CIT to develop tourism route between Cork and Arctic Circle

Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has been awarded a significant project to develop a new maritime tourism route between Cork and Arctic Circle areas of Norway.

The “Cool Route Coastline” is one of the most scenic cruising grounds globally. CIT has received funding valued at €1.26 million to develop a coordinated cruising route.

The Northern Peripheral and Arctic (NPA) Interreg VB Programme funds projects addressing transnational innovation, enterprise development and entrepreneurship across the programme territories covering southern and western Ireland, Northern Ireland, western and northern Scotland, Faroe Islands, western Norway, Iceland and Greenland.

The Cool Route – “Cruising Oceans on Latitudes above 51 degrees north” – was approved by the NPA Interreg Programme and will research all of the logistical, business, and marketing planning for the route which will support other maritime and shore-based tourism initiatives in intervening regions.

Dr Breda Kenny, head of the Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence at CIT will manage the overall project.