PM4SD European Summer School

Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism is a High Level European Summer School to address one of the most important themes in the tourism industry: how to improve sustainable tourism projects success and monitor the benefits of funded initiatives.

The Summer School is for tourism leaders and destinations, project management practitioners, funders, policy makers, academics, students and entrepreneurs. The event promotes PM4SD™ as the methodology to apply for planning and implementing transformative tourism projects.

The 2017 edition is a 3-day event, co-organised by the Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism (FEST), the European Travel Commission (ETC), and the Sila National Park and addresses one of the key theme in sustainable tourism: crowd and visitor management.  Participants, after the 2 days meeting, will have the opportunity to discover the beauty of Sila National Park an Italian hidden gem with an outstanding landscape.

The Summer School will contribute to the 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development producing a call for action.

The 2017 Summer School aims to be:

1. A knowledge hub to share and transfer successful practices on sustainable tourism and crowd management
2. A training event for donors and implementers to plan and manage tourism funding with sustainability
3. A funding marketplace to develop joint funding proposals, developing concept notes and matching skill sets between professional project managers and organisations
4. A networking event to facilitate strategic alliances
5. A leading event to promote PM4SD™ as best management practice

Find the draft programme here below