Sustainable hunting tourism - business opportunity in remote rural areas?
Synopsis:
The project will promote the development of sustainable hunting tourism that will diversify the economical activity of peripheral regions in Northern Europe based on the strengths of these areas. This will be done by developing the companies and the operational environment related to the sector. The project will focus on practical development and... More...
The project will promote the development of sustainable hunting tourism that will diversify the economical activity of peripheral regions in Northern Europe based on the strengths of these areas. This will be done by developing the companies and the operational environment related to the sector.
The project will focus on practical development and networking activities based on exchange of transnational information and expertise on hunting tourism with the aims of
reducing the obstacles for the entrepreneurship,
enhancing the activities of SMEs and
provoking discussion and raising awareness of the potential and challenges of hunting tourism based on the northern hunting cultures.
As part of the process the project will create sustainable models for hunting tourism and tools for managing sustainability in different institutional settings, which will be combined to the material package and training materials and used in creating the criteria for sustainable hunting tourism.
The overall objective of the project is to support the development of sustainable hunting tourism that will diversify the economic activity of peripheral regions in Northern Europe. To be able to reach the overall objective, the project has 6 sub-objectives, which are to: Develop and enhance sustainable and competitive national and transnationa... More...
The overall objective of the project is to support the development of sustainable hunting tourism that will diversify the economic activity of peripheral regions in Northern Europe.
To be able to reach the overall objective, the project has 6 sub-objectives, which are to:
Develop and enhance sustainable and competitive national and transnational business concepts that will meet the needs of selected customer groups and are based on hunting cultures of Northern Europe.
Develop the operational environment of hunting tourism by reducing the obstacles for the entrepreneurship and lowering the risk and threshold for start up companies in the sector without jeopardising the ecological and social sustainability.
Strengthen the co-operation between different interest groups (SMEs, landowners, administration, marketing operators, local communities and education sector) in developing hunting tourism nationally and transnationally
Strengthen the connections between actors in the hunting and tourism sectors nationally and transnationally
Evaluate the possibilities for cross-country co-operation to develop a ‘Northern brand’ for sustainable hunting tourism
Create and analyse knowledge required in directing future rural development and hunting in Northern Periphery area.
The project activities are designed to contribute to these objectives in a concrete level.
The project aims to find innovative solutions to transfer the activities of what are traditionally viewed as leisure pursuits to the business environment without damaging the social sustainability. The project outcomes can be classified into following cathegories: A) Theoretical (based on the theoretical approach) create sustainable business m... More...
The project aims to find innovative solutions to transfer the activities of what are traditionally viewed as leisure pursuits to the business environment without damaging the social sustainability. The project outcomes can be classified into following cathegories:
A) Theoretical (based on the theoretical approach)
create sustainable business models for hunting tourism in different institutional settings
develop tools (models and guidelines) for managing social, ecological and economical sustainability at the local and SME level.
produce a material package for the internet, which will be transferred to training material and pilot courses (e-learning and face to face learning) in national languages of the participants.
B) Ethical:
produce the criteria for sustainable hunting tourism based in northern hunting culture, which will serve as a tool to harmonise the significant quality variations within the existing SME networks in the sector
establish transnational operations due to the harmonised quality base.
C) Practical:
new/improved transnational products to the sector as part of sustainable business concepts. The aim is to create up to 3 new or improved innovative hunting tourism products per country as a result of the work of SME development groups.
develop a forum for SME interaction and co-operation in the SME development groups (up to 4), reference groups (one in each country).
evaluate the potential for joint brand of Northern hunting tourism.
contribute to the development of the operational environment of hunting tourism sector by producing objective information (internet material, publications, articles) as well as increasing the awareness of the interest groups and actors on the potential of hunting tourism (seminars, publications, articles, newsletters).
raise crucial issues to the public discussion (seminars, publications, articles) related to the sector.
increase the expertise of the actors related to the sector in different levels (pilot courses, internet material, seminars, reference groups, publications, articles).
All the project reports and publications can be found on www.north-hunt.org.
As a summary there are 3 different types of products and services, that will be developed: A) Theoretical (based on the theoretical approach) “By combining innovation solutions, the project will create sustainable business models for hunting tourism in different institutional settings as well as develop tools (models and guidelines) for ma... More...
As a summary there are 3 different types of products and services, that will be developed:
A) Theoretical (based on the theoretical approach)
“By combining innovation solutions, the project will create sustainable business models for hunting tourism in different institutional settings as well as develop tools (models and guidelines) for managing social, ecological and economical sustainability at the local and SME level.”: The information gathering for these models is on-going or finalised. Also the most feasible approach to create the needed sustainable business models has been discussed and ideas developed further. The Canadian handbook Footsteps to Success –has been finalised. Also the national reports and transnational report related to social sustainability of hunting tourism and sales organisation survey have been finalised and published. The ppt-training material of these is under processing.
A material package for the internet, which will be transferred to training material and piloted in national languages of the participants: The basic decisions for the maintaining the material package after the project’s lifespan has been made. Also the look and logo for the project, which can be used also in the training material has been designed. The format of the training material has been discussed and data collection for it is on-going. The results of social sustainability and sales organisation surveys have been transferred into form of training material in some countries and the rest will do so during the next reporting period. The multimedia case studies have been partly finalised and translated and will be published during the next reporting period.
B) Ethical
The criteria/common understanding for sustainable hunting tourism based in northern hunting culture. The aim is to create the common criteria/understanding for Northern areas: The reference groups and SME development groups have been engaged to the criteria work and the first opinions on the framework for the developing the hunting tourism sector has been collected together from all countries and partly analysed. The criteria needs of SMEs have been mapped out and SME dev groups have been engaged to the process. The format of criteria has been discussed. In addition the existing criteria concerning hunting tourism sector in all partner countries have been analysed and common draft criteria has been created together with SMEs. It has been commented by the ref. groups and dev. groups and by the seminar audience from the project’s second international seminar (May 2010 Scotland).
The project's reports, surveys and other material in English and national languages can be found on the project's website www.north-hunt.org.
NOTE! The 3rd and final international conference of the NorthHunt project:
The focus of the conference is entrepreneurship aspect of hunting tourism and one of the conference days will be dedicated to the business development of hunting tourism. The conference will also publish and facilitate discussion of all project results: the three pillars of sustainability (ecological, social and economic) and practical development.
Priority: 1. Promoting innovation and competitiveness in remote and peripheral areas Objective: i. Innovation, networks and competitiveness Theme: Tourism, recreation, cultural heritage, languages
Total Budget: € 1 127 151 Total Funding Request: € 645 701
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