{"id":8289,"date":"2026-03-19T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:59:59","slug":"cresinmed-building-a-competitive-and-innovative-future-for-rural-tourism-enterprises-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=8289&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"CRESinMED: Building a Competitive and Innovative Future for Rural Tourism Enterprises in the Mediterranean \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development of rural tourism has emerged as a key pillar of sustainable tourism, supporting local economic vitality while safeguarding natural and cultural assets. In this context, the <strong>Ministry of Tourism<\/strong> \u2013 Tunisia is engaged in the promising project <strong>\u201cCompetitiveness and Internationalization of Rural Tourism SMEs in the Mediterranean\u201d (CRESinMED)\u201d,<\/strong> a Mediterranean cooperation project designed to enhance the performance and visibility of rural tourism enterprises across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Co-financed by the European Union under the framework of <strong>the Interreg NEXT MED Programme<\/strong>, the project is carried out in partnership with several Mediterranean stakeholders, including\u00a0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Interforum Srl (Italy), THREE THIRDS SOCIETY (Greece),<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>West Mediterranean Development Agency (T\u00fcrkiye),<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (Jordan),<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Official Chamber of Commerce Industry Services and Navigation of Valencia (Spain),<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leaders Organization (Palestine).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Through this structured transnational cooperation, the project <strong>will support 50 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)<\/strong> operating in rural tourism by providing <strong>customized business re-engineering and internationalization plans<\/strong>. The initiative seeks to foster a more <strong>competitive, digitally advanced, and internationally connected rural tourism ecosystem, strengthening resilience and market positioning through integrated actions in training, networking, digital innovation, and cluster development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of rural tourism has emerged as a key pillar of sustainable tourism, supporting local economic vitality while safeguarding natural and cultural assets. In this context, the Ministry of Tourism \u2013 Tunisia is engaged in the promising project \u201cCompetitiveness and Internationalization of Rural Tourism SMEs in the Mediterranean\u201d (CRESinMED)\u201d, a Mediterranean cooperation project designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":8289,"fr":8285,"ar":8284},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8293,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}