Mapping the future of EU travel: The functionalities of the EU Tourism Dashboard
How open data is helping shape smarter, greener, and more resilient tourism across Europe
In the summer, many Europeans take the opportunity to travel across the continent to explore and discover all it has to offer. In order to prepare accordingly, the EU Tourism Dashboard is a useful tool to navigate the European tourism ecosystem. The dashboard offers interactive visualisations to monitor both the green and digital transitions of European tourism. It covers all EU countries and, additionally, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland.
The EU Tourism dashboard covers the green, digital, and socio-economic EU policy pillars to track progress towards more sustainable tourism in these terms. The dashboard has various functionalities, such as ‘My Destination’, where the user can see how each covered country performs in regard to the three policy pillars. Another functionality is the ‘Indicator Map view’ where you can get an overview of how the entire EU region performs on specific indicators from each pillar. The final interactive map the dashboard offer is the ‘Monthly data view’, where you can see a country’s development per indicator in a timeline format.
As an online knowledge tool, the EU Tourism Dashboard wants to provide meaningful visualisations of indicators relevant to tourism. With these insights, issues can be identified, and policy initiatives can be facilitated, contributing to a more sustainable and resilient tourism ecosystem. The data in this dashboard is provided by reliable sources, namely Eurostat, national statistics offices, and the Joint Research Centre.
Whether you are a curious traveller exploring trends in your country of destination or a regional tourism board planning for the upcoming season, the EU Tourism Dashboard is a valuable resource to understand how tourism is evolving when it comes to climate change impact and shifting traveller behaviour. If you want to learn more about how EU countries are responding to these trends, have a look at data.europa.eu datasets on tourism trends.
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