Scientific Tourism

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

Description

Description (EN):

This project focuses on creating a new form of tourism called scientific tourism (SCITOUR). The project will develop the SCITOUR concept, guidelines, model products and a SCITOUR brand, as well as digital infrastructure for marketing, information distribution and network communication. The Arctic is increasingly becoming a popular tourist destination. The trend is towards more free independent travellers (FIT) and cruise tourists, who find their way to even the most remote places. The FIT trend is supported by different sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb, making it possible for ordinary people to sell accommodation services and now also tourism experiences. This trend, and emerging digital solutions for tourism experiences, opens up new possibilities for developing tourism services in even the most remote parts of the NPA programme region. The sharing economy platforms provide a great opportunity for people in remote areas to diversify their economic income. The SCITOUR project intends to exploit these new opportunities and help small tourism companies in remote locations to create new products and to market themselves in a new and productive way. The SCITOUR project's main idea is to create a new niche of tourism that has a strong appeal to tourists who are curious and want to combine exceptional experiences and, importantly, learning about what they see during their trip. The initial goal is to create a new scientific tourism brand that has a transnational and universal appeal, that also answers the challenges of the current post-truth phenomena, where scientific facts are questioned. The project will be conducted and lead by professionals in tourism and science communication, in cooperation with the tourism and business field. The main focus of this development project is on existing micro-companies and SMEs, but the work will be oriented towards supporting startups in the future.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Awareness of business opportunities beyond local markets among SMEs.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main result of the project is the launch of an operational scientific tourism concept and a supporting network to cluster existing and future tourism SMEs and micro companies in their common effort to achieve greater market reach through this new and innovative tourism niche. The main objective of the project, to facilitate a greater market reach for the SMEs and micro-companies in remote and sparsely populated areas, is achieved through 2 project specific work-packages focusing on different sub-objectives. The first sub-objective is to develop and test a universal and transnational concept of scientific tourism that incorporates science into tourism experiences. This sub-objective includes guidelines for sustainable scientific tourism and 4 different SCITOUR models. The second sub-objective is to create transnational marketing strategy, marketing models and the branding concept for the scientific tourism network. A strong focus will be on the digital revolution of tourism marketing through digital service providers like AirBnB and other digital sharing economy platforms. The project will benchmark and develop a common strategy on how remote micro companies and SMEs best can utilize these new digital tools, to achieve a greater market reach. A key part of the marketing efforts is the segmentation of tourists visiting the Arctic, to enable better targeting and development of the scientific tourism products.

Thematic information

Tourism

Specific Objective: Greater market reach beyond local markets for SMEs in remote and sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: University of Lapland, Arctic Centre

Department: Arktikum Science Centre

Address: P.O. Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.arcticcentre.org

Total budget: EUR 401 879.97

ERDF budget: EUR 261 221.98

University of Lapland, Multidimensional Tourism Institute

Name: University of Lapland, Multidimensional Tourism Institute

Department: Multidimensional Tourism insititute

Address: Viirinkankaantie 1, 96300 Rovaniemi, Finland

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://matkailu.luc.fi

Total budget: EUR 172 900.00

ERDF budget: EUR 112 385.00

Greenland National Museum

Name: Greenland National Museum

Department: Museum

Address: Hans Egedesvej 8, 3900 NUUK, Greenland

Legal status: public

Website: http://en.nka.gl

Total budget: EUR 84 599.72

University of the Highlands and Islands

Name: University of the Highlands and Islands

Department: The Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research (CRTR), West Highland College

Address: Ness Walk 12B, IV3 5SQ Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/centres/recreation/

Total budget: EUR 194 649.70

ERDF budget: EUR 126 522.30

Háskóli Islands - Rannsóknasetur á Hornafirđi

Name: Háskóli Islands - Rannsóknasetur á Hornafirđi

Department: Hornafjordur Research Center

Address: Litlubru 2, IS 780 HORNAFJORDUR, Iceland

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://rannsoknasetur.hi.is/hornafjordur

Total budget: EUR 213 520.00

ERDF budget: EUR 128 112.00

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University of Lapland, Multidimensional Tourism Institute

Scientific Tourism

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Greenland National Museum

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University of the Highlands and Islands

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University of Iceland - Hornafjordu Research Center

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University of Lapland, Arctic Centre

Scientific Tourism

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Summary

Project name (EN): Scientific Tourism

Project acronym: SCITOUR

Project start date: 2020-05-01

Project end date: 2022-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 067 549.39

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 628 241.29

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 63.91%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 628 241.29.

Third-country contribution: Greenland: EUR 54 989.82 (ERDF equivalent only)

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

SCITOUR Network Model

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://scitour.interreg-npa.eu/

Publication date: 2023-11-08

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

SCITOUR Network Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://scitour.interreg-npa.eu/

Publication date: 2023-11-08

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

T1.2.1. Review of Scientific tourism - Concepts and Products

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://scitour.interreg-npa.eu/

Publication date: 2023-11-08

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

T1.3.1 Scientific tourism - Product model

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://scitour.interreg-npa.eu/

Publication date: 2023-11-08

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

T1.3.1. The underlying pedagogical approach for developing SCITOUR products

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://scitour.interreg-npa.eu/

Publication date: 2023-11-08

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

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2023-11-02

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779 / 779 (100%)

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