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Tourist Guide for Northern Periphery (TG4NP)
Start date: Jun 14, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2013 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The aim of the TG4NP project is to support tourism industry of peripheral regions by enhancing the visitors experiences in cultural and natural heritage destinations with the help of multimodal mobile information services. Project will develop potential new approaches to efficient and sustainable management and utilisation of resources in natural and cultural heritage. The idea is to exploit the latest existing mobile and web technologies to address the information needs and to enhance the experience of the visitors in a new way. The created services will include multimodal (different modes of communication e.g. text, sound, pictures, videos…) guided tours for resorts and tourist services (accommodation, restaurants, programme services, events), as well as new kinds of service concepts, intelligent routing and interaction between enterprises and customers. The created services will add value to the sustainable tourism industry in the Northern Periphery by offering new kinds of experiences and service solutions for visitors. It will also create a sustainable way to utilise the rich cultural and natural heritage in the participating regions. Achievements: 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.Location based and personalized services are at the core of TG4NP; its promise is to implement and provide tourism-related value added mobile services across mobile and fixed networks and to develop design solutions that deliver performance on robust, scalable and accessible wireless services. The aim of the TG4NP project has been to support tourism industry of peripheral regions by enhancing the visitors experiences in cultural and natural heritage destinations with the help of multimodal mobile information services. Project has developed potential new approaches to efficient and sustainable management and utilisation of resources in natural and cultural heritage. The idea has been to exploit the latest existing mobile and web technologies to address the information needs and to enhance the experience of the visitors in a new way. The created services include multimodal (different modes of communication e.g. text, sound, pictures, videos…) guided tours for resorts and tourist services (accommodation, restaurants, programme services, events), as well as new kinds of service concepts, intelligent routing and interaction between enterprises and customers.Tourist GuidesEach partner has throughout the project worked on localised modules of the TG4NP services.By working on different localised modules in WP 3, we have been able to evaluate the results and produced an overall description on how to implement this service in other regions.More information is available under: http://www.tg4np.com/en/tourist-guides
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  • 59%   1 448 461,00
  • 2007 - 2013 Northern Periphery
  • Project on KEEP Platform
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