Traduction de «centre de recherche touristique de caraïbes » (Français → Anglais) :

The Balearic Islands' Regional Government has recently submitted a scheme for setting up a Tourism Research Centre with a view to increasing investment in tourist sector RDI and thus improving the island's competitiveness.

The Balearic Islands' Regional Government has recently submitted a scheme for setting up a Tourism Research Centre with a view to increasing investment in tourist sector RDI and thus improving the island's competitiveness.

It includes in particular : - under Regis (ECU 21.3 million) the second tranche for work on extending the airport and the commercial port container terminal, the creation of an economic database on the Caribbean, improvements to tourism accommodation, the exploitation of renewable energy resources, improvements to the processing facilities for agricultural products, agricultural diversification (plant production, the timber industry); - under Envireg (ECU 1.8 million), the improvement of coastal forests, the treatment of industrial waste and the protection of Marin Bay; - under Stride (ECU 1.8 million), agricultural ...[+++]research and development and support for information transfer between research centres.

In the light of the above a strategy has been drawn up centring on the following development priorities : a) Sustaining agriculture, primarily in the inner areas, by enhancing the region's typical agricultural products, trying out new crops, strengthening livestock farming (sheep rearing), promoting the integration of activities in the environmental protection, forestry and tourism fields and encouraging initiatives aimed at supplementing farmers' incomes. b) Encouraging the development of dynamic SMEs capable of exploiting the new technologies and responding effectively to market changes in both the traditional sectors and new growth industries by : - facilitating access to the capital market; - trying out an integrated approach to promot ...[+++]ing the setting- up of new businesses; - developing advanced tertiary activities, applied research and technical centres which will enable research findings to be exploited in practice. c) Developing the region's tourist potential by rationalizing and improving accomodation facilities and promoting complex tourist products combining natural and environmental resources, culture, sport and health/.

The Objective 2 programmes focus on four fields of action : - industrial expansion, diversification and renewal for example investment in the redevelopment of Almelo city centre to make it more attractive to businesses, and 4.5 MECU for work on the port area of Delfzijl; - expansion of applied scientific research; - promotion and improvement of tourist potential; - redevelopment of industrial areas and improvement of the socio- economic structure. Measures under these d ...[+++]evelopment priorities comprise for example: - innovation and technology transfer, like telematics and new materials research, promotion of quality improvement, creation of vocational training infrastructure projects; - 2 - - upgrading of industrial estates; - promotion of subcontracting and quality improvement concerning environmental products and processes, pilot-projects for collection of industrial waste and environmental services for companies in the regions; - promotion and coordination of tourism activities for example, development of bicycle paths in Dalen and Odoorn, and continued investment in the Nooder Dierenpark zoo in Groningen; - cross border development, including external promotion of the region and improvement of the knowledge of European markets as well as the modernisation of transport and distribution facilities.

The IDO seeks to achieve eight inter-related economic development objectives for the Strathclyde economy, namely to : - Assist the development of industries which offer the most promissing opportunities for growth in the context of the post 1992 emergence of the Single Market in the Community. - Encourage the formation and subsequent growth of local enterprise, in particular small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and especially in growth sectors. - Assist local industry to introduce new technology into its products and production processes, in particular through better links with the higher education and research organisations in the ...[+++] region. - Build on successes in attracting and expanding inward investment, particularly by overseas companies seeking a European manufacturing base, and by raising levels of research and product authority in existing international facilities in the Region/. - 2 - - Develop a vigorous tourist industry for the urban as well as rural parts of the area, attracting significantly larger numbers of international events and tourists. - Improve external communications to help industry meet the challenges and opportunities of the single market, and to reduce access costs to the market. - Create a modern "metropolitan heart", building on the established business, tourist and cultural centre of Glasgow as a source of growth for the whole region. - Reinforce efforts to change the region's image from that of a rundown, declining industrial region to that of a region with technologically progressive industries, strong cultural and environmental attractions, and a labour force equipped with the skills required for the 1990s.