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MED-ITOURProposal for a project in the Eumedis
Programme Emanuele Roccatagliata -
GISIGEnrico Da Molo - Genoa MunicipalitySommet
des Villes de la Mediterranée Genova, October 2000
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Programme EUMEDIS

• Euro-MEDiterranean Information Society
• Pilot Projects in the field of Multimedia Access
  to Tourism and Cultural heritage (sector 3)

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SubjectTourism exploitation of cultural
heritage supported by IT tools
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• Backgroundthe need a tool to understand,
  observe and present the Mediterranean cities and
  their regional context now and along their
  historical development .the userthe tourist
  willing- to understand better what is going to
  visit - to have tools to tailor her/his trip
  along the space and along the time in
  different trips linked together (the
  tailor-made grand tour).

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Keypoints

• Mediterranean heritage
• Town and landscape
• Tourism
• Tailor-made grand-tour
• IT tools
• Maps and Geographical Information

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The proposed answer

• MED-ITOUR
• Culture and TOURism in the MEDiterranean regions
  supported by IT tools

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Objectives

• to provide tourism and tourism operators with
  basic tools to read the urban and territorial
  reality of the Mediterranean towns and of their
  regional context structure, location and form,
  historical development, mutual relationship
  between the town and its countryside.
• to set up also an integrated and synergetic
  presentation of the partner regions on the
  tourism market.

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Implementation

• user-friendly tools always with a strong
  confirmation to be found and demonstrated onto
  the objects and onto the form of the town and
  of its landscape.
• multimedia maps to grasp the spatial dimension,
  easily understandable.
• parallel development in all the partner Countries
  an immediately exploitable product.

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Expected results and fall-out

• a tourism multimedia guide for all the areas
  involved into the project
• easily spreadable on the web and offering proper
  tools to understand character and structure of
  the city, as well as a more traditional tourism
  information.
• an innovative approach in the design and
  promotion of the tourism offer.
• the start-up of a Mediterranean tourism system,
  with synergetic and interacting regional actors.

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PROPOSER

• Municipality of Genoa
• Expressions of interest have been transmitted by
  Cyprus, Egypt, Libanon, Palestine
• GISIG (Geographical Information Systems
  International Group)

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Deadline for submittalL22nd January 2001
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Important to be noticedApplications must be
accompanied by the following supporting
documents, namely(1) Statutes and/or articles
of association of the applicant and of each of
the partners(2) Most recent annual report and
accounts of the applicant and the
partners(3) CVs of the core project
managers(4) Memorandum of Understanding signed
by the applicant and all partners
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Steps and outcome (tentative)

• - Partnership set-up - Project guide for the
  partners
• - Data collection and preliminary analysis -
  Multimedia Data of Cultural Heritage
• - Regional cases analyses - Multimedia site
  description
• - Systematisation and integration - Integration
  document to describe the various areas
• - Multimedia implementation - Website and CD-ROM
  (whole project, regional cases)
• - Tourism exploitation - Release to the tourism
  operators
• - Integration with the tourism functional
• sites logistics - (hotels, transport,
  local infos)
• - Diffusion - Project final workshops

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Virtual Permanent Conference
MED-ITOUR
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• Further discussion for
• MED-ITOUR
• MEDBRIDGE-GI
• GISIG Meeting at 1700 Room of the Urban
  Governance Workshop
• All interested organisations are invited

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!
Geographical Information Systems International
Group