Project description
User-friendly eco-info for tourists
The EU’s tourist market relies on accurate and targeted information related to weather, climate and environment. The EU-funded WeCENT project addresses many EU tourism policy challenges related to competition and advanced technology. Its aim is to develop innovative environmental products for the tourist industry for free and commercial distribution. The project will measure user interests on environmental particularities, select and determine relevant climate and environmental information based on site, season and leisure activities, and translate Earth observation data into user-friendly information delivered to the user in a compact and timely form. The results of the project will provide innovative information to tourism actors and open new spaces for innovative applications based on satellite data.
Objective
The proposed research aims to fill a niche in the weather/climate/environment information tailored to the usual tourist
interests, in the same time reaching beyond the conventional exploitation paths of Earth Observation data. The proposal
addresses several challenges identified by EU policy in tourism - economic competitiveness, technological challenges,
markets and competition – and focuses on the development of innovative environmental products for the tourism sector,
including a framework for their free/commercial delivery. The specific research objectives, each leading to a novel result, are
as follows: (1) quantify user interests related to environmental features for 4 destination types (novelty: basis for
development of a new index for rural areas); (2) select and shape relevant climate and environmental information based on
site-, season- and leisure activity specifics (novelty: fine-tuned, individualized information); (3) translate EO data into friendlyto-
use information (novelty: EO products adapted for tourism); (4) deliver it to the user in a compact and timely manner
(novelty: user-fitted communication form). The research work toward these objectives will involve literature reviews,
questionnaires, processing climate data into specific tourism and bio-meteorological indices, processing and ‘packing’ of
satellite products employing a user-oriented formulation, as well as a strong component on stakeholders involvement. At
career level, the work will allow to build a unique scientific expertise comprising interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research
capabilities and transferable aptitudes, to be further exploited through existing and new collaboration projects and networks.
The scientific results will lead to development of innovative downstream integrated information addressing tourism actors,
new directions for innovative applications of satellite-based information in the day-to-day life, knowledge conversion into
products and services.
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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30123 Venezia
Italy
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