Häme University of Applied Sciences in Finland is strongly engaged in tourism development and promotion in the region, as a major player in realising touristic projects. Experiences in a recent project on digitizing nature trail in the Finnish forest aimed at improving accessibility to the beautiful Finnish nature, with topics like forest yoga, edible plants or improving your scout skills. In the BalticMuseums Xchange online session „Lessons Learned in the DigiTrail project and new project challenges”, Ms. Heidi Kerkola (project manager), Mr. Antti Juntunen (technical development and implementation in DigiTrail project) and Ms. Kirsi Sippola (tourism development team) spoke about the results their project and the obstacles e.g. decision on technology to be taken, how to promote the app and how to maintain it in the long run. The app is open source and ready to be used by other regions.
