What did the project change?
JOHANN made the South Baltic area more attractive for small cruise ship tourism. JOHANN provided basic information about ports and designed visitors’ programs for short visits in the area.
What was the challenge?
Small cruise ship businesses did not plan travels to small cities in the South Baltic area, although the cities are quite attractive – some of their old towns are even registered as UNESCO world heritage sites. Basic information about the small ports was lacking, as well as a fitting visitor’s program for short visits in the area.
What did the project create?
JOHANN created necessary information to attract small cruise ship businesses to the small city ports in the South Baltic area.
Project Outputs
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Full project description
The project involves eight project partners: six project destinations (Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Szczecin, Karlskrona, Kalmar) represented by cities/ municipality/ tourism boards, supported by two partners from Germany (support in activities to be implemented in Rostock, Wismar and Stralsund) and Poland (responsible together with university for Szczecin destination). The partnership consortium is accompanied by ten associated partners (though 14 Letters of Commitment is provided), representing private cruise operators, port authorities, municipalities, tourism associations etc.
The overall idea of the project is to develop the South Baltic region as an attractive small cruise ships (SCS) destination with cultural and natural SCS heritage routes by laying down necessary provisions in the six selected destinations: Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Kalmar, Karlskrona and Szczecin. The project is going to develop all-round cruise routes/ packages for the private cruise operators (main target group).
The project’s activities are going to start with the project focusing on the small cruise ship destinations by developing heritage routes, follow with actions to improve the capacity of the local actors (both on water ‘side’ and land ‘side’) and by revitalising heritage of destination ports.
The main target groups are cruise operators, multipliers (media) and tourists; local actors related to regional tourism and port management as well as decision makers in the project cruise destinations (city administration, port authorities etc.).
