ITIC operated through six contact centres which are located in project partners’ countries. Therefore six contact points published Public call for innovative solutions in sustainable tourism in Adriatic-Ionian Region. It was a call for selection of two best innovative ideas that will support and foster the development of sustainable tourism in the Adriatic-Ionian Region. Eligible categories for this call were innovative products (new or significantly improved product), innovative service (new or significantly improved service) and innovative business model or business process (new or significantly improved business model or process, that is different from the existing ones and is an innovative way of performing business to achieve higher added value of the company or process). Public call was opened for everyone who had an idea that could contribute to the development of sustainable tourism and who wanted to test his/her idea on the Adriatic-Ionian market: individuals, non-profit and profit organizations, SMEs, public authorities, tourism organizations, etc. After collection of innovative ideas, AITIC Council chose two best innovative ideas (Move handy and Impact tourism) from applied ideas in six contact centres. Best innovations evaluation events are project activity which has the goal to present best innovation ideas to interested public in countries of Adriatic-Ionian region and collect feedback information about idea’s replicability and development potential in all countries of Adriatic-Ionian region. Best innovations evaluation events were organized in the form of workshops stimulating real world situation. One Best innovations evaluation event was organized by each Contact point therefore, in total 6 events organized.
