Evaluation of water demand management strategies in the tourism sector (or more specifically: in coastal mass tourism destinations)

SIMTWIST (Simulating tourism water consumption with stakeholders) is a three-year European project that aims to inform tourism decision-makers about the effectiveness of a variety of measures to reduce tourism’s water consumption. The project aims to 1) estimate tourism’s share in current and future macro-level water scarcity in the Mediterranean, and 2) study and simulate water-related behaviour of tourism stakeholders at the micro-level. The project has two case-study areas: Benidorm and Rimini.

This thesis project entails: 1) performing a literature review of all the available/missing water demand management strategies in the tourism sector (global, European and regional level); 2) improving an available policy database of existing literature; 3) Categorize the existing measures.