Barcelona recognises companies committed to sustainability in the 8th edition of the Barcelona Sustainable Tourism Awards for Best Practices

The Barcelona Tourist Consortium’s Sustainable Tourism programme held the eighth edition of its Best Practices Awards, which recognise the efforts and dedication of companies in the tourism sector in regard to sustainability. The awards include four categories. The Social category was won by

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Catalonia seeks to consolidate itself as a benchmark food and wine destination in Europe with an investment of over 1.5 million euros

The Government of Catalonia has announced a significant investment of more than 1.5 million euros to promote wine and food tourism, with the aim of making Catalonia the leading region in this sector in Europe. This initiative is part of the Strategy for food and wine tourism in Catalonia 2022-2027,

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Catalan campsites celebrate the sector’s first conference with a focus on sustainable development, to commemorate their seventieth anniversary

The Catalan Federation of Campsites (FCC), in collaboration with the Directorate General of Tourism and Barcelona Provincial Council, organised the first conference of the sector at our site on 25 and 26 April. The gathering, which took place at the Vilanova Park campsite in Vilanova i la Geltr&uacu

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Mura, Pals, Ainsa, Sos del Rey Católico, Cudillero and Casares will compete for the 2024 UN Best Tourism Villages Award.

The villages of Mura (Barcelona), Pals (Girona), Ainsa (Huesca), Sos del Rey Católico (Zaragoza), Cudillero (Asturias) and Casares (Malaga) have been selected as the Spanish candidates to receive the Best Tourism Villages Award granted by UN Tourism. This has been decided by the Evaluation Co

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FiturNext launches an initiative to curb rural depopulation

FiturNext, FITUR’s observatory that recognises best practices in sustainable tourism, focused this year on projects that have revitalised local communities; seeing tourism as a way to fight depopulation. The awards ceremony also presented the “2024 Report: Towards local revitalisation t

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Barcelona is the European region with the highest number of tourist establishments certified as sustainable

Barcelona province leads the ranking of tourist establishments with sustainability certification according to the new Environmental Labels and Schemes indicator. This achievement has been reached after years of working to build a tourist community respectful of the environment and society, as demons

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