Submerged natural and cultural heritage and sustainable management of recreational diving
This project takes on the challenge of strengthening, improving, increasing and innovating recreational diving management. It aims for sustainability, cross-border integration and the consolidation of tools for monitoring, preserving and enhancing the underwater natural and cultural heritage. The project aims to create a cross-border network of underwater pilot sites with high natural and cultural interest; they will be managed and enjoyed sustainably and valued from a tourism point of view. The general objective is to implement a shared cross-border strategy for the management of underwater tours with high natural and cultural value for recreational purposes. All operations will involve economic and tourist actors and improved physical and virtual site accessibility. The results will be as follows: 1. Improved knowledge of the values of underwater sites and assessment and enhancement tools in the cross-border area. 2. Cross-border action plan for sustainable management and use of underwater natural and cultural heritage and tours. 3. Improved management of underwater sites with natural and cultural interest in the cross-border cooperation area. A shared approach will remedy the fragmentation of individual actions by site managers, which can only be effective within a cross-border context. The project is innovative because it proposes management and development systems that make use of the most advanced multimedia information technologies and address the issue of using natural and cultural heritage in an inter-regional manner.