04/07/2018 News

Kick-off meeting of CI - Novatec Project

The Kick-off meeting of the project CI-NOVATEC - Customer Intelligence for inNOVAtive Tourism Ecosystems, co-funded for 867.000 euro by the Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme 2014-2020, will be held on 5-6 July in Patras (Hotel Astir Palace).

The Region of Western Greece is the lead beneficiary of this project in cooperation with two greek partners, the University of Patras – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Region of Epirus and two Italian partners the Apulia Region – Department Economy of Culture, Tourism & Territory and the Chamber of Commerce of Bari. Associated partners are the Chamber of Achaia and the Chamber of Commerce of Brindisi.

CI-NOVATEC project, financed under Priority Axis 1 – Innovation and Competitiveness, with a budget of about 867 thousands euro focuses on Local Tourism Clusters (LTCs), which consist of geographically concentrated SMEs, providing services to the same customer i.e. the arriving visitor, and may belong to various market sectors i.e. Tourism, Creative Industry, Agrofood, Commerce, Leisure, Transportation.

This project aims to develop a mobile application and a data management system, by using ICT tools to collect visitor data and applying Big Data Analysis in order to categorize, analyze and conceptualize them.

Info:

Konstantina Lantavou – RoWG – Communication Manager , k.lantavou@pde.gov.gr, tel. +30 2613 613636

Puglia Region - Joint Secretariat Communication Officer

Carmela Sfregola, tel. +39 3493916007, c.sfregola@regione.puglia.it, press@greece-italy.eu, www.greece-italy.eu