In December, 1996, the European Commission, Directorate General XIV, Fisheries, granted the Danish-Irish project, REconversion from FIshery to TOURism (REFITOUR), Proposal No. 96/C 142/11, an amount of 50,000 ecus to be used for a pilot project in the summer, 1997. The following report is an analysis and description of the project phase from January-November, 1997.

The report has been written as part of the declarational obligations of projects funded by the Commission. But apart from that the report is also meant to benefit other possible projects of similar kind. Therefore, much effort has been put into trying to give the fullest possible account of the developments of the project, and of the experiences gained with the participating three sectors: the educational, the tourism and the fishery. It is the hope of the author that other innovative people or organisations will develop new, socially and environmentally sound projects within the ongoing changes of all three sectors.

All photos have been taken by Pia Rørbech, 1997

Ingeborg Svennevig, anthropologist