2. Participants

The core partnership of the EEA ECOTRANS and Ramboll will be expanded in accordance with the open, participative approach built into the UN Type II Partnership framework. Key players are being invited to engage in specific roles to deliver the Action Programme, to avoid duplication of efforts, and save on time and resources. Hence the clustering of stakeholders and the tools for communication will aligned with the TLAs knowledge network principles described earlier.

DestiNet portal will involve four main groups:

1. ' Core Partners ' - individuals or organisation that subcribed to the UN Type II partneship agreement and accepted the terms set by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development of achieving pricise sets of objectives to contributes to the implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for further implementing Agenda 21, and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
2. ' Local Administrators ' - people or institutions who use the portal to carry out their daily work to expand and enhance their knowledge and that of other people working at the destinatin level. This group has username and password access to specific sections of the portal, create and manage content, quality check proposed postings by Contributors in their area of responsibility.
3. ' Contributors ' - people or institutions with access right privileges for uploading documents to specific sections of the portal. Contributors can edit, change, or delete their documents at all times. Contributors uploads are subject to approvals of the Local Administrator before they become publicly accessible on the web.
4. 'Users' or visitors of the website. This includes a wide range of tourism stakeholders who need information but do not use the site as a working area as done by the Core Partners, Local Administrators, and Contributors.

The potential Local Administrators of the knowledge network, include:

• European Commission Directorates
• 500 + tourism professionals working in or with the tourism sector
• Educational bodies dealing with ST
• Member States wishing to implement ST
• Regions and Destinations wishing to implement ST
• Product and Service Providers who wish to access the ST market place

Each administrative level works with a one point Portal that offers access to the entire European tourism value chain

Participants in DestiNET will be required to fill in this European knowledge grid through a series of top down bottom up capacity building process. A five year plan is in place to achieve European Coverage.

Classification Links to stakeholders for direct stakeholder contact