Good practice Examples

As the Tourism Learning Area concept is very new, it is difficult to find exact models of the approach in reality. Scale and subject matter differ between each implementation scenario, and the vision of what to do held by one set of stakeholders in one part of Europe may not be the same as the vision other stakeholders have else where.

However, there are several examples of good practice of setting up Innovative Regions, Learning Regions and other Life Long Learning projects, which can act as clear guidance for partnership, coordination and IT development strategies. Furthermore, in the course of the research of this handbook, eight provisional Learning Areas were established, each of which contains valuable experience of how to establish the process on the ground. Finally, there are several good practice examples which refer to the various stages of setting up a Tourism Learning Area.

It is important to know what good practice examples of setting up networks in themes that are congruent with the Tourism Learning Area Approach. These examples shown here demonstrate good practice in the art of setting up multi-stakeholder inter-sectoral partnerships and cooperation projects. This type of activity is at the heart of a Tourism Learning Area's development, and consequently much is to be gained from understanding how these examples have come into existence.