An event titled "A Bigger Region: Tourism That Makes the Difference - Goals, Objectives, and Experiences", held at the M9 Museum in Mestre and dedicated to the operating programme of the European Regional Development Fund POR-FESR 2014-2020, placed a particular focus on tourism. The sector benefitted for the first time from POR-FESR funds, with extremely positive results. "The programme was an added value for tourism, allowing for the start of an efficient process of regeneration and a qualitative increase of the regional system and its businesses," said Federico Caner, tourism councillor for the Region of Veneto. The region allocated some 45 million euros of POR-FESR funding to tourism, with an additional five million euros in regional funding. This is the largest amount ever allocated by the Region of Veneto to support small and medium-sized enterprises in tourism. It allowed for remodeling accommodation structures, developing new tourism products, launching new innovative businesses and creating networks among businesses for improved product management, above all in the sectors of "green" and "slow" tourism. At the same time, it supported the aggregation of businesses with a view to improved penetration in international markets.
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Regione Veneto