IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-031-54338-8_46.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Interreg Europe Program as a Tool for Developing Cross-Border Tourism: The Case of Greece

In: Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences

Author

Listed:
  • Christina Kalogirou

    (University of Thessaly)

  • Efstathios Velissariou

    (University of Thessaly)

Abstract

Cross-border tourism is a specific type of tourism, especially when it concerns border areas and border zones. This type of tourism has many advantages encouraging local, regional and national organizations to strengthen cross-border cooperation at several levels. The Interreg Europe is one of the EU’s external cooperation programs and aims to promote cross-border cooperation between its member countries. In this context, the program finances many projects in different sectors, such as innovation, employment, education and tourism. This paper provides an overview of the importance and challenges posed by the European Interreg program in strengthening cross-border tourism in the context of the EU objective to enhance interregional cooperation. Initially, a brief historical overview of the institution is given and then focuses on the role of Interreg in the development of cross-border tourism. This is achieved by examining the position of the European Union as a producer and implementer of cross-border tourism policies, the importance of the border in the development of tourism, the fundamental elements of cross-border tourism cooperation, but also the challenges and criticisms faced by the Interreg program in view of the policies pursued and the experiences of the locally involved actors. Special reference is made to the Interreg programs in Greece related to cross-border tourism, and their contribution to the development of tourism in border areas.

Suggested Citation

  • Christina Kalogirou & Efstathios Velissariou, 2024. "The Interreg Europe Program as a Tool for Developing Cross-Border Tourism: The Case of Greece," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Vicky Katsoni & George Cassar (ed.), Recent Advancements in Tourism Business, Technology and Social Sciences, pages 789-805, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-54338-8_46
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54338-8_46
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Cross-border tourism; Regional development; Interreg Europe Program; Greece;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Z32 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics - - - Tourism and Development
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-54338-8_46. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.