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| Project Status: | Live Project | ||
| Project Leader: | Caitriona Strain | ||
| Funding Programme: | Atlantic Area Programme 2014 - 2020 | ||
| Project Budget: | €2,462,268 | ||
| Start Date: | May, 2019 | ||
| Finish Date: | Apr, 2022 | ||
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- To increase the number of visits to supported cultural sites by 500 per annum
- To improve the policies in 30% of Atlantic regions for exploiting natural and cultural assets for economic development
PARTNERS
| Region | Organisation / Role |
| Andalucia, Spain | IEDT (Institute for Employment and Socioeconomic and Technology of the Provincial of Cadiz) |
| Andalucia, Spain | University of Cádiz |
| Cantabria, Spain | Gobierno de Cantabria |
| Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom | Derry City & Strabane District Council |
| Devon, United Kingdom | Devon County Council |
| Donegal, Ireland | Donegal County Council |
| Donegal, Ireland | ERNACT |
| Madeira, Portugal | Madeira Tourism Board |
Pays de la Loire, France | CLARTE |
- 300 participants attending 16 events
- 42% of AA regions using the project outputs by 2023 (30% by project end in 2021)
- 7 Sustainability Plans (1 per region)
- 280 participants attending 28 Regional Stakeholder Group meetings (4 per region)
- 1 Common cultural tourism ideas TOOLKIT designed, developed and tested
- 1 platform to cooperatively deliver new multi-region networked tourism packages
- 3 multi-region niche tourism packages piloted with tourists across the partner regions
- 1 project evaluation
- 1 cultural heritage/tourism digital transformation study completed
DESCRIPTION
The overall objective is to develop new types of historical maritime tourist packages and cultural attractions for the Atlantic by sharing cultural assets across regions, supported by new technologies and transnational collaboration tools. The cultural assets could be in museums, shipwreck sites, or archives related to battles or migrating passengers and their stories, etc.
The main features of the new attractions are: They present cultural content from other regions, as well as their own; Connect visitor centres to real underwater sites that contain shipwrecks or submarines; Create a richer visitor experience by introducing new technologies such as Virtual Reality; Focus on historical niches that have left a cultural footprint across Atlantic regions, e.g., Napoleonic; Are based in existing cultural attraction building.
The expected impact is to increase the number of visits to supported cultural sites by 500 per annum and result in 30% of Atlantic regions using the project's outputs to improve their policies for exploiting cultural assets for economic development; It will facilitate local communities cooperate to develop new niche tourism services, create new local jobs, fix and attract people, create synergies between existing tourism providers and improve the economic and social wellbeing of the project regions.
The project tools and pilots developed will be used by other groups of Atlantic regions to amplify and multiply the above impact across the Atlantic Area.