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International Mediterranean Day: camping facilities are solutions for an increasingly sustainable beach vacation

Today, July 8, 2025, is Mediterranean Sea Day, a very important occasion to raise awareness about the health of the Mare Nostrum and the dangers that threaten it. AsIspra, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, states, “The Mediterranean Sea is a treasure chest of our Planet’s marine biodiversity because, despite having only an area of about 1 percent of all oceans, it is home to more than 12 Thousand marine species, between 4 and 12 percent of the world’s marine biodiversity.”

The sea is not an inexhaustible resource and that is why its health is everyone’s responsibility. There are so many camping facilities located in the coastal areas of our country and the states bordering the Mediterranean Sea, implementing increasingly careful measures in order to protect it, because good deeds start right on land with targeted programs of environmental sustainability, perfectly adapted to the sphere of receptivity and outdoor tourism.

Open-air facilities are increasingly focused on incentivizing the green and digital transition path through the implementation of sustainable practices, complicit with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance measurement. Special attention is increasingly being paid to future strategies and concrete measures on how campgrounds can optimize energy and water consumption, combat climate change, and preserve natural resources.

Representatives of camping associations from Italy, Spain, France, and Croatia, the leading countries of the open-air sector in the Mediterranean region, are increasingly focused on the challenges and opportunities that camping facilities must and can face in times of climate change and digitization, a future that runs fast but increasingly in search of origins, in connection with nature, and with the sea, a resource that is not only precious but indispensable.

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