Urban and Smart Island Tourism Destinations

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The main objective of the project is to develop two new island destinations, located in the urban twin city area of Helsinki and Tallinn, into a popular smart nature tourism destinations. The project activites will focus on two islands, Vasikkasaari in Helsinki and Aegna in Tallinn. Both islands will be developed into attractive nature tourism destinations taking their sensitive archipelago values strongly into account. For that reason the project will pilot new, innovative and smart solutions to both ensure nature protection in the locations, and at the same time to increase attractiveness of these islands. The smart digital solutions will also enhance participants'; experiences in these islands. During the project some construction work will also be carried out on the islands to ensure easy and enjoyable visit on the islands. The target groups of the project are both local and foreign visitors, as well as the cities in which the islands are located and which will benefit from both the increase in visitor numbers and also from the smart solutions in their environmental protection work in the islands. The long term objective of the project is with the increasing visitor numbers also to benefit the tourism and service business, and also to increase environmental awareness of the visitors and other stakeholders.

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