Tourism
A category news covering aspects of ports and tourism. This includes the development of tourism facilities – marinas, hotels and commercial facilities. Also includes aspects of the cruise ship industry.
Sète port launches public e-platform for new yachting project
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Sète port has launched a e-platform for local residents to learn and comment on the proposed project to...
Tourist agreement signed for ports of Bari, Brindisi, Manfredonia, Barletta and Monopoli
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – An agreement has been signed between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP...
Sicilian ports still showing low cruise passenger numbers
Catania, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – After fluctuating numbers last year, the Sicilian cruise industry is forecasting improved...
Puertos del Estado continues to invest in the local cruise industry
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – In 2017 Spanish ports exceed 9.2 million cruise passengers, a result of a long-standing commitment by the...
Local port support Douro region at BTL, at Portuguese tourism fair
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo (APDL – The Port Authority of...
Spain’s Baleària receives cruise quality seal for Dénia port
Dénia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. was distinguished on Friday with the Commitment of...
TOURISMED project meeting takes place in Cyprus
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 29, 2018 – The second TOURISMED project meeting is currently being held in Cyprus. The objective of TOURISMED is...
Ports Europe – Reference – TOURISMED – Fishing tourism for sustainable development in the Mediterranean area
TOURISMED – Fishing tourism for sustainable development in the Mediterranean area, January 2018 The project TOURISMED aims to develop a fishing tourism...
Valencia: CO-EVOLVE Project to foster Sustainable Maritime and Coastal tourism development
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – The 3rd Steering Committee of the CO-EVOLVE project (Promoting the co-evolution of human activities...
Tangier hosts International Days on Mediterranean marinas
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – The Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, Abdelkader Amara presided over the opening...
Call for protest day against cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Huge cruise ships deliver thousands day tourists to Venice, but many local citizens do not want visitors...
Las Palmas port president discusses tourism cooperation with Ivory Coast
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra, accompanied...
Gibraltar port represented at Monaco Yacht Show
Monaco (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Gibraltar Minister for Tourism, Gilbert Licudi, and the Port have attended the Monaco Yacht Show in order...
EU delegation visits port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – In September 2017, a delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism...
Cala del Forte: Monaco develops yachting capacity
Monte Carlo, Monaco (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – At the end of 2016 Société Monégasque Internationale Portuaire (SMIP– a subsidiary of...
Cypriot Minister cites ports as examples of international investment opportunities
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Cypriot Minister of Transport Marios Demetriades has opened the 2nd Cyprus International Investors...
Azores, Canary Islands to enhance port, air transport synergies
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The Azores and Canaries Islands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which,...
Dubrovnik wants to halve cruise visitors
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković has contacted the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA),...
Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report which assesses the impacts of cruise...