Replication Toolkit

 

Are you a tourist destination or a tourism industry willing to improve its sustainability and circularity?

The INCIRCLE project offers the right tools to improve your territory in a circular and sustainable way!

 

The Interreg MED INCIRCLE (https://incircle.interreg-med.eu/) project, which started at the end of 2019, has developed and tested a "toolkit" of tools for the transformation of the tourism sector according to the principles of the circular economy, declined on 4 "pillars": waste management, water management, sustainable mobility and renewable energy sources.

INCIRCLE is currently in the replication phase, during which it is supporting 6 territories in developing, also with a view to recovering from the pandemic crisis, a circular tourism strategy that puts at the center the protection of resources and the environment but also local stakeholders, involved in a dedicated participatory process (Attica Islands Regional Unit (GR), Tourist board of Split-Dalmatia county (HR), National Park Delta de l’Ebre (ES), LAG Terra Barocca, Sicily (IT), Begueda’s County Development Agency (ES), Consorzio Oltrepò Mantovano (IT)).

The toolkit, including tools and methodologies developed by the project which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page, is composed as follows:

    • Operational Model Toolkit
    • Participatory Process Toolkit
    • Strategy Evaluation Toolkit
    • Summary of Strategies
    • Summary of Circularity Indicators
    • Policy Brief

 

 

Operational Model Toolkit
The main aim of the deliverable is to offer a framework for incorporating the critical sustainability and circularity aspects during all the phases of the policy-making. The INCIRCLE Operational Model Toolkit will guide and support MED policy and decision makers in the development of integrated regional and national strategies toward a more circular tourism, aiming at reducing tourist negative impact on destinations’ environmental capital and at preserving natural finite resources.
Circular Economy
Circular Tourism
Strategy Framework
Circular Principles
Area Science Park Trieste Italy
Anja Starec
anja.starec@areasciencepark.it
Fabrizia Salvi
fabrizia.salvi@areasciencepark.it
Participatory Processes Toolkit
The concept of participation is central in INCIRCLE, which activities are based on the involvement of stakeholders through the set-up, activation and consultation of Stakeholders Working Groups (SWGs). The SWG is acknowledged as an interdisciplinary working team made up of organisations and individuals involved and interested in all aspects of tourism. The SWG will help to establish the sector priorities and to tailor the policies to the needs and peculiarities of the territory, according to the principles of circular economy.
SWG
Capacity Building
Challenges
Visions
Ideas
Area Science Park Trieste Italy
Anja Starec
anja.starec@areasciencepark.it
Fabrizia Salvi
fabrizia.salvi@areasciencepark.it
Strategy Evaluation Toolkit
This report offers an evaluation assessment framework, that will be used to test all the created strategies’ correspondence to the circular principles set in the INCIRCLE model. The framework utilises different metrics and measures to test the circularity of such proposed strategies. The INCIRCLE Evaluation Pack has the transferability potential to be used and applied to different tourism areas, outside the remit of the INCIRCLE Project.
Assessment Framework
Template
Circular Principles
Circular Indicators
Energy and Water Agency Malta
Manuel Sapiano
manuel.sapiano@gov.mt
Julia Bonello
julia.bonello@gov.mt
Summary of strategies
This document presents the evaluation findings of five proposed circular tourism strategies developed for Albania, Balearic Islands, Crete, Cyprus, and Malta. The strategies focus on the INCIRCLE pillars, including water and waste management, efficient energy use and sustainable mobility and the management of cross-cutting issues within the tourism sector.
Sustainable tourism
Circular tourism strategy
Energy and Water Agency Malta
Manuel Sapiano
manuel.sapiano@gov.mt
Julia Bonello
julia.bonello@gov.mt
Summary of Circularity Indicators
The documents provide a comprehensive overview about the set of Circular Tourism Tools, developed by the Institute of Management of School of Advanced Studies – Pisa with the main goal to support the circular assessment of tourism sector and to provide useful information for their transition toward a more sustainable and circular tourism offer. The Circular Tourism Tools are a management and monitoring tools to assess tourism impact both on a destination level (Circular Tourism Destination Tool) and on a tourism industry level (Circular Tourism Industry Tool) from a circular economy (CE) perspective. The tool includes the guidelines and the templete for the circularity assessment carried out by applying the Circular Tourism Destination Tool.
Circular Indicators
Tourism Destination
Tourism Industry
Guidelines
Institute of Management of School of Advanced Studies Pisa Italy
Serena Carlesi
serena.carlesi@santannapisa.it
Tiziano Marradi
tiziano.marradi@santannapisa.it
Incircle Policy Brief
Based on the experience of the Incircle project, this Policy Brief presents the lesson learned in terms of the application of circular principles in the tourism sector to support and guide Mediterranean policymakers in the transition towards a circular tourism. In addition, an insight into the 242 measures foreseen in the 11 strategies is made available.
Policy Brief
Recommendations
Circular tourism strategy
Circular Economy
Area Science Park Trieste Italy
Anja Starec
anja.starec@areasciencepark.it
Andrea Bincoletto
andrea.bincoletto@areasciencepark.it

Do you want to know more?

Do you need assistance to better understand what the INCIRCLE methodology is about and how it can be of help for you?

You can contact:

  • MEDCITIES (Spain), the coordinator of INCIRCLE replication phase
  • Area Science Park (Italy), INCIRCLE Lead Partner
  • One of the other INCIRCLE technical partners:
    • Albanian Institute of Transport (Albania)
    • Anetel (Cyprus)
    • Civinet (Greece)
    • Energy and Water Agency (Malta)
    • Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)

You will find all the contact information in the “Contact us” section of the Knowledge Platform.