Heraklion OikoTrails EN

Heraklion OikoTrails (English Version)

Lesvos OikoTrails, Heraklion OikoTrails, Larnaca OikoTrails, Paphos OikoTrails.


The aim of the series of applications OikoTrails is to highlight the areas of Lesvos, Heraklion and Cyprus in a digital world that provides remarkable opportunities to users, to get information about the special environment of our islands . The nature and culture combined with new technologies offer an extremely interesting result .
Applications do not address to the " tourist " , but to the "guest " who wants to tour the place to explore and discover its beauties. These applications provide an insight on which you can build experiences ...
Become "Oikotravellers" .... follow our own paths in environmental and cultural wealth of Heraklion. The application contains routes in Heraklion.
The project aims at improving environmental and cultural resources of the areas of intervention, aiming at:
1.Rational utilisation and management of natural resources with environmental protection and respect for the carrying capacity.

2. Highlighting the island countryside as an attraction.

3. Preservation , promotion and networking of local -historical - cultural values ​​and resources with the environment and the current reality in the context of a high quality.

4. Enhance the prospects of development of special interest tourism and trekking, cultural tourism.

5. Participation, networking and extroversion of the areas.

6. Strengthening of human resources with specialised environmental education creating "green " consciousness in the economy, offering a set of routes with tourist interest in the chosen area as well as a reason for the organization of special seminars and events to raise environmental awareness