cross-border outdoor course
"This project is part of the plan MITO" : This project aims to improve the attractivity of sportive itineraries thorough the identification of main biking, walking and hors-riding paths within ALCOTRA’s territory and bettering them thorough new infrastructures and sportive equipment. The constitution of this cross-border network, promote besides seasonal adjustment of the touristic offer and diffusion of sustainable tourism in most remoted areas of these territories, the development of cultural and eno-gastronomic sector, completing the offer of the territory either for a new typology of tourists looking for a more naturalistic and sustainable approach, than for the benefice of local inhabitants on the whole ALCOTRA’s territory.

This plan involves 5 Regions and almost all the NUTS III’s eligible areas. Italian and French partners are fronting an important challenge: creating an international market of outdoor tourism in ALCOTRA’s space. From a touristic point of view, this territory includes two poles north-south really famous, which are attracting international tourism: the Mont Blanc and the French Riviera. The territory between these two others has a wonderful natural heritage and an unmatched variety of landscapes. Outdoor activities are developed yet, but some of them known only at a local level, and the ones open to European markets are especially related to ski and winter tourism. The analyse of these problems purposed by the Plan shows that the outdoor products of ALCOTRA’s space is lowly organized, visible and readable by public. The 4 projects composing the PITEM’s strategy use the following schema: creating conditions to harmonize information’s on outdoor offer and make them interoperable, qualify touristic products thanks to formation of operators, realise needed infrastructures, test utilisation solutions of natural spaces in a logic of environment supervision, capitalize service management experiences and the promotion on both sides of the border. The goal is to promote continuity, renewing and outdoor sports users satisfaction thorough a clearest, safer, offer contributing to touristic offer diversification and seasonal adjustment.