Marketers for Regenerative Tourism

A hands-on vocational education training (VET) program for marketing professionals to support small-scale rural travel that gives back to communities, culture, and nature.

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1 Week In Person
11 - 18 Oct 2025

Tertulia Coliving
Rural Tuscany

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6 Online Sessions
Oct - Dec 2025

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Project Title: Regenerative Community-Based Tourism: reviving rural areas through regenerative coliving and conscious marketing (RCT2025)

Project Reference: 2025-1-IT01-KA210-VET-000351696

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EU-Funded Scholarships

1

Open-Source Toolkit

Learn by Doing

Real Marketing Campaign

If you’re half artist, half scientist — that’s classic marketer magic.

You might be a content creator, brand strategist, PR specialist, data analyst, entrepreneur, or someone helping a small, independent tourism business tell its story.

Be one of the first to know when applications open in 2026.

Come meet us!

Free online community

Join our free online community for marketers and communicators exploring how marketing can become a force for good.

Like a private social media space for tourism marketers and beyond.

  • Free events

  • Meaningful discussions

  • Like-minded professionals

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Who joined the 2025 program

  • Close-up of a woman with long brown hair, brown eyes, and light makeup, wearing a bright blue shirt and standing against a plain light gray background.

    Athina Kaltsiki (Greece)

    Bridging academic frameworks with lived, community-based application.

    Linkedin

  • A woman with curly red hair wearing pink earrings and a blue scarf with pink and white patterns, standing outdoors in front of a modern building and trees.

    Isabelle Claes (Belgium)

    Practice-driven learning at the intersection of education, entrepreneurship, and regenerative tourism, rooted in local contexts and connected globally.

    Linkedin

  • A woman with long, blonde hair styled in loose curls, wearing a light gray top and white earrings, smiling outdoors with a blurred green background.

    Kairi Loomet (Estonia)

    Designing tourism services through design thinking and co-creation.

    Linkedin

  • A man with short dark hair, facial hair, and light skin, wearing a dark button-up shirt, holding glasses in his right hand, and wearing a black watch with a white face.

    Konstantinos Floskakis (Greece)

    Transitioning destinations away from extractive narratives while remaining economically viable.

    Linkedin

  • Close-up of a man with glasses, a beard, and a shaved head, wearing a blue sweater, indoors with natural light, background includes a window and a bookshelf.

    Marco Di Norcia (Italy)

    Applying design thinking to regeneration rather than innovation for novelty.

    Linkedin

  • Woman with short brown hair smiling, standing outdoors in front of tall green plants.

    Maria Canelhas (Portugal)

    Working in regeneration beyond tourism, rooted in food, land, and community.

    Linkedin

  • A young man with curly brown hair, light skin, and blue eyes is smiling slightly in front of a plain light gray background. He's wearing an orange button-up shirt over a black t-shirt with a blue graphic design.

    Marko Medar (Estonia)

    Introducing tourism where none exists, without starting from promotion or growth.

    Linkedin

  • Woman with long dark hair and light skin, wearing a red top, holding a microphone, speaking or presenting at an event.

    Paula Miquelis (Portugal)

    Bridging food systems, education, and tourism through everyday practice.

    Linkedin

  • Man sitting at an outdoor table on a beach, looking thoughtful, with benches and a cloudy sky in the background.

    Richard Lindberg (Sweden)

    Working in advocacy, storytelling, and research as drivers of traveller behavior and market change.

    Linkedin

  • Black and white photo of a smiling woman with dark hair tied back, outdoors with plants in the background.

    Smaranda Băluț (Romania)

    Growing a community-based travel business from lived experience and local ethos.

    Linkedin

Could this be you next?

This isn’t about learning cookie-cutter marketing tactics. 

It’s about aligning your skills with your values to help support tourism that gives back.

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Can tourism help rural Europe?

Between 2014 and 2024, almost 8 million people left rural EU regions, while cities gained over 10 million. Empty houses, closed shops, and fading traditions are now common.


Meanwhile, mass tourism has packed city squares but drained their soul. Think
Venice, Barcelona, or Dubrovnik. And marketing has pushed this rush, turning destinations into products and people into numbers.

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But what if we get it right?

Regenerative tourism gives back more than it takes.

For us, it means small-scale, community-led experiences in rural areas that bring nature back, boost local pride, and make each place shine. 

And conscious marketing is the bridge. It helps these places tell their story, attract the right visitors, and keep the benefits close to home.

Ideas meet reality

So what happened when these ideas met a real place?

  • Language shifted from features to benefits

  • Communication invited reflection, not urgency

  • Fewer channels, deeper alignment

  • Marketing became a filter, not a megaphone

  • Guests arrived with clearer expectations, and the place could stay true to itself

  • Marketing protected the place instead of pressuring it

The real case

Learning with real places

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Tertulia Coliving became an immersive learning environment where marketing decisions had real consequences for the place and community.

Beyond Tertulia Coliving, the program also engaged with:

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Photo Credits: LAMA Impresa Sociale

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More events

Where else you can meet us

Our team is also sharing the project’s insights at selected online events across Europe:

ViaVia Tourism Academy — Online Community Talks

5 February 2026
12:30–2:00 PM CET
Speaker: Claudia Guerreiro

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS)

Rehumanizing Profit: Redefining Business
for a Regenerative Future

5 March 2026
11:00 AM–2:00 PM CET
Speaker & Co-Host: Claudia Guerreiro

Peripheral LINKs Convergence

11 February 2026
6:20–7:45 PM CET
Speaker: Anja von Emden

Zebra Growth

The Death of Marketing: What Emerges When Marketing As We Know It Ends

9 March 2026 | 5:30–7:00 PM CET

Speaker: Claudia Guerreiro

Latitude

Where the people reshaping tourism connect

25 & 26 March 2026 

Project Representatives: Claudia Guerreiro & Verónica Lawson Vilches

Free community

Keep the conversation going

Join our free, private social space for professionals who believe marketing can be a force for good.

It’s a place to stay connected, exchange ideas, and continue learning beyond this project.

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Timeline

1 – 14 September 2025

Submit your application


19 September 2025

Get your results


 Join the online onboarding

29 September 2025


Immerse yourself in Tuscany

11 – 18 October 2025


29 October – 3 December 2025

Continue the journey online


1 February – 31 March 2026

Share the open-source toolkit

Thank you to our ambassadors

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Meet the Team

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Got questions? We have answers for you!

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Project Title: Regenerative Community-Based Tourism: reviving rural areas through regenerative coliving and conscious marketing (RCT2025)

Project Reference: 2025-1-IT01-KA210-VET-000351696

Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or INAPP.