NECSTouR Summit in Kotka, Finland

The NECSTouR summit brings together European regions, DMOs and partners to shape the future of tourism. It focuses on practical solutions for sustainable and regenerative tourism, strengthening regional resilience, improving destination management through cooperation, and building skills and partnerships for a changing operating environment.

This event is aimed at bringing together policymakers, destination managers, sustainability experts, and regional innovators, municipalities, tourism experts as well as regional and national level DMOs.

Interreg BSR RegenT will provide one of the three workshops at the event:

The Baltic Perspective on Regenerative Tourism - from principles to strategic and practical action for destinations:

This session explores how destinations in the Baltic Sea Region are moving from sustainable tourism towards regenerative tourism – an approach that goes beyond reducing harm to actively strengthening local communities, ecosystems and place identity.

The Baltic context offers a particularly relevant perspective: many destinations are characterised by sensitive natural environments, strong local cultures, dispersed tourism structures, and collaboration opportunities between public authorities, DMOs, SMEs and communities. These conditions have driven practical, place-based solutions that are highly transferable to other European regions.