Cité de la Culture et du Tourisme Durable

Partner Profile

The CCTD is a Rural Pole of Excellence (PÔle d'Excellence Rurale - PER) under Public-Private management (Community of the Councils of Luberon, Durance, Verdon and the Association de préfiguration CCTD). The CCTD brings together a pole of multi-disciplinary expertise on training, observation, applied research and tourism development and the valorisation of cultures and heritages operating in networks.
The CCTD benefits from high performance equipment for seminars, research and training and is equipped with new technology and a documentation centre.

Partner's experience in the fieldof sustainable tourism

The Cité de la Culture et du Tourisme Durable (CCTD) is considered one of the major actors on sustainable tourism in its region. Created in 2005, CCTD's objective is to conduct networked research and training programmes on the development of sustainable tourism and the valorisation of heritage.
CCTD owns a number of strategic research programmes which finance of a number of research projects on: analysis of the socio-cultural and environmental impacts; Site management (operational implementation of the concept of capacities for tourism responsibility in the framework of the local AGENDA 21); creation of a process of certification of tourism development projects; study of social representation of tourist destinations and effects of their sustainable development; marketing of the "Sustainable destination" to bring added value to culture and material / immaterial heritage