Conseil Régional d'Aquitaine

Partner's Profile

Aquitaine is one of the French regions with the highest tourism concentration. Tourism accounts for 45000 jobs (4.7% of total employment in the region). Tourism groups many different economic activities such as accommodation, catering, leisure, information and many different tourism enterprises. For several years CRA has turned its attention towards the development of a sustainable tourism which includes respects for of citizens and heritage and which is, at the same time, both competitive and innovative.

Partner's experience in the field of sustainable tourism

The Conseil Régional d'Aquitaine owns a number of strategic research programmes which finance a innovation and research projects on: analysis of environmental impacts, creation of indicators of tourism impacts, creation of certification processes for tourism development projects, measurement of social and environmental impacts of tourism. CRA finance and will continue to finance research and innovation projects on tourism: development of public-private relations in tourism, increase of innovation for tourism firms, development of innovating technologies for reducing the impact of tourism on environment and quality of life's citizens, protection of environmental and cultural heritage.