The Landscape of the Year regions should developed successful practices to implement and promote sustainability in tourism and raise its competitiveness. 

The project has the following main objectives:

 Ÿ improving the sustainability awareness and perfomance of small and

     micro enterprises in the regions

 Ÿ developing and testing of different practises and tools that can help 

     small and micro enterprises to be sustainable and competitive

 Ÿ exchange of results within the network

 Ÿ testing of the new sustainable tourism criteria developed by the

     Tourism Sustainability Group of DG Enterprise and Industry (EC)

Accommodation facilities, tour guides, tour operators and tourism offices will be involved and trained resulting in concrete model training tools which in turn can be used in different contexts.