The Chamber of Commerce of Sevilla presents results and bests practices of the CHORD Project to local and regional stakeholders and authorities in Sevilla

TheChamber of Commerce of Sevilla organized six Info Sessions to present results and bests practices of the CHORD Project to local and regional stakeholders and authorities in Sevilla (Spain)

In these meetings, the participants had the opportunity to know the activities of the project that have already taken place, those that have yet to be executed and the expected results.

In the same way the Cultural Heritage and Industries Cluster from Arles (France), a partner of the project, has been presented in order to test the institutions and companies interest in fostering a similar initiative in Seville.

With the aim of offering information about the support tools available in Spain for the cluster constitution and consolidation in the culture and heritage field, it was presented the cluster policy from the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade through the Support Programme for Innovative clusters (Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras, AEI).

It is worth to mention that, these meetings have confirmed the favorable reception of this initiative by all the participant organizations in the meetings that have expressed their interest in including the CHORD experience and the prospect of cluster in their ways of working, mainly in the provincial Tourist Plans and when creating different tourism consortiums.

For further information about the project and their activities, you can visit: www.chordmed.eu

Meetings:

·         February 10th 2011

EUSA Tourism University School (Escuela Universitaria de Turismo EUSA)

Participant: Concha Gil, Heritage teacher

·         February 15th 2011

Regional Ministry for Tourism, Trade and Sports Autonomous Government of Andalucía. (Consejería de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía)

Participant: Sara Cano, Head of Quality, Innovation and Touristic Prospective Department

·         February 18th 2011

Provincial Delegation Ministry for Tourism, Trade and Sports (Delegación Provincial de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte)

Participants: Ana María Ferres Torres, Head of Tourism Department and Rosa Ropero, Tourism technician

·         February 18th 2011

Prodetur

Participants: Rocío Naranjo, Head of the Tourism Marketing Department and Yaika Alvarez, Tourist Plan of la Campiña and Dynamization Plan for the Guadalquivir River (Planiturio)

·         February 18th 2011

Company es.cultura

Participant: David Serrano, Manager

·         February 25th 2011

Seville Tourism Consortium (Turismo de Sevilla)

Participant: José Pallarés, Events Department technician