Innovation in Tourism in the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

Date of latest update: 2025-10-15

Description

Description (EN):

Empowering ADRION tourism sector innovation is the way to safeguard the continuation of socio-economic growth of the area, tourism representing one of the most important industries in the area with four countries (Italy, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia) included in the world top 40 in 2015 (ref. Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index - TTCI). Tourism in the area has to cope with changes in demand and tourist behavior, new emerging markets and socio-economic crises. The project aims at improving the innovation capability of ADRION tourism sector, relying heavily on innovative products, processes and services that can supplement natural and cultural offerings. The project will network the transnational ADRION quadruple helix tourism community into an Adriatic Ionian Tourism Technology Platform with active involvement throughout the project. A Tourism Innovation Observatory will provide a platform for modeling ADRION innovative tourism, equipped with a Tourism Innovation Decision Support System providing the ability to evaluate the impact of potential interventions on the competitiveness and sustainability of tourism destinations, structures and services. Based on a wide consensus built in the area among quadruple helix stakeholders a Strategic Agenda on Innovation in Tourism will be produced offering the strategy for tourism innovation enhancement and combined with an Action Plan issuing policy recommendations and guidelines for investments as well as potential accessible funding. It is expected that the project will simulate a paradigm shift in tourism policies and investments through its innovative approach and enrolled tools. On the other hand it is expected to provide a permanent and lasting effect in regional and local strategies on tourism by technology transfer and capacity building of both public and private sectors and leading to a regional tourism innovation system in the area.

Achievements (EN):

What do we mean when we talk about innovation in the tourism sector? Generally speaking, this is a very broad topic spanning from technology to creative initiatives. Apparently, innovation is largely present in this sector, but how can we measure its impact on the market as well as on the territories? The ADRION funded project Innoxenia responded to this challenge by developing a comprehensive database called, rightly, “Tourism Innovation Observatory”. The project has set up this platform with the aim to collect data from different sources targeting the tourism destinations of the Adriatic-Ionian area, in order to analyse trends, and ultimately to draw some considerations which can help operators to improve their business. What is the Tourist Innovation Observatory? Do you want to know the average price of hotels in a specific place of the Adriatic-Ionian region? The tourism flow in relevant destinations including business arrivals? The number of archeological sites and museums? Here you are. The Tourist Innovation Observatory collects data on the tourism industry targeting the most visited destinations of the Adriatic-Ionian region. Data are classified on the basis of several indicators, including enterprises using a voluntary certification for environmental measures, basically the ones which are supposed to be “sustainable” according to ETIS, the European Tourism Indicators System for sustainable destination management. Unlike other similar databases, the platform collects a quite high amount of web-data taken from online touristic sources like Trip Advisor or Booking. This feature allows to benchmark from single destinations and municipalities up to countries according to specific parameters and performances. The database is also a repository for Best Practices When a single destination is underperforming (according to the standard value given by the ADRION partners’ area), the system automatically shows best practices and solutions adopted in other countries to overcome those criticalities. Innovation can lead to a reduction of pricing: An interesting finding, which came up in the analysis of the data collected in the Observatory, shows that innovation combined with good ratings provided by the costumers may lead, for instance, to cheaper accommodations. Replicability of the result: The Tourism Innovation Observatory has been populated by Innoxenia partners during the project life-cycle, but it was designed to be also accessible, upon registration and single user login, to any organisation which is willing to include data on further areas, destinations or countries. The aim is to produce a Big Data repository that can provide the opportunity to better analyse mega trends and ease political decisions on the tourism industry. How the project involved the community of operators of the tourism sector: Dissemination events and Innoxenia Cafè: The project has constantly kept involved the tourism operators by organising get-togethers called “Innoxenia Cafè” in order to exchange experiences and, more importantly, collect surveys which served as a basis for part of the data stored in the Observatory. Moreover, each partner organised dissemination events for socio-economic operators of the sector to showcase project results, including the Observatory. Thanks to structured networking activities as well as to capacity building events held in the partner’s countries, InnoXenia has contributed to increase the awareness of the target audience about the relation between innovation and sustainable development policies.

Website: http://www.adrioninterreg.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of capacity of key innovation actors to be effectively involved in transnational actions for the development of a regional Innovation system

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project will create a transnational networked tourism community in the ADRION macroregion as a result of the Adriatic Ionian Tourism Technology Platform (AITTP). This community will comprise all relevant actors of the quadruple helix in the macroregion, coming from academia / research, tourism structures and services, SMEs, policy makers and the public sectors and civil society organizations. The establishment of the Tourism Innovation Observatory (TIO) equipped by highly innovative Tourism Innovation Decision Support System (TIDSS), will enable technology transfer among the members of AITTP networked tourism community contributing to the programme result indicator and increasing their capacity to be effectively involved in transnational actions for developing a regional innovation system in the tourism sector in the area. TIDSS will enable benchmarking of innovative interventions on the competitiveness and sustainability of tourism destinations, structures and services. Benchmarking results along with capitalization of previous project results and wide consensus building of the AITTP transnational networked tourism community, will provide the material for a Strategic Agenda for Innovation in Tourism for ADRION macroregion and relevant action plan. The capitalization of this Agenda and Action Plan is relevant to their uptake by both policy makers in the public sector in the area, integrating policy recommendations to their implementation of regional measures and actions, and tourism structures and services in the public or private sector, taking into account investment priority guidelines for their future investments. This uptake will also contribute to the programme result indicator by increasing the capacity of both the public and private sector in the area to develop a lasting regional tourism innovation system.

Thematic information

Innovation capacity and awareness-raising Tourism

Specific Objective: Support the development of a regional Innovation system for the Adriatic-Ionian area

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΔΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ

Address: NEO Patron-Athinon 32 & Amerikis str 32, 26441 Patras, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pde.gov.gr

Total budget: EUR 134 268.38

ERDF budget: EUR 114 128.12

Ένωση Ξενοδόχων Αχαΐας

Name: Ένωση Ξενοδόχων Αχαΐας

Address: Kapsali 9, 26223 Patras, Greece

Legal status: public

AKADEMIA E STUDIMEVE ALBANOLOGJIKE

Name: AKADEMIA E STUDIMEVE ALBANOLOGJIKE

Address: Sheshi “Nënë Tereza” 3, 1000 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Distretto Turistico del Gran Sasso

Name: Distretto Turistico del Gran Sasso

Address: Viale della Vittoria, 67023 Castel Del Monte (AQ), Italy

Legal status: public

Αθηνά - Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Καινοτομίας στις Τεχνολογίες της Πληροφορίας, των Επικοινωνιών και της Γνώσης

Name: Αθηνά - Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Καινοτομίας στις Τεχνολογίες της Πληροφορίας, των Επικοινωνιών και της Γνώσης

Address: Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou 151, 151 25 Maroussi Athens, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.athena-innovation.gr

Total budget: EUR 155 731.62

ERDF budget: EUR 132 371.88

Provincia di Rimini

Name: Provincia di Rimini

Department: Tourism and European Policies Office

Address: Corso d’Augusto 231, 47921 Rimini (RN), Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.provincia.rimini.it

Total budget: EUR 110 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 94 137.50

RRA Zeleni kras, d.o.o.

Name: RRA Zeleni kras, d.o.o.

Address: Prečna ulica 1, 6257 Pivka, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rra-zk.si/en

Total budget: EUR 110 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 93 500.00

Ustanova za razvoj kompetencija, inovacija i specijalizacije Zadarske županije

Name: Ustanova za razvoj kompetencija, inovacija i specijalizacije Zadarske županije

Address: Trg 3 bunara 5, 23000 Zadar, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.inovacija-zadar.hr/

Total budget: EUR 109 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 92 650.00

Grad Mostar

Name: Grad Mostar

Address: Hrvatskih branitelja bb,, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mostar.ba

Total budget: EUR 90 000.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 76 500.00

ALBANIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

Name: ALBANIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

Address: Sami Frasheri Street 10Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 90 000.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 76 500.00

Alma Master Studiorum-Universita di Bologna

Name: Alma Master Studiorum-Universita di Bologna

Department: CAST - Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism of the University of Bologna, Rimini Campus

Address: Via Zamboni 33, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turismo.unibo.it/

Total budget: EUR 110 440.00

ERDF budget: EUR 93 874.00

Consorzio Punto Europa Teramo

Name: Consorzio Punto Europa Teramo

Address: Via A. De Benedictis 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.copeteramo.it

Total budget: EUR 145 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 123 250.00

RRA Zeleni kras d.o.o

Name: RRA Zeleni kras d.o.o

Address: Prečna ulica 1, 6257 Pivka, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rra-zk.si/en

Total budget: EUR 110 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 93 500.00

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Association of Achaia Hoteliers

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Academy for Albanian Studies

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Tourist District of Gran Sasso

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Athena - Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communications and Knowledge Technologies

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Province of Rimini

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RDA Green Karst, Ltd

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Institution for development of competences, innovations and specialization of Zadar County

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City of Mostar

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Fondi Shqiptar I Zhvillimit

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University of Bologna

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Consortium European Point Teramo

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REGION OF WESTERN GREECE

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RDA Green Karst, Ltd.

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Summary

Project name (EN): Innovation in Tourism in the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion

Project acronym: InnoXenia

Project start date: 2018-01-01

Project end date: 2020-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 055 190.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 896 911.50

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 743 911.50.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 153 000.00.

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Presentations

Infographics: First call for project proposals

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

InnoXenia kickoff meeting in Pyrgos, Greece

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Description: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2018-10-22

Languages: en

Innoxenia Postojna 10.07.2019

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2019-07-10

Languages: en

IPA Transnational Conference Tirana, Albania

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2019-07-22

Languages: en

Innoxenia Video

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2019-10-24

Languages: el

Innoxenia Presentations Rimini

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://innoxenia.adrioninterreg.eu/

Publication date: 2021-02-13

Document date: 2019-10-24

Languages: it

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

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2025-10-15

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1 025 / 1 025 (100%)

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