IKAT TOURISM https://www.ikatproject.com/ as part of the Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS), aims to contribute to the achievement of the updated tourism strategy put forward by the EC, following the conclusions reached by the Parliament and the Council pre-post pandemic for the European tourism industrial ecosystem, predominantly maritime and coastal in the Mediterranean area.
The primary outcome of the IKAT project will be a new specialized Euroclustering network to address the needs of SMEs in the EU tourism ecosystem incorporating business alliance partners from Africa and LatAm, regions with which the SME-EU share economic and sectoral interests. The business support services that the IKAT Euroclustering network will offer to SMEs in the tourism ecosystem [acceleration, innovation, digital and green adaptation, access to finance, and internationalization], were designed according to the level of regional vulnerability and their economic dependence on the tourism sector based on RIS3.
To better identify the needs of SMEs in the Mediterranean regional tourism ecosystems and plan the service offering accordingly, the IKAT project interviews vital stakeholders to carry out a SWOT analysis of Maritime and Coastal Tourism in different regions of Europe (EU), Africa (Tunisia and Morocco), and Latin America (LatAm).
In case you are a stakeholder in the tourism industry in Greece and in South-Eastern Europe, we kindly request your participation in the IKAT survey:
ONLINE SURVEY: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/IKAT_TOURISM-Interview-Round_1