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Tourism Guide for Northern Periphery

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TG4NP = Tourism Guide for Northern Periphery
Developing smart phone services for visitors to Europe's Cool North

Project Status: Completed

Project Leader: Dr Caitriona Strain

EU Programme: Northern Periphery (INTERREG 4B)

Project Budget: €2,261,236

Start Date: Jun, 2010

Finish Date: Sep, 2013

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The aim of the project is to:

Deploy mobile smart phone digital services for use by visitors to Europe's Northern areas to support the continued development of the tourism industry, particularly in cultural and natural heritage destinations.

Specific objectives are to:

Establish a number of new smart phone visitor information services that enhance the visitor's experience in rural and remote areas.
Explore new digitally-mediated approaches to guide tourists through the different stages of their visit

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Partner)
Developingan integrated tourism promotion service for part of the North West crossborder region

Javier Areitioaurtena Gutierrez
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Greenland, Greenland
Greenland Tourism and Business Council(Partner)
Developing a mobile/web system to provide general visitor and walking tour services

Mads Lumholt
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Iceland, Iceland
Bifrost University(Partner)
Developing a mobile service to encourage visitors to shop in the local area

Emil Bjarni Karlsson
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Lapland, Finland
Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences(Partner)
Developing a system for supporting the ski business in an area or region

Riitta Alajärvi-Kauppi
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Luleå, Sweden
Luleå University of Technology(Partner)
Developing a mobile guided tour service for visitors to a world heritage site in the Lulea area

Lars Furberg
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North Karelia, Finland
Karelia University of Applied Sciences(Partner)
Implementing of Services

Timo Rui
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North Karelia, Finland
Regional Council of North Karelia(Partner)
Developing a gaming based mobile system use in an outdoor park.

Jarmo Heiskanen
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Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Ulster University(Partner)
Developing a mobile augmented reality service to be used to help visitors interpret historical sites

Helen Jackson
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Skellefteå, Sweden
Skellefteå Municipality(Partner)
Lead Partner for the project, but also developing a mobile app for fishermen for the region

Ellinor Berglund
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Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Western Norway Research Institute (WNRI) (Partner)
Developing a mobile system use for supporting walking visitors in the area

Ingjerd Skogseid

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West, Ireland

Western Regional Authority (Partner)
Developing a mobile system for walkers for ceratin trails in Irish West region

Mary Molloy

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Internationally sustainable, transferable and exploitable mobile tourism services based on participatory planning, which can be combined with modernizing technology.
Developing and upgrading technology used by tourism companies, inhabitants and users from sparsely populated areas.

The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

Mobile Tourism App - Iceland

Iceland - Bifrost University

The Hymany Way - East Galway

Galway - Galway County Council

Tourim in Sogn og Fjordane (Norway)

Sogn og Fjordane - Western Norway Research Institute (WNRI)

Tourist Guide in Donegal

Donegal - ERNACT Network

This e-service is directed at visitors and citizens. It's purpose is to Provide mobile information of interest to tourists. It is ainnovative because content is stored in a county-wide data repository which can be accessed by different organisations and end-user...

This e-service is directed at visitors and citizens. It's purpose is to Provide mobile information of interest to...

Tourist Guide in Kemi-Tornio - Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences

Lapland - Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences

Tourist Guide in Luleå

Luleå - Luleå University of Technology

Tourist Guide in North Karelia (Finland)

North Karelia - Regional Council of North Karelia

Tourist Guide in Northen Ireland

Northern Ireland - Ulster University

Location based and personalised services are at the core of the TG4NP project which developed and implemented tourism-related smart phone services.

Mobile technology has become an everyday tool for majority of people and advanced mobile networks have become available also in the most rural areas. Mobile phones are growingly used for retrieving information and experiences, and GPS satellite navigation has become a common feature in modern mobile phones. This development has created an excellent opportunity for rural tourism industry to guide and communicate with visitors in a whole new way.