Tender Results of European Commission, Directorate General For Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship And Smes Grow , Grow G 1 Tourism, Textiles

Creation of a code of conduct for online ratings and reviews for tourism accommodation.

The subject of this call for tenders is 'Supporting sustainability and resilience of EU tourism destinations' by offering technical assistance for tourism destinations in the EU, implementing actions related to sustainability and resilience of destinations, in line with the actions and objectives of the tourism transition pathway. The subject of this call for tenders is: i) to recognise key challenges, gather and develop sustainable tourism best practices, as well as raise awareness on the identified good practices; ii) technical assistance to destinations on improving their strategies and practices towards better sustainability and resilience by facilitating peer-to-peer twinning for EU tourism destinations.

Development of product environmental footprint category rules (PEFCRs) and acquisition of relevant environmental footprint (EF) compliant datasets for hotel accommodation sector. With this call for tenders, the European Commission aims to develop PEFCRs for the hotel accommodations (as defined by NACE classification, section 55.10), in order to enable the measurement of their environmental impacts by using the product environmental footprint (PEF) methodology. As a second objective of this call, the Commission aims to acquire the necessary EF compliant datasets for the above PEFCR. The call also aims to draw lessons in case PEFCRs are developed for other accommodation sub-sectors in the future. Finally, the entire process shall be undertaken with a close involvement of the relevant stakeholders.

The subject of this call for tenders is to contribute to fostering innovative, smart and sustainable solutions in tourism by destinations through the implementation of the European Capital of Smart Tourism action, which incorporates the former European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN) action, under the implementation of the 2022 Single Market work programme.