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The MEDINA Project
MEDINA (the acronym stands for MEDiterranean
by Internet Access), partially founded by the European Commission,
includes eighteen partners from fourteen
countries in the Mediterranean area: national or
regional tourism offices, ministries of culture and tourism,
universities and private corporations etc. It started in 2002
and will end in June 2006.
The project wishes to support a new emerging form of tourism, oftentimes
called “cultural tourism”. The "cultural
tourists" live a vacation mainly as a cultural experience –
an opportunity for increasing their knowledge. For cultural tourists,
the preparatory phase of vacation is a learning experience per se.
They enjoy in reading about the places of their future visit and
about the related aspects of the local culture, both in a national
perspective and in a wider civilization context.
MEDINA is based upon a federation of national web
sites (Algeria, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco,
Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia) and the MEDINA portal,
integrating (part of) the information of the national web
sites. The overall system provides information about the heritage
of the Mediterranean basin: each national site focuses on
the cultural heritage of a specific country and provides country
specific contents. The MEDINA portal highlights
the common cultural background of the different countries,
and the contributions of the different civilizations. |
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This project is co-funded by the European
Union.
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