Ms. Olga Kefalogianni highlighted Greece’s initiatives for sustainable marine and coastal tourism, speaking astatine the opening ceremonial of the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas Exhibition, arsenic portion of the planetary Monaco Explorations initiative.
In her opening remarks, she highlighted the symbolism of the Mediterranean Missions action, a bid of missions to the Mediterranean that volition instrumentality spot from 2025 to 2030 successful assorted countries successful the region, which volition besides see a sojourn by Prince Albert II of Monaco. She noted that “our state and the Principality of Monaco stock not lone maritime traditions, but besides the work to support the Mediterranean.”
Referring to the value of the Mediterranean, she stressed that for centuries it has been “a cradle of civilizations, a span betwixt peoples and a crossroads of commercialized and exchange”.
The Minister made peculiar notation to the Observatory for Coastal and Marine Tourism successful the Eastern Mediterranean, which was established successful 2023 successful implementation of a memorandum of practice with the World Tourism Organization. Already, 12 countries person expressed involvement successful participating successful the initiative, which aims to systematically measurement and show the environmental, societal and economical impacts of coastal and marine tourism successful the region.
She besides highlighted the enactment of the European Union done the Recovery and Resilience Fund, which finances projects to upgrade marinas, make diving tourism and amended accessibility to coasts and beaches.
In closing, she stressed:
“Sustainability is not lone a responsibility. It is the way that ensures that Greece and the Mediterranean volition stay not lone apical tourer destinations, but besides models of liable management, wherever the environment, biodiversity and taste practice are protected for aboriginal generations."
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