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UDP - Excellent bathing water

Collection: LUISA : Land-Use based Integrated Sustainability Assessment modelling platform 

Description

This indicator measures the quality of bathing waters. It is calculated as the share of sampled bathing water sites that are classified as "excellent" within a tourist destination. The measurement criterion is based on the presence of significant polluting substances in fresh and coastal waters throughout the period May-September. Higher values indicate higher quality of bathing waters in the tourist destination. The indicator is part of the environmental impacts pillar of the EU Tourism Dashboard. UNIT OF MEASURE: %. RESOLUTION: NUTS0, NUTS2, NUTS3. COMPLETENESS: Iceland and Norway are not available (the level of completeness is 100% when EU27, Iceland, Switzerland and Norway are fully covered). POLICY CONTEXT: Quality of natural environment in bathing areas. METHODOLOGY: Geographic coordinates of bathing water sites were converted to vector data and aggregated per NUTS level. The share of excellent bathing waters was calculated by considering only the bathing water sites classified as 'excellent'. DATA SOURCES: State of Bathing Water(European Environmental Agency), NUTS 2021 classification.

Contact

Email
JRC-KCTP (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

Pigaiani, Cristian; Batista, Filipe; Ricardo Barranco (2022): UDP - Excellent bathing water. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/6a7a5402-0b08-488e-85db-68a5645cb164

Keywords

bathing waters Europe tourism

Data access

Excellent bathing water - visualisation
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 
Excellent bathing water - download (ODS)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 
Excellent bathing water - download (JSON)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 
Excellent bathing water - download (CSV)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 
State of Bathing Water, European Environmental Agency.
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • website

Geographic areas

Switzerland European Union Iceland Norway

Temporal coverage

From date To date
2021-01-01 2021-12-31
2019-01-01 2019-12-31

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2022-09-21
Modified date
2024-01-17
Issued date
2022-09-19
Landing page
https://tourism-dashboard.ec.europa.eu/ 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Environment
Update frequency
biennial
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/6a7a5402-0b08-488e-85db-68a5645cb164
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