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PAGE • Basing local development on biodiversity protection • Practical solutions to make tourism more sustainable and profitable • Promote ecotourism at an institutional, private, and public level • Improve innovation, sustainability, quality of local tourism offers • Training opportunities for local communities • Utilizing new digital technologies • All projects and activities are transferable to other territories and other institutions are always welcome to join the association Innovativeness • Collaborative space and common Strategic Plan to boost ecotourism • Developed projects connecting digitalisation with nature conservation: • iCairn Project: web 3.0 and app for virtual signage and landscape interpretation through augmented reality and geo-location www.icairn.org • Marine Custody and Biodiversity Project: app for cataloguing biodiversity by geo-referenced photos to feed the Biodiversity Data Bank of the Generalitat Valenciana www.icairn.org/custodia-Marina • A TU RITMO: interactive communication point technology for downloading information to mobile devices about trails and itineraries in Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve (Cáceres) • Ecotourism Payback Experience: first private portal for the promotion of Ecotourism in Spain including new income payback system from tourism to biodiversity conservation www.soyecoturista.com • Established conventions and agreements to support cooperation projects such as "National Parks as Sustainable Tourism Destinations" coordinated by AIDER La Gomera and financed by the National Rural Network Supporting material • https://soyecoturista.com/ • https://ecotouristinspain.com/ • https://fundacionglobalnature.org/ • https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/desarrollo-rural/publicaciones/publicaciones-dedesarrollo-rural/Manual_BBPP_turismorural_tcm30-131191.pdf

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