I newly joined the European Ecotourism Network and to start I'd like to share my master thesis dealing with the place of biodiversity in territories' tourism development. I focused on how we can see biodiversity as an asset and not (as it's often the case) as a constraint for tourism development, thinking that if local players see biodiversity as an asset for themselves and their activity they'll…

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Service design thinking  brings a very interesting perspective to ecotourism services design. In August 2012 a conference was held in Innsbruck (Austria). In its website http://www.servicedesigntourism.com/conference/index.php?site=home further information about what design thinking is (a free downlable ebook  is offered), as well as case studies. Presentations are at slideshare.net (search for SDT2012).

There was a seminar held last week in Brussels, where was presented the European Tourism Indicator System for the Sustainable Development of Destinations. ETIS is a locally-owned and led process for monitoring, managing, and enhancing the…