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About
the Sustourex project
The aim of Sustourex is to raise the competitiveness and sustainability of existing local tourism businesses by identifying viable cost-saving opportunities and enabling the implementation of best environmental practice, techniques and technologies. It also helps them to promote their achievements in order to win new business within the fast growing market of environmentally conscious tourist visitors.
A further aim of the project is to create local networks of participating local tourism businesses through which the awareness of environmental issues will be raised and support provided to enable members to improve their environmental performance.
Benefits include:
- saving money through energy efficiency and waste reduction
- winning business through effective marketing to the green tourism sector
- opportunities for networking and finding more cost effective suppliers
- improved customer loyalty and recognition through the Green Tourism Awards
Sustourex
will operate in the Fully Eligible Area (FEA) eligible wards of Lancaster,
Preston, West Lancashire and Wyre until April 2007. Between 2004 and 2006,
it also operated in the Transitional Area (TA) eligible wards of Chorley,
Lancaster, West Lancashire and Wyre but this element of th eproject has
now ended. Blackpool is excluded from the FEA because a similar project
- the Blackpool Blue Sky Resort Network (BSRN) project - assists tourism
businesses in this area. Both projects are featured on the Green
Tourism Awards website.
To check your eligibility, enter your postcode in the free checker on the Objective 2 website.
The area covered by the project takes in the recognised resorts and coastal attractions of Morecambe and Fleetwood; includes the outstanding countryside of the Forest of Bowland, and the Vale of Lune; and also heritage sites such as the City of Lancaster.
For further information, please contact us.
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2007.