Brussels – Tomorrow, Patrizia Modica, professor in the Department of Economics, Law and Policy, will speak at a EU Commission conference in Brussels on “Managing and Promoting Sustainable and Accessible Tourism Destinations”, with a speech on “Destinations that have made continuous improvements during the ETIS implementation”. The center of the speech will be the experience in South Sardinia and the “Visit South Sardinia” project, which involved the municipalities of Cagliari, Domus De Maria, Muravera, Pula, Villasimius, from 2013 to this day. The goal of the project is to monitor the continuous improvement in the correct measurement of the impact of tourism on the environment, the economy and the community. In her speech, Modica will highlight the key role of the University in the dissemination among public and private stakeholders of the sustainability and accessibility culture. “Visit South Sardinia” saw the participation of the Economic and Business Sciences Department in the pilot testing phase of the ETIS system (European Tourism Indicator System), which monitored some 200 destinations across Europe. The project also involved the University of Milan Bicocca and LouiseTwining-Ward, President of Sustainable Travel International, based in New York USA as well as international assessor of sustainability, Emi Kaiwa PhD, Tourism Advisor at Oriental Consultants Co. Ltd. in Tokyo. (9Colonne)
