libano contemporaneo. Storia, politica, società (Carocci, Rome 2009). She is in charge of’Culture’at Paralleli - Euro-Mediterranean Institute of the North West.
E MANUELA G ALETTO holds a Bachelor degree in Modern Literature and Anthropology. Since 2007 she works with Avventura Urbana Ltd. as Project Coordinator in the communication department. She is also the Project Manager for several EU funded programmes.
R AFFAELLA G IORDANA is in charge of ‘Tourism’ at Paralleli - Euro-Mediterranean Institute of the North West. She is the coordinator of the Institute for European project Mare Nostrum and other regional projects related to the themes of tourism and sustainability in the Mediterranean. She graduated in International Relations at the University of Turin, and she has spent several years collaborating with organisations and networks involved in tourism at the national and international levels.
A NDREAS P APATHEODOROU is Assistant Professor in Industrial Economics with emphasis on Tourism at the School of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, Greece. He is also an External Examiner at Cranfield University and University of Hertfordshire. He gained a MPhil in Economics and a DPhil in Geography at the University of Oxford and commenced his academic career at the University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of the UK Tourism Society and is a board member of the Hellenic Aviation Society.
M ATTEO R OBIGLIO co-founder in 1992 of Avventura Urbana Ltd., the first and main Italian agency specialising in community planning and architecture, where he is responsible for the design team. He is Professor in Architectural and Urban design at the Department of Architectural and Industrial Design (DIPRADI) and member of the board of the Doctorate programme in Architecture of Turin Polytechnic.
I SABELLE T OUSSAINT is an architect and expert in participatory planning, who has been a partner and manager at Avventura Urbana Ltd. since 1998. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture and a Master degree in Conservation of historic towns and buildings at the Katholieke Universiteit di Leuven (Belgium) and a Master degree in Architecture and Technologies in developing Countries (Polytechnic of Turin). From 2007 until 2010 she has been a consultant for communication in participatory planning for the Agence Nationale pour la Rénovation Urbaine (ANRU).
Preface
Liliane Buccianti-Barakat


The Mediterranean is both a ‘border’ which divides and a ‘bridge’ which unites Europe, Asia and Africa.
The Mediterranean Region is crucial to understanding the origins and the development of many modern societies. The sea has had a major influence on the history and ways of life of these cultures. It provided a means of trade, colonisation and war, and was the basis of life (via fishing and the gathering of other seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages.
The Phoenicians were earth’s first-known sailors and explorers. Their cities surrounded the entire Mediterranean Sea, a region they came to dominate peacefully.
Considered the world’s Cradles of Civilization, the Mediterranean Sea has been known by a number of names throughout human history. For example the Romans commonly called it Mare Nostrum (Latin, ‘Our Sea’).
The Mediterranean Region is today a leading tourist destination, focused primarily around seaside summer holidays.
Many historic port-cities have in recent decades undertaken redevelopment towards new post-industrial uses centred around meeting the new demands of tourism. Such uses offer the potential for creating more sustainable and effective cities but equally they may lead to problems such as the erosion of heritage, and decreased quality of life through congestion and pollution.
Overcoming such issues is crucial to the future of many Mediterranean port cities, since increasing pressures for new tourist sites in the region are exacerbating long-standing conflicts between economic development and the preservation of local culture in many cities.
Tourism, Phoenician trade routes and preservation of both built heritage and local culture by local authorities in 6 port-cities are the main focuses of the proj