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Jim Keogan & Eileen Quinlivan, Dublin City Council, attending the CTUR Helsinki Seminar, on site visit to Hernesaari Ship building yard

Jim Keogan & Eileen Quinlivan, Dublin City Council, attending the CTUR Helsinki Seminar, on site visit to Hernesaari Ship building yard

Cruise Traffic & Urban Regeneration (CTUR)

The CTUR project explored how cruise activity can link with the regeneration of urban and port built heritage. It examined the common interest of sea towns to develop and strengthen the urban tourism sector.

CTUR project partners  are  Alicante, Dublin, Generalitat Valenciana, Helsinki, Istanbul, Matosinhos-Port Authority of Leixões, Naples- Port Authority of Naples, Rhodes, Rostock, Trieste, Varna and AIVP (Association Internationale Villes et Ports).

The goal of the CTUR partners was to identify actions to transform their respective port-cities from simple transit areas to unlocking the potential for cruise tourism. This involved working to resolve tensions between the port and urban functions. In their planning the project partners took into account the needs of the residents of the port areas in terms of employment, quality of life, housing and the provision of high amenity public spaces.

Key point of focus
Planning and spatial organization

  • Planning the waterfront revitalisation (including derelict industrial areas) in an overall approach of the port city development.
  • Bringing the cruise traffic to the core of the city, improving the connection between the cruise terminal and the city centre or developing the cruise infrastructures most closely with the city centre.
  • Improving the urban accessibility to the cruise terminal and, more generally, to the port in terms of efficient collective transports and in term of quality (landscape; security) of the pedestrian ways.
  • Improving the organization of the passenger port separating cruise traffic and ferry traffic.
  • Rationalizing the organization of the port functions setting up the hard functions in a suitable location and taking into account their environmental impacts.
  • Transforming a port-industrial derelict area into a new city quarter.
  • Mixing housing and cruise traffic in a same area and, more generally, creating a mix between maritime and urban activities within the framework of an integrated approach of sustainable development.
  • Conceiving new cruise terminals as open doors between the port and the city.
  • Improving the infrastructures and facilities of the passenger terminal to strengthen the position of the port city on the cruise market and to become a major

The CTUR project commenced in January 2009 and finished in July 2011. Dublin City Council the lead partner for the Dublin Port CTUR initiative, works with the Local Area  Group, comprising of key stakeholders Dublin Port Company Limited, Dublin Tourism, Fáilte Ireland, Crosbie Property, Dublin City Business Association, Fire Restaurant & Venue, Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Docklands Business Forum, Scott Tallon Walker Architects in the progression of the project.


The final conference was held in Naples in July 2011.