Sustainable urban nature routes using new IT solutions

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Cities around the Baltic Sea are rich in natural and cultural resources. The cities are mainly well known for their built and historical districts but the cities around the Baltic Sea can also boast about the biodiversity richness and high value of nature in urban areas. Most of these urban nature areas are undeservingly poorly recognized even by the local inhabitants, not to mention tourists. Business and leisure tourism between Helsinki and Tallinn is very dense, which makes it reasonable to develop and adopt joint tourist attractions and products. The objectives of this project are to improve public recognition of natural tourist attractions in the two cities and to develop joint tourist attractions and products for sustainable nature tourism between Helsinki and Tallinn. The objectives will be reached by building a new common web portal and mobile applications for nature tourism and education in Helsinki and Tallinn, which includes all the urban nature areas for observing, learning about and enjoying nature. In addition new sustainable nature attractions in good nature-watching areas in Helsinki and in Tallinn will be developed.

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