All 15 teams in the SPOT consortium have accomplished the whole program for the three years of project realization. Just a few project deliverables have been re-scheduled due to the limitations exposed by COVID-related restrictions and the impossibility to implement the fieldwork at a full scale. The changes have been agreed upon with the Project Officer and did not affect the implementation of the whole research program by the end of the project in December 2022.
The SPOT project team provided continuous dissemination, and communication but also exploitation of the results as soon as the activities and tasks were completed. The progress is possible to follow through three periodically released Newsletters covering the main results and actions during the last three years. In particular, starting from introducing the project and informing interested parties about the achievements of the first year, later on, focused on a summary of four specialized workshops and the SPOT Symposium. The Newsletter introduced the series of Thematic and Case Study Policy Briefs produced by the work packages and individual teams as well. This was followed by the segment of Case study news and a comprehensive list of conferences and events, in which individual teams disseminated the results of the project. The Newsletter listed also the publications produced and the media appearances by individual teams, including a summary of other scientific results related to the topics of the SPOT project. Significant importance was given also to the Web-based Resource Centre, which is part of the SPOT project homepage. It is a tool designed to provide information for scientists, policy-makers, stakeholders, NGOs and practitioners in the field of cultural tourism. The Resource Centre contains a rich database of external sources, a list of project research results and a compilation of information related to 15 case study areas. For those that seek to acquire more knowledge on cultural tourism in general and in the case study areas the collection of external sources and the case study area map serves as a junction point to information. The collection of good practices helps to gain insight into successful cultural tourism policies and development programs. The SPOT team completed or was involved in the following activities during the three years: Partners organized 9 international conferences and 28 Workshops, produced 46 press releases, published 44 scientific and popular publications, organized 5 exhibitions, 37 trainings, contributed 136 information to Social Media and more information can be found in the Project final report. Besides, the SPOT team have produced and updated a detailed Data Management Plan and implemented all eight Ethical Requirements for social studies under H2020.
