Κατασκευή, Τουριστική Υποδομή και Περιβάλλον Construction, Touristic infrastructure & environment

1. Κατασκευή, Τουριστική Υποδομή και ΠεριβάλλονConstruction, Touristic infrastructure & environment Mr Harry Coccossis General Secretary G.N.T.O

2. Tourism in Greece • 13.000.000 arrivals of foreigners every year • 17 % του Α.Ε.Π • 800.000 jobs or 16% of the total employment • 630.000 beds in 330.000 rooms belonging to 8.500 hotel units • 30.000 camping spaces • And 600.000 bed in bnb

3. Effects of tourism on the destination place 4 different dimensions: • Natural environment • Natural ecosystems • Natural resources (ground, flora, fauna, etc) • Structured environment • Architectural heritage • Structure, operation, dynamics of human settlements • Social environment (ethics, customs, institutions) • Economic environment • Local, regional, national scale

4. Positive Repercussions • Economic growth • Creation of posts • Multiplicative results in other sectors • Contribution in the upgrade natural and cultural resources • Via work and policy of appointment of resources • Via private initiatives for the upgrade of traditional residences andthe protection of environment • Improvement of quality of life because work of infrastructure

5. Negative Repercussions(1) • Competition of economic activities - danger of monoculture • Competition in the uses of ground • Danger of devalorisation cultural and natural heritage • Territorial concentration: over-concentration/ saturation and dissemination • Problems of growth, operation and management of tourist regions

6. Negative Repercussions(2) • Overcharge in the technical or tourist infrastructures (tax ofnetworks and recipients) • Alteration of landscape and cultural tradition with the admission ofnew elements in the local system: authentism and devising

7. Strategy of Viable Growth Economic effectiveness Competitiveness and growth in the region Viable growth Social justice Diffusion of utilities of - cost - opportunities Environmental protection Appointment and safeguarding cultural andnatural heritage

8. Actions of viable growth: • In the type of tourism • Better management of mass tourism • Nationally and regional land-planning drawings for the completedmanagement coastal and mountainous regions • In the behavior of tourists • Improvement of environmental sensitivity • Dissemination of time of interruptions • Differentiation of types of tourism • In the quality of tourist infrastructures • Promotion of new forms of tourism • Careful choice of lodgings • Improvement of environmental sensitivity of local society and servicesof tourism

9. Planning for tourism National and international tourist markets Tourist resources and activities Transport Lodgings Natural, cultural and socio-economic environment Further infrastructure Institutional frame Other tourist services Use of tourist resources and installations by the permanent residents Πηγή : Tourism Planning: An Intergated and Sustainable Development Approach, 1991

10. Topics for Greece • Seasonal working • The mass tourist demand focused in concrete regions • Overexploitation or abandonment of natural resources because of intense pressures (agriculture, tourism, homing) • Exhaustion and devalorisation of ydatjkw'n resources • Loss of natural ecotopes • Devalorisation of land ecosystems • Loss of rural extents • Disorder in urbanisation • Devalorisation of landscape • Erosion of ground - desertation

11. Strategy for Tourism • Νew institutional / organisational frame • Ministry of Tourism Development • Greek National Tourism Organisation – GNTO - HTP • Νew Law • Strategy • Tourism in the frame of strategy for Viable Growth • Objective • Qualitative upgrade of tourist product • Enlargement and enrichment of tourist product • Μethodology • Configuration of 10 year strategic plan • Developmental Law • Growth of special forms of tourism • Promotion and projection

12. Quality Upgrade • Priority: • Growth of tourism for the needs of modern individual • Support of investments of high quality: • Hotels of luxury and resorts • Athletic tourism • House - tourism • Exhibition and congress installations • Thalassotherapy, spa etc.

13. Expansion and Enrichment • Sighteeing extended futher than the classic model “sun and sea” • Activities throughout all year • Axes for the growth of special forms of tourism • Health tourism-thalassotherapy-health-beauty • Cultural and urban tourism – congress and exihibition tourism, city breaks... • Ecotourism – tourism in the nature... • Marine tourism, scuba, sailing…

14. Development Law- Priorities • Enlargement of spectrum of tourism enterprises that depends in the Developmental Law • Establishment of motives for modernisation, change of use or even withdrawl of tourist units • Configuration of motives adapted in the local destinations with accent in islander and moutainous regions • Facilitation of big investments with the constitution of interministerial committee • Improvement and simplification of administrative processes of approval of private investments and withdrawing the disincentives

15. Summary • Greece has rich and varied cultural and natural background ideal for the growth of multiform tourist growth • The tourist policy should specialise itself in the particularities of tourist destinations • Important factor of success constitutes the growth of tourist infrastructures with main protractor the viable growth in national, regional and local level • The policy for the tourism is immediately interwoven with a policy for viable growth that has territorial dimension • The problems are to a large extent emanation of institutional frame and its insufficient application