The Olive Tree Route
Mediterranean olive heritage
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COE Certified Cultural Route
This is an officially certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
This route celebrates olive cultivation, oil production, and olive culture around the Mediterranean.
AGROTURİZMDE YENİ EĞİLİMLER: ZEYTİNYAĞI TURİZMİ
İşıl ARIKAN SALTIK, Hüseyin Çeken (2017)
Journal of Life Economics
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FOOD TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODEL: CASE STUDY OF PASAR PAPRINGAN
Tuti Elfrida (2021)
Journal of Tourism Destination and Attraction
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Performance Analysis of Airports Located Within Tourism Development Corridors in Türkiye: An Evaluation Using the CILOS and AROMAN Methods
Merve ÜNLÜ, Adile Bebek Yeşilkaya (2025)
Journal of Aviation
A Proposal for a Multimodal Tourist Route
Vasileios Dimou, Eirini Tsagkalidou, Chris A. Vasilliadis (2026)
Springer proceedings in business and economics
THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL ROUTE INDICATORS IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA
RA Wahyuningputri, RAS Moningka, RAS Moningka (2022)
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The Journey
The Olive Tree Route celebrates the olive tree's central role in Mediterranean civilization - agriculture, cuisine, religion, and landscape. Olives and olive oil have been cultivated for over 6,000 years.
The route connects olive-producing regions in Spain, Italy, Greece, Southern France, Portugal, Croatia, and other Mediterranean countries. Sites include ancient olive groves, traditional mills, museums of olive culture, protected designation of origin (PDO) regions, and olive festivals.
The route explores olive cultivation techniques, oil production, Mediterranean diet, olive trees in mythology and religion, landscape ecology, and sustainable agriculture. Many ancient olive trees are living monuments.