Open Platform for Data Collection and Sharing Indicators

The MITOMED+ project is based on the observation and monitoring of tourism data indicators to measure the sustainability of tourism activities. This project developed a system of indicators, a best practice transfer manual and an open, online data gathering platform to help policy makers monitor the social and environmental impacts of maritime and coastal tourism. The platform enables registered users to manage destination data, edit and upload indicators and access dashboards that allow comparative analyses, temporal evolution and ranking of destinations to strengthen evidence-based decision-making for sustainable coastal management.

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Implementation

The implementation of the MITOMED+ platform was not only an opportunity to improve strategies and policy planning for responsible and sustainable M&C tourism at local level, but also a very powerful tool that enables benchmarking against other destinations currently participating in the platform. Some of the local advantages of this platform tool for destinations are the easy and intuitive Web form used to enter data, visualization of the methodological sheet, benchmarking and dashboards to help informed decision making, the extraction of results in different formats (Excel, pdf, csv, etc.) and the existence of a communication tool. In addition, the platform facilitates data management through features such as uploading indicator values directly from Excel templates and accessing dashboard views, which further strengthen its role as a practical decision-support system.

Replicability conditions

MITOMED+ provides a set of tools that allow users to implement tourism data indicators for the sustainable management of maritime and coastal destinations. The platform is easy to use and allows information to be uploaded through an intuitive interface, requiring staff dedicated to collection and analysis. Replication becomes effective when stakeholders provide reliable, regularly updated data and use the results to guide tourism policies.

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