Tourism and sustainability in the Mediterranean: key facts and trends

This working document starts with a general overview on tourism activities, products, and destinations in the Mediterranean, providing with recent data analysis. In addition, tourism impacts are clustered following environmental, economic, social and cultural components in order to sort the priority issues and challenges the tourism products and destinations face in terms of sustainability.

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28/07/26

Plan Bleu Publishes a New Report to Strengthen the Resilience of Mediterranean Aquaculture to Climate Change

Plan Bleu has published its new report « Spotlighting Adaptation Solutions to Enhance the Resilience of Mediterranean Aquaculture to Climate Change », developed as part

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16/06/26

Mediterranean Tourism Facing Climate Change: Towards a Redefinition of the Tourism Model

The Mediterranean, which welcomes nearly 400 million international tourists annually, is warming 20% faster than the global average, exposing the sector to a dual vulnerability:

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16/06/26

From Knowledge to Action: Towards Sustainable Tourism Governance in the Pelagos Sanctuary

The intensification of tourism activities along the Mediterranean coastline and the growing impacts of climate change demand that we move past sector-specific approaches to build

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