• The CulturalDeTour Program Accelerator will assist a total of 30 small or early-stage cultural tourism businesses from Spain, Slovenia, and Greece.

• For 6 months, from January to June 2024, the program, will provide participants with the skills needed to thrive in the sustainable cultural tourism industry.

A total of thirty emerging or small-sized cultural tourism companies will benefit from the CulturalDeTour Acceleration (CDTA) program, which will begin in January 2024. The selected companies will have the opportunity to strengthen skills critical to the growth and expansion of their businesses in the sector.

Of the 71 entries received, a total of 30 companies from Spain, Slovenia and Greece will participate in this initiative.  The companies bring diverse approaches and proposals within the field of cultural tourism. From initiatives focused on heritage preservation to innovative proposals in tourism experiences, these companies demonstrate an exceptional commitment to sustainability and innovation.

CDTA is a Creative Europe program in the framework of the CulturalDeTour project, a 6-month initiative that will start in January 2024. The accelerator uses the Earth-Centered Design methodology to drive innovation, sustainability, and business creation in the tourism sector through a design-driven process. The program will provide participants with the skills necessary to thrive in the sustainable cultural tourism industry.

New business models

The program promises to equip participants with the skills needed to thrive in the sustainable cultural tourism industry, with an emphasis on new business models, digitalization, technology, and sustainability through the Earth-Centered Design Methodology.

Participants will be able to benefit from a variety of resources to develop their businesses: four national workshops in the language of each participating country, two transnational workshops for cross-border understanding and collaboration, five hours of one-on-one mentoring on sustainability business modeling, access to industry experts for personalized guidance and advice, thematic courses and webinars from partner organizations, and networking to share best practices.

Selected companies

The Spanish companies that will participate in the CDTA program are:

Guía En Lanzarote

Baukunst Arquitectura y Patrimônio Virtual SLU

Viu els Ports

Integra-T Experience

Visitas Virtuales S.L.

Zwit Project

Excapic Experiencias Culturales S.L.

Sevilla con aluza

EIDOSD

DEL VIENTO Y RAICES SL

PLAY AND GO EXPERIENCE

PEPE SERRA MERCÉ

BE CURIOUS SL

Cluedux

Soca Bio-Art, S.L.

The Slovenian companies that will participate in the CDTA program are:

Zavod Ad Pontem

Hiša vina Andrejc

Vakog d.o.o.

Zavod Zeleni Žep – Green pocket Institute

Bravina d.o.o.

Domačija Škvor

Somapro d.o.o.

Vesela doživetja Tanja Vesel s.p.

JFDI d.o.o.

UI Turizem, Uršula Sreš s.p.

Vesna Merc s.p.

The Greek companies that will participate in the CDTA program are:FELEA GOODS LTD

Culture Hunters

Vedema

Ecomuseum Zagori

About Cultural DeTour

Creative Europe’s CulturalDeTour project, aims to use design-driven innovation and sustainability integration to drive collaboration and entrepreneurship in the cultural tourism sector, and create a strong cross-sector and transnational innovation network to enhance economic resilience during the recovery phase of COVID-19.

CulturalDeTour is the product of a unique collaboration between three heterogeneous but complementary partners from across the European Union: Envolve Entrepreneurship (Greece), Finnova (Spain) and Arctur (Slovenia).