Josep Rodríguez | Tourism Technical Office – DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA

Josep Rodríguez is an engineer with a degree in the Humanities and postgraduate studies in tourist destination management. He has more than 20 years of experience in the management of European and international projects and has focused on the tourism sector for the last four years. He is the Coordinator of the MED Community of Sustainable Tourism, a project funded by the European Interreg Med programme, which has 22 projects and over 200 organisations working on tourism sustainability in the Mediterranean.

Tools for thinning tourist density and promoting off-season tourism in the Mediterranean

The 22 projects that make up the MED Community of Sustainable Tourism work on three major thematic lines: the development of alternatives to sun and beach tourism based on the resources and potential of the Mediterranean, tourism impact management and improved tourist planning and governance. In this block of experiences, we will discuss three technological tools developed by three European Community projects focused on tourism flow management, gamification for breaking up tourist density and calculation of the ecological footprint in natural areas.