European Fish Tourism Festival

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The project proposal aims to develop an innovative transnational thematic tourism product (European Fish Tourism Festival-EFTF) focused on European fishing traditions and related cultural costal communities.The common format of the touristic product will be extremely important to promote local SMEs and strength their competitiveness, exploiting synergies between tourism and CCIs.The EFTF will contribute to diversify and increase the visibility of Europe’s transnational fishing tourism offer.The fish tourism thematic product can become a great pillar for new jobs, social inclusion and the revival of the communities who depend on this sector.The diversification of traditional activities, including fishing tourism becomes inevitable to support the re-launch of fishing communities and offering to final users a great attractive potential in a common transnational framework. The EFTF will enhance visitor’s travel experiences, gathering in a common format a wide range of touristic facilities connected to european costal landscapes, fishing culture and cooking traditions.The EFTF will be organized in all project countries in order to create a unique European fish tourism week.CCIs will have an important role through the organization of local conferences, fishing excursions, music shows, exhibitions, food tasting experiences and interactive internet digital media.The objective is to use innovative and creative methods to increase awareness of locals and visitors about proper nutrition, respect and protection of marine and coastal resources and historical identity of local fishing communities. In this way, the fisherman can highlight aspects of the artisanal fishing culture and traditions that often, are not adequately valued and can spread the knowledge of his professional activity, saving the environmental,social and cultural resources.The main project activities are:mapping of fish-tourism locations,development of EFTF common format;promotion and communication actions.