Tourism Innovation

Boosting European touristic SMEs’ transition towards more intelligent, sustainable, resilient and circular models. The RESETTING project serves as a tool for relaunching European smart and sustainable tourism models through digitalization and innnovative technologies'. The integration of innovative digitally-driven solutions reduces unnecessary burdens, improves the quality of the tourism experience and contributes to the decarbonization of the tourism sector, as well asto a more inclusive economic growth - not only for small and medium-sized companies but also for the residents of the destinations. This project helps to improve competitiveness of 60 SMEs located in 5 European countries [...]

Dynamic information management approach for the implementation of climate resilient adaptation packages in European regions. The IMPETUS project aims at accelerating Europe’s climate change response and turning commitments into concrete action, developing innovative measures to make its regions more resilient. Moreover, the project explores the synergies between climate change mitigation, supporting regional socio-economic growth and stability, and transition of communities to ecological sustainability and resilience. Within the project, each of the 7 bioclimatic regions of Europe – Arctic, Atlantic, Boreal, Coastal, Continental, Mediterranean and Mountainous - host seven regional test beds where innovative solutions are piloted [...]

The Specialization and Competitiveness Project (PECT) Ebre Bioterritori promotes and facilitates the systemic transition (technical-economic and social), towards a model of sustainable exploitation of natural capital, articulating a stable innovation environment in the whole of Terres de l'Ebre (Baix Ebre, Monstià, Terra Alta and Ribera d'Ebre counties). The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union, within the framework of the ERDF Operational Program of Catalonia 2014-2020, an objective of investment in growth and employment. The systemic change driven by the project implies that the innovation structures are set up [...]

The Territorial Competitiveness Specialization Project (PECT in its acronym in Spanish) TurisTIC in family is a research and innovation initiative to transform and boost the tourism in the Costa Daurada and les Terres de l’Ebre, promoting its definition and gestion as familiar touristic destinations and transforming these areas in a reference European observatory and laboratory in technologies and familiar tourism tendencies. Eurecat, through its Technology Consultancy Department, develops two Operations within line 1 of technological drive for the development of research and technology in the tourism sector and its application in competitive products and services. Operation [...]