An important international conference on the management of visitable underwater cultural and natural heritage sites entitled “Dive in Blue Growth” will be held at the amphitheater of the Acropolis Museum in Athens on October 16-18, according to ANA.
The conference, held by the project BLUEMED with the support of the community Med Sustainable Tourism, is held under the auspices of President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos.
The coastal areas and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea rely on tourism and offer significant underwater natural and cultural goods, while their geomorphological features make them vulnerable to the repercussions of extreme climate conditions. These areas are facing a number of challenges, such as the lack of coordinated policies, methods and tools for the efficient support of sustainable economic growth, inefficient protection of underwater natural and cultural heritage and the inability to exploit it for sustainable tourism growth, as well as inadequate measures to address the repercussions of the climate crisis.
The project BLUEMED aims at the protection and preservation of submarine natural and cultural heritage in selected sites of the Mediterranean to help the coastal and insular economies to prosper by adopting a sustainable blue model for tourist growth while protecting the marine ecosystem.
Those interested in attending the conference can register at the website: https://bluemed.interreg-med.eu/index.php?id=9639.
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