The Network of Smart Tourist Destinations at national level, which is committed to promoting destinations as innovative tourist spaces, consolidated on a cutting-edge technological infrastructure, which guarantees the sustainable development of the tourist territory, accessible to all, facilitating the interaction and integration of the visitor with the environment and increasing the quality of their experience in the destination and improving the quality of life of the residents of each of them.
This working group, therefore, was created with the aim of supporting destinations and tourism companies in the application of innovation, both in the phase of basic and applied research, promoting experiments and prototypes among the members of the group, it will also have a market place for those solutions tested and with cases of use of good practices.
Lastly, it will be a meeting point for the territories that will dynamise territorial innovation, thus being able to enrich and implement the innovations to be applied.
The innovation roundtable arises from the need to share knowledge and is initially made up of three working blocks.
A. Innovations based on basic and applied research, experiments and prototypes.
a. Scientific, research, background, strategic maps, state of the art.
b. Ideation of solutions, production of results, prototypes and evaluation.
B. Market place, ecosystem of tested solutions
a. technology solutions tested in the market place
b. data and tourism intelligence
c. training academy
C. Territorial Innovation
a. new business models/start ups, entrepreneurial ecosystem.
b. organisational and process innovation
c. product innovation, marketing services
d. financing