Between 2021 and 2024, Ademe Indian Ocean has piloted the Sustainable Tourism Fund in Reunion and Mayotte, a national system intended to support the ecological transition of tourism stakeholders. Now this dynamic after closing the device, the transition advisors of the CCI Réunion have taken up the torch of this support.
Sustainable tourism is a vector of attractiveness for a territory. After the shock of the 2020 health crisis, the Sustainable Tourism Fund (FTD) set itself the mission of supporting VSE-SMEs in the tourism sector in the ecological transition. This support was facilitated by partnership mobilization : in Reunion with the CCI Réunion, the Northern Intercommunal Tourist Office and the Réunion National Park ; in Mayotte with the Mayotte Tourist Development Agency. The Sustainable Tourism Fund having come to an end, Ademe Indian Ocean wanted to maintain this dynamic by renewing its partnership with the CCI Réunion (until February 2026 for now). The CCI Réunion has in-house skills in supporting the ecological transition.. The objective remains to encourage and help tourist structures to evolve and to direct them towards existing financial aid schemes that can encourage investment in sustainable development. : Springboard for the ecological transition of SMEs, Heat Fund and Bungalow 2 program for energy efficiency in establishments, energy saving certificate (CEE), other EDF or regional aid for energy savings, etc.
The role of facilitator of the CCI Réunion
The approach remains generally the same, it is above all the interlocutor who changes. Support for the ecological transition in tourism today involves the center of expertise and support for transitions of the CCI Réunion. It begins with an inventory. An action plan is then recommended based on the needs expressed by the company.. Support includes advice, preparing files and monitoring the completion of actions. Several post-FTD diagnostics have already been carried out in this new framework by the CCI Réunion for lodges and restaurants. “The Sustainable Tourism Fund was a package bringing together various aids. From now on, it is we who guide and support the project leader towards the various assistance they can request to implement their actions. We have a role of facilitator”, explained Chakilah Patell, advisor in ecological transition and energy transition of the CCI Réunion. For a first approach to the process, a self-diagnosis of sustainable tourism exists on the CCI Réunion website.
