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AdriACTIVE

Adriatic Alliance for Cross-border Touristic InnovatiVe Experiences

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Information

Start date
01/07/2025
End date
31/12/2028
Total budget
6.835.835,90
Partnership
IT - 7
HR - 8
Project typology:
OSI Project

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Project specific objectives

1) Strengthen cooperation between Italy and Croatia in sustainable active tourism, promoting cultural and natural heritage and diversifying flows beyond main coastal areas.

2) Develop a cross-border tourist itinerary linking key hubs and local routes to enhance heritage valorisation.

3) Build the capacity of local stakeholders, especially tourism operators and SMEs, through training, cooperation, and exchange of good practices.

4) Test innovative solutions, including digital tools, to support experience-based, community-driven, and regenerative tourism.

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Project main outputs

1) A Cross-border (CB) tourist itinerary, for a wider diffusion of sustainable and aternative tourism in Italy and Croatia;

2) Pilot actions aimed at improving accessibility, visibility and tourism usability of itineraries and hubs;

3) A Cross-border Valorisation Strategy of the cross-border itinerary of experiential and slow tourism; 

4) Workshops to reinforce cooperation and exchange know-how among stakeholders on the management and valorisation of touristic hubs.

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About

The AdriACTIVE project tackles the critical imbalance in Italian and Croatian tourism, where the sector's heavy reliance on major attractions actively fuels the negative effects of overtourism. This hinders sustainable development and leads to the persistent under-exploitation of valuable, lesser-known cultural and natural heritage. This situation ignores a growing demand for slow, proximity, and regenerative tourism experiences that better integrate with local communities.
The central objective is to establish a cross-border strategic tourist product, specifically designed to enhance sustainable active tourism and promote shared cultural and natural heritage. This strategy aims to reduce tourism's negative impacts by fostering territorial collaboration and empowering local communities. The ultimate aim is to significantly boost experience-based tourism, anchoring its success in the well-being of residents as the key measure of long-term sustainability.
To achieve this, the project focuses on defining and promoting attractive cultural itineraries and routes and establishing a cross-border hub to encourage "slow fruition" of the territories. Concrete actions include empowering the skills of tourism operators, testing innovative digital solutions, and enhancing cultural places as multidisciplinary hubs, ensuring a diversified and socially sustainable tourism offer.

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Lead partner

The Lead partner represents and takes full financial and legal responsibility for the entire partnership.

Puglia Region
Dept. of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Valorization of Territory

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News & Events

  • EVENT
    08/10/2026
    Start date:
    15 Oct 2026
    End date:
    15 Oct 2026

    From Local to Global: enhancing local tourism to generate cross-border value

  • EVENT
    07/10/2026
    Start date:
    13 Oct 2026
    End date:
    15 Oct 2026

    Study Visit along the Saint Francis Way in Emilia-Romagna

  • EVENT
    06/10/2026
    Start date:
    14 Oct 2026
    End date:
    14 Oct 2026

    AdriACTIVE’s third Partnership meeting in Verucchio

  • NEWS
    08/07/2026

    Emilia-Romagna highlights the potential of the Saint Francis Way

    At an online event organised by I Cammini di Francesco in Emilia-Romagna APS, the Emilia-Romagna Regionshowcased AdriACTIVE’s contribution to the development of the Saint Francis Way. This participation gave visibility to the project’s regional pilot and highlighted how the route’s cultural heritage and local communities can contribute to a shared, sustainable tourism offer across the Adriatic.

  • NEWS
    30/06/2026

    AdriACTIVE partners meet online to review progress and prepare the next implementation phase

    AdriACTIVE partners are turning shared ideas into action. During their second meeting, partners from Italy and Croatia reviewed progress and set the course for a cross-border tourism experience connecting local communities, cultural and natural heritage, and lesser-known Adriatic destinations.

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