Consulting - Engineering - Training
From the initial assesment to the evaluation of plans and policies, TEC can handle each step of tourism and travel policies.
This assistance can be limited but also followed up through longer periods (methodological assistance and advices). Tec is building long term partnerships with public or private institutions. We work for instance with the Institut Français de l'Environnement (Ifen) since 1999 ; we organise since january 2001 the cooperation between Ifen and Afit and have been experts to the Blue plan for several years.
We are particularly helpful to intitutions which wish to diversify or develop some tourism product complementing their basic activity ( monitoring, initiation and follow up of environmental assesments, building strategic or action plans for instance).
Our proposals are directed to local governments, private and public firms, NGOs, governments and international organisations.
Technical and scientific early warning service
Organisation and management of seminars, workshops, conferences
Management of work group and steering committees
Raising stakehlders' awareness
Assistance in formulating strategies and action plans
Assitance to the construction of partnerships, managing collaboration schemes
Fund raising
Implementation of strategies and action plans
Surveys and engineering
State of the art and stake analysis
Future studies
Environmental Impact Assessment
Market studies
Elaboration of strategies and action plans
Creation and management of data banks
Statistics: methodological assistance in the elaboration of statistic surveys
Data analysis, data processing (cartography...)
Indicators: environment and sustainable development indicators, performance indicators
Public policies assessment
Training
TEC proposes modules of initial formation and continuous training, in professional environment as well as academic world.
In 2004, for instance, we taught at the Master Tourisme et Environnement (University of St Quentin en Yvelines), at the Master of Tourism and Sustainable Development (University of Montpellier) and took up a course in english within the Master of Science "Strategic Tourism Management" of CERAM in Sophia Antipolis. We also implemented a 3-days course on sustainable tourism for local civil servants, as well as for top officials from the Ministrt of tourism.
Our fields of intervention are the followings :
- tourism, in much of its aspects: introduction to tourism, observation and evaluation, development of stretegies, ecotourism and sustainable tourism...,
- environmental policies for local communities,
- local sustainable development (Agenda 21 local),
- observation and evaluation of the environment and the sustainable development (indicators, statistics, databases),
- regional planning and transport, particularly on the coastal and rural areas
- methods related to the regional planning: building a project of territory, implementing a sustainable development strategy, evaluating the actions...