GIS applied to sustainable tourism: the GISST subproject

Born inside an European initiative called GRISI (Geomatic Regional Information Society Initiative), in which Abruzzi Region participates, the GISST subproject final intention, whose acronym means “WebGIS for Sustainable Tourism”, is to supply visitors, who are planning to spend their holiday or a day-off enjoying with nature and culture, with a mean for browsing touristic information looking effective and modern thanks to online maps. In this way touristic information will be accessible by everyone who has an internet connection and can use a common internet browser, technologies which nowadays have a very large diffusion. The entire system will be realized integrating all existing geographical data interesting for visitors, held by GISST partners, in one single geo-database.

The subproject, whose total economic value is 114 thousand euros, proposed and lead by Majella National Park, was co-financed with Interreg III C South Zone funds. GISST is one of the five project selected inside GRISI between all the European proposals received.

Another important objective, is to create a co-operation network between the partners, Majella (Italy), the Regional Tourism Committee of the Mid-Pyrene (France) and the Bértiz Natural Park (Navarre – Spain), for the diffusion and use of new technologies supporting the management of sustainable tourism.

The subproject produced several important results, the most important of that is a WebGIS application about tourism, available at http://www.gisst.eu/mappe, completely realized with open source and Inspire compliant technologies.