Objectives
The primary objective the Park set itself by subscribing to the ECST was to work together with local stakeholders towards more sustainable tourism development in the area, taking account of the environmental, social and economic impacts which tourism can generate and at the same time considering the needs of visitors (current and potential), businesses, the environment and local residents. This type of policy required consolidation of the Park's role as an active participant in local tourism policy and development of forms of cooperation and co-planning between the parties involved. To define its policy, the Park committed itself to achieving the following objectives:
- to identify the stakeholders and survey the local resources according to the logic of the tourism sector
- to define tourists and visitors to the Park according to their behaviour, lifestyles and spending power
- to verify that the Park's tourism offer was in harmony with the main principles of the Charter
- to promote forms of co-planning and partnership between the various socioeconomic stakeholders active in the Park area, in harmony with the principles of the European Charter
- to identify five-year development guidelines for sustainable tourism, an action programme and the procedure to follow
- to indicate potential sources of financing at local, regional, national and European Community level
- to prepare a communications tool to make the policy adopted by the Park accessible to and supported by stakeholders and to play a role in internal and external marketing