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Project cooperationUpdated on 23 September 2025

CUE-LAB: Circular Urban Tourism Living Lab (EU Cities + Costa Rica)

Wladyslaw Labuda

CEO at Observatorio Domos Bosque Tropical

Miramar, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

About

We’re assembling a transnational consortium for DUT CUE-2 to pilot resident-first, circular tourism with an AI-enabled operations stack. Three EU city labs will test policy and operational tools to reduce waste, balance visitor flows, stabilize affordability, and strengthen local food systems—while a Costa Rica micro-destination (Domos Sustainable Lab) serves as a cooperation site to validate scalable, low-cost solutions.

What we offer

  • Ready living-lab: PWA “hotel in your phone,” AI concierge, open APIs to PMS/booking, QR bike rental with geofencing, returnable/refill network, constructed wetlands for greywater, EV green chargers, and biodiversity actions (native fruit trees, pollinator gardens, bee biospheres).

  • Shared KPI framework (energy/water/waste/mobility/equity/biodiversity) and open toolkits (SOPs, data schema, policy playbooks).

What we seek

  • Municipalities/DMOs: visitor-flow management, housing/affordability measures, public-space and mobility pilots.

  • Universities/Research: evaluation, spatial analysis, circular metrics, SROI.

  • SMEs/Tech: micromobility, refill logistics, EMS/BMS, PMS/open-API, wetland/water reuse, fintech/tokenized payments.

  • Civil society/producer co-ops: local sourcing, benefit-sharing fund governance.

Planned outcomes

  • Lower kWh & liters per guest-night; higher reuse/return rates; reduced hotspot pressure; increased spend with local producers; resident satisfaction gains.

  • Replicable governance & operations playbooks for cities and destinations.

Topic

  • CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
  • CUE topic 2 – Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges
  • CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity 
  • PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets

Type

  • Looking for partners to join a project
  • Looking to join a project

Organisation

Observatorio Domos Bosque Tropical

Business (SME)

Miramar, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

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