In you theme formats support tourism alongside sun-sea tourism, in the promotion of modern tourism products and accommodations (new and existing) high quality and the balance between classic and emerging tourism models (such as shared tourism and tourist accommodation) are targeted, among others, by the New Special Spatial Framework for Tourism which was put out for public consultation yesterday (until September 15) together with the strategic environmental impact study.
The New Special Spatial Framework for Tourism fills the void created in regional planning after the cancellation by the Council of State (StE) of the previous Tourism PSE of 2009 and 2013.
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Tourism: new spatial framework
Furthermore, the new spatial framework for tourism, as announced, also aims at the interconnections between different forms of tourism based on the concept of complex tourist experience and the multiplicity of tourist resources (natural, cultural, etc.).
It also aims to reduce inter-regional and intra-regional disparities in tourism development and the extension of the tourist season, by exploiting the comparative advantages of different regions, but also the spatial organization of tourism, with the axes of strengthening organized forms of location, innovation in the tourist product, expansion of the tourist season, integrated destination management, treatment of overtourism phenomena, by appropriately exploiting the particularity of the inhomogeneity of the national space.
With the New Spatial Framework for Tourism, there is also an attempt to simplify zoning procedures and coordinate all levels of planning that affect tourism, as well as adapt tourism to new climate change data.
Categorization
With the planning promoted, there is a categorization of the national space based on:
a) The spatial structure of the tourist phenomenon.
(b) The particular geographical characteristics and the special status of certain areas.
(c) The location of particular forms of tourism and tourist infrastructure.
The categorization concerns 1,034 municipal units, while rural tourism, sports tourism, marine tourism, cultural tourism, religious pilgrimage tourism, congress tourism and health tourism are mentioned as particular forms of tourism.
According to what has been made known by the Ministries of Environment and Energy and Tourism, together with the EPA, guidance is given for the underlying spatial and urban planning.
It is also possible that the Regional Territorial Frameworks and Level 1 urban planning (Local urban plans, Specific urban plans, etc.) specify the regulatory guidelines of this APE at the level of an administrative sub-unit or part of it, provided that this results from the elements of the analysis at the level of the scale of the corresponding plan.
At the same time, proposals are included for necessary supporting infrastructure, such as transport infrastructure, entry points, water supply, liquid and solid waste management, energy, telecommunications and health infrastructure.