Around five and a half million people live in this area. The arctic climate, exotic midnight sun, dark polar nights, northern lights, cold winters, vast natural resources and diverse of cultural heritage offer both a fertile but also a challenging ground for tourism development.
The Barents Region is nowadays considered one of Europe's largest regions for inter-regional cooperation.
Barents Tourism Action Plan has been created to promote inter-regional tourism cooperation in the Barents Region. Inter regional tourism cooperation will help strengthen the attractiveness and accessibility and promote public awareness of different destinations situated in the Barents Region.
This Action Plan is based on extensive research, background material and expert consultations. Interviews were conducted among small- and medium-sized Barents tourism enterprises which located in Finnish Lapland, Swedish Lapland, Northern Norway, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.
Interviews provided critical information on the needs and expectations of tourism enterprises regarding tourism development in the Barents Region.
This Action Plan focuses on five key areas: cooperation, education and knowledge, accessibility and transportation infrastructure, product development and place identity.
These five key action areas have been identified as vital to promoting inter-regional tourism development in the Barents Region.
Barents Tourism Action Plan has been has been produced as a part of Barents tourism development project BART - Public-Private Partnership in Barents Tourism funded by European Union Kolarctic ENPI CBC program.
The Barents Tourism Action Plan was done in cooperation with Barents Euro-Arctic Joint Working Group on Tourism (JWGT).
Source: http://www.barentsinfo.org/Contents/Maps
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