Facilitating access to watertourism activities

Project aims to facilitate watertourism by focusing on innovative solutions to access and use recreational waters, routes and products by all target groups (incl. disabled, seniors, families with children etc.), at the same time also supporting sustainable infrastructure, which controls and reduces anthropogenic impact of recreational activities. The project will build on available knowledge from the two projects (2013-2015 Est-Lat RIVERWAYS and 2023-2025 Lat-Lit WaterWays) and spread further the watertourism network providing more access to more target groups. Nowadays, the stereotype of water tourism being mainly used by fit and active part of population, is breaking down – user group has widened. Families with children, seniors are interested in watertourism options. This brings up the need to develop more accessible watertourism environment – develop all-target groups related multifunctional infrastructure with complex approach to services providing for full customer journey. Several pilot infrastructure objects will be developed in the project in Latvia and Estonia to improve access and create joint social innovation solutions for watertourism activities.