Description
Description (EN): The overall objective of PAN is a growing attraction and awareness of arctic nature and its unique phenomena in tourism market. This would result in an increasing number of tourists, higher income in the local economy, and better employment rate in the tourism sector along the northern most part of Green Belt of Fennoscandia. The concrete outputs of the project include permanent exhibitions in nature centres, nature observation bases, and audio-visual shows. Target groups are tourism entrepreneurs, tourists, pupils, students and local people in the Barents area in Russia, Norway and Finland
Read more Achievements (EN): Connecting nature and tourism through workshops for entrepreneurs and managers of nature protection areas. LUAS has accumulated expertise through the workshops arranged in PAN-project. That is capital for the future workshops they will be arranging. Metsähallitus experiences from LUAS’s workshops in Salla and Saariselkä is in nutshell, that it is important to analyse and survey the common customers with tourism businesses. There is aim to arrange similar kind of get-togethers as part of working in the future also. Nibio Svanhovd collected the results from LUAS’s workshop in Norway, and the results will be used when developing the Visitor point Gjøken from summer 2023 on. Nature observation bases in Salla are to be used by individual tourists, tour operators and local people. The local businesses have not yet wrapped up guided packages/services around the observation bases, but they are guiding tourists there. VisitSalla will use nature observation bases actively in their marketing. The plan for reducing the light pollution in Sallatunturi tourism area contains detailed calculations on required lights and techniques for future usage. The cost for renewal of lights was too high to be accomplished within the project. But there is aim to execute the plan later on. Restoration of old log buildings for information and guiding purposes in Gjøkhotellet in Øvre Pasvik, NO. The establishment of Visitor Point Gjøken will be important in the future for the locals, the tourist businesses and for nature dissemination done by the Visitor Centre of Øvre Pasvik National Park. This is a place for experience, activities, and information. Visitor point is open for everybody. Both Nibio and Øvre Pasvik National Park will carry on using the project’s results. New educational materials. It is seen by LUAS, that sustainable tourism is a core concept in their degree programme in tourism, and thus the whole educational material is useful in several study units. The online educational material is maintained, used and updated by the teachers. The online educational material has already been utilized in project time. The educational material is meant for nature-based tourism entrepreneurs, municipalities and tourism destinations, organizations managing nature protection areas and nature centres, students as well as anyone interested in developing nature-based tourism. The materials can be used for example as orientation and educational material, in developing and planning concepts for nature-based tourism services and in strategic business and concept planning. The educational material will be utilized also in other projects related to nature-based tourism and concept planning. In a similar way Vasatokka's educational mobile game is a very tightly part of Youth Centre's work with youth. Metsähallitus made three different educational materials. There is phenological calendar with different tasks complemented with gnome’s letter for each month in Inari, Skolt and Northern Sámi languages. Material was delivered to schools and kindergartens on a monthly basis through a mailing list during project implementation time. Now the materials are been formulated into publications which are to be located in metsa.fi -website for future free usage. Metsähallitus will actively market the publications to schools and kindergardens operating in Sámi languages. Second material is Mountain bikers’ etiquette to national parks. This material has an open lay-out, which can be updated and adopted by any national park. During the project time the material was tailored for Urho Kekkonen and Pyhä-Luosto national parks in Finnish and English. After project ended, the southern national parks in Finland added contents in Swedish to the layout. The theme of the etiquette is very actual as the number of bikers grows constantly. There will be active contacting towards bikers and rental shops in the national parks and in their vicinity made by Metsähallitus staff in the coming years. Hiking game of Pyhä-Luosto national park in visitor centre Naava is a permanent part of the exhibition. Hiking games is playful and interactive content which communicates important topics about sustainable recreational use of national parks. Travelling exhibition about Khibiny. INEP in Russia, Nibio in Norway and Metsähallitus in Finland have their own national copies of the travelling exhibition. The good experience from ABCGheritage - Our common Arctic Biological, Cultural and Geological heritage -project guided partners to make their own copies for easing the exhibiting and increasing the effectiveness of addressing people. Nibio and Metsähallitus are storing the exhibition, and when times should change and nature protection could build new bridges for cross-border cooperation, the travelling exhibition could be used again. Permanent exhibitions in visitor centres. Visitor centres are sights as such, and exhibitions are important part of centres’ services. Metsähallitus has now new exhibitions in Salla Visitor centre and Urho Kekkonen national park’s customer service Kiehinen. Metsähallitus’s visitor centres in Lapland have a central role in the customer service provided for the hikers in national parks and to the tourists visiting the surrounding tourism area. Metsähallitus is proudly presenting and guiding visitors in the exhibitions also in the future. The new exhibitions at Visitor Point Gjøken in Norway will last for a long time and many guest will see it and learn from it every year. Audiovisual shows. Natural phenomena show made by municipality of Salla is shown in Karhunkierros visitor centre in Hautajärvi and in the auditorium of Salla visitor centre (prior known as Poropuisto) and it is also available in Youtube f.ex for tourist company use. The show is also available at Visit Salla -website and used actively by VisitSalla for marketing. AV-show made by Metsähallitus and NIBIO is available in the exhibition of Customer Service Kiehinen and at Visitor point Gjøken. Info-events for school children, youth, students and local people. Metsähallitus continues the cooperation with tourism businesses on a regular basis. There are existing and developing forums between Metsähallitus and tourism businesses operating in specific national parks. Marketing activities. Visit Salla’s good experience in making social media campaign is very likely resulting in futher marketing campaigns in Salla. Creating operational network as part of Green Belt of Fennoscandia initiative based on the network of nature and visitor centres of the nature protection areas and complemented with tourism businesses and other operators. Network along GBF will have only two countries – Finland and Norway – for the nearest future. Metsähallitus has active role for implementing cross-border cooperation with Norway. Hopefully Finnish and Norwegian partners would also find a perfect idea for cross-border cooperation in this field for future
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Website: https://www.metsa.fi/en/project/phenomena-of-arctic-nature-pan/
Expected Results (EN): Increased attractiveness of the Arctic Nature, new single attractions related to the natural phenomena, and more sustainable ways to utilize them
Expected Outputs (EN): Permanent exhibitions in nature centres, nature observation bases, and audio-visual shows. Product development connected to the natural phenomena.
Partners (9)
Lead Partner:
Metsähallitus, Parks & Wildlife Finland
Address:
Ratatie 11, 01301 Vantaa, Finland
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 625 446.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 156 361.50
ENI budget:
EUR 156 361.50
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Municipaly of Salla
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Name:
Municipaly of Salla
Address:
Postipolku 3, 98900 Salla, Finland
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 312 437.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 78 109.25
ENI budget:
EUR 78 109.25
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Lapin Ammattikorkeakoulu oy
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Name:
Lapin Ammattikorkeakoulu oy
Address:
Jokiväylä 11, 96300 Rovaniemi, Finland
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 267 676.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 66 919.00
ENI budget:
EUR 66 919.00
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The Board for the Övre Pasvik National Park
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Name:
The Board for the Övre Pasvik National Park
Address:
NIBIO Svanhovd, 9925 Svanvik, Norway
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 302 963.00
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Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi
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Name:
Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi
Address:
NIBIO Svanhovd, 9925 Svanvik, Norway
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 264 770.00
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Biotope AS
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Name:
Biotope AS
Address:
Krokgata 12, 9950 Vardø, Norway
Legal status:
private
Total budget:
EUR 85 437.00
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State Nature Reserve Pasvik
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Name:
State Nature Reserve Pasvik
Address:
Gvardeyskyi str. 43, 184420 Nikel, Russia
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 380 000.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 95 000.00
ENI budget:
EUR 95 000.00
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Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problem of the North
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Name:
Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problem of the North
Address:
Academgorodok 14, 184209 Apatity, Russia
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 346 896.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 86 724.00
ENI budget:
EUR 86 724.00
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Youth Centre Vasatokka
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Name:
Youth Centre Vasatokka
Address:
Angelintie 696, 99870 Inari, Finland
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 30 160.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 7 540.00
ENI budget:
EUR 7 540.00
