Tourism is important to the economic and social sustainability of many communities in the Northern Periphery Progamme area.

The aim of the project is to develop innovative, long term and sustainable solutions for transport services adapted to rural tourism areas in the Northern Periphery.

This will be done by implementing new and improved public transport and related information services:

• New tourist bus services, operated to meet local and seasonal demand (shuttle or flexible timetables) and integrated with long distance transport.
• Food delivery and recycling pick-up services to/from cabins and rental apartments
• User friendly web and mobile phone based transport information systems.

The services will facilitate development of tourism in the project areas whilst reducing carbon emissions and local congestion from private cars. The project results will be disseminated to the wider Northern Periphery through a website, newsletters and seminars, and a joint policy advice paper on transport planning in rural tourism areas will also be produced.