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Thursday, the 30th of March 2017 08.00 Transfer from Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace to FIBES Venue: FIBES Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Seville 08.30 – 09.00 MEMBERS REGISTRATION

09.00 – 13.00 MEMBERS SESSION Room: Itálica 09.00 – 09.30 OPENING

Welcome Speeches Andalusian Tourism Authorities NECSTouR Presidency

Approval of the Minutes of the NECSTouR Annual General Meeting 2016 Approval of the Agenda of NECSTouR Annual General Meeting 2017

VIDEO AGM 2016

09.30 MEMBERSHIP

Membership Report Membership Profile, Principles and Privileges Open dialogue: do the status reflect the reality of membership? Should the status be adjusted?

10.15 ACCOUNTS

Financial report 2016 Budget 2017

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10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00 2016 ACTIVITY REPORT & 2017 WORK PROGRAMME 2017

ACTIVITY REPORT 2016: o Video o Highlights o Website

WORK PROGRAMME 2017

11.20 EU FUNDS FOR TOURISM’S SESSION

2017 State of Play and proposals 2017 Opportunities through Strategic Alliances

o EU- Regional Tourism Investment Platforms, Christian Gsodam, Committee of the Regions (skype)

12.20 NECSTOUR PROJECTS HUB

2012 – 2018 NECSTouR Projects Evolution: past (2012 - 2016) – present (2017) – future (2018…) NECSTouR Projects Highlights, synergies with NECSTouR Working Groups

o Spirit Youth, Limburg o MITOMED +, Andalucía o Hiking Europe, Catalunya o Brandtour, Tuscany

12.40 NEXT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Proposal virtual AGM end of the year 2017 AGM 2018

12.50 ANY OTHER BUISNESS

Proposal of Memorandum of Understanding with CRPM 13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH and Membership ceremony 14.00 – 14.30 Welcome Coffee of afternoon speakers

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14.30 – 17.30 PARALEL THEMATIC WORKSHOPS 14.30 SMART DESTINATIONS Room: Bahía Moderator: Ulf Sonntag, Research Tourism Institute (NIT) 14.30 – 14.40 Introduction to the Smart Destination Working Group Objectives 14.40 – 15.15 Accessibility Action by Françoise Guaspare, Île-de-France Region Strategic Alliances: European Disability Forum (EDF)

o European Disability ACT o International standard on accessible tourism for all (ISO) o 2018: World Summit on Accessible Tourism o European Citizens Travel Card

15.15– 15.45 Environmental Sustainability Action by Olle Jonang, Vastra Gotaland Region Strategic Alliances: Susanne Heutling EC DG - ENV Sustainable Production, Products and Consumption, and Candela Vidal Joint Research Center - Seville

o Sustainable Certification: Ecolabel Tourism Accommodation 15.45 – 15.50 Wrap-up and Next steps

14.30 INDICATORS: MEASURING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL Room: Ronda Moderator: Nagore Espinosa, INROUTE 14.30 – 14.40 Benchmarking, presentation of challenges, proposal for actions and actors identified in the previous work carried out by members participating in the questionnaire 14.40 – 15-00 Group in-site identification of new proposals 15.00 – 15.25 Invited expert’s views and reply to proposals and actions

Karoly Kovacs, Chief of Statistics of International Trade in Services Section from United Nations Statistics Division,

Ms Clara van der Pool, Programme Officer. Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account. UNWTO Mr. Christophe Demunter, Eurostat E Unit G-3 Business cycle, tourism and registers & Task Force Big

Data (remote participation) Ms. Teodora Brand Mueller, Eurostat, Teamleader - Regional and Urban statistics Unit E-4: Regional

statistics and geographical information (remote participation) Mr. Antonio Massieu, Chair of INRouTe and former UNWTO director for Statistics and Tourism Satellite

Account

15.25 – 15.45 Open Debate 15.45 – 15-50 Conclusions and Summary of proposals and actors involved

15.50 – 16.10 COFFEE BREAK

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16.10 DIGITALISTION OF TOURISM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Room: Ronda 16.10 – 16.50 PART I: “THE SHARING ECONOMY: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF REGIONS” Moderator: Elena Lacasa, Tourism Department of the Catalonia Government

NECSTouR and the debate over the Collaborative Economy: The state of the art One Economy, Several Approaches: NECSTouR Good practices NECSTouR and the Debate on the Collaborative Economy: Future Steps Wrap-up and next steps

16.50 – 17.30 PART II: “SKILLS FOR GOING DIGITAL: THE REGIONAL GOOD PRACTICES” Moderator: Sonia Trampetti, CNR-IBIMET (skype)

NECSTouR developing skills for going digital: The state of the art NECSTouR Good practices Call for Partnership on Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation: Which Reply from he members of

NECSTouR? Presented by Françoise Guaspare, Île-de-France Europe

16.10 REGIONS DRIVING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE THROUGH TOURISM: WHAT TOOLS? Room: Bahía Moderator: Peter Janech, Regional Programme for Europe UNWTO Strategic Alliance: Anne Grady, European Commission DG EAC 16.10 - 16.15 Welcome and aim of this workshop, Jose Luis Maestro (Galicia) 16.15- 16.20 Introduction to the session by the moderator, Peter Janech (UNWTO) 16.20 – 16.45 How Gastronomy and Sport Events contribute to the intercultural Dialogue? 16.45 – 17.00 The Cities card versus the European cities card 17.00 – 17.10 Wrap up 17.10 – 17.30 The next tourism and intercultural dialogue 17.30 End of the workshop, Jose Luis Maestro (Galicia)

17.30 – 18.00 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEPS

Room: Itálica

18.00 Transfer from FIBES to Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace 18.00 – 19.30 FREETIME 19.30 Transfer from Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace to Real Alcázar

20.00 – 21.00 CULTURAL ACTIVITY 21.00 DINNER at REAL ALCÁZAR DE SEVILLA 23.00 Transfer from Real Alcázar to Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace

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Wednesday 29/03 at 21.00h NECSTouR Members Diner

Restaurant: La Raza (Avenida Isabel la Católica, 2) - at Member’s own expenses -