MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN

Rapport de l’Atelier sur le tourisme et le développement durable en Méditerranée
Antaly (Turquie), 17, 18 & 19 septembre 1998
Some sixty persons took part in the session, including experts especially from sixteen
Mediterranean countries, seven NGOs, four tour operator representatives in addition to
representatives from bodies coming under the United Nations (See Appendix 3).
The work programme (See Appendix 4) was organised as follows.
The first day in a plenary session was devoted to examining the challenges and stakes
arising from the good integration of tourism into sustainable development in the
Mediterranean. Sample policies, at various levels, allowed the importance of these
issues and the types of responses made to be illustrated.
At the end of the day, a site visit, organised by the Ministry for Tourism in Turkey took
participants to visit the tourist resort at Belek, designed in accordance with
environmental criteria (preservation of the coastline, treatment and re-use of sewage for
golf course irrigation, etc.).
Group work typified the second day, after an introductory plenary session at the start of
the morning. Since Mediterranean tourism is highly diversified and several situations
exist, each destination type has a different logic of actors, issues and range of possible
responses.
As a result, the first aim of the group work was to carry out, for each of these main types,
an analysis that identified current trends and foreseeable conflicts, problems and stakes,
in addition to the processes of change and actors involved. Case studies illustrating
these various situations were presented.
As a second stage, groups identified a few possible response items that public or private
actors could promote in favour of an improved integration of tourism into sustainable
development.
The last half-day allowed the results of the work of the groups to be presented and
discussed with initial workshop conclusions.
The present report is an account of all the workshop workings, session by session,
according to the availability of written contributions.
Results
All the work carried out, both in the preparatory stage and during the workshop, allowed
a summary report of the work group to be prepared (See Appendix 5) which was
presented during the fourth meeting of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable
Development (Monaco, 20th-22nd October 1998).
This report was made up of four sections:
1. Theme and working method: interest
2. Main aspects of the assessment
3. Objectives
4. Proposals for actions and recommendations
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