As a general rule, all the participants in the project agree to approximately the same conclusions concerning the implementation of the project REFITOUR. Their perspectives are of course different, and thus the causes they give and the conclusions they draw point in different directions - but from the same base. The project has broken the ice between the three sectors, and it is now possible for the people from the three sectors to imagine a beneficial cooperation among them. The REFITOUR vision, with all its components, shows the diverse character and potentials of a conversion from fishery into tourism.

The REFITOUR project with its adjustments and its limited range is a dynamic and basically reference point to the future possibilities of converting fishery into tourism. The educational sector has won considerable experience through the Sea and Coastal College, Djursland - an experience that has taught the people involved about the limited range of the educational sector, and of the unlimited abilities of the people that do choose to enroll themselves as students. The sector will need elaboration and to develop if it is to attract the fishermen; on the other hand, the guides that have been educated, have proven that they can fit into the REFITOUR vision.

The tourism sector has seen that there are people who will endure the roughness of the fishermens' sea, though they are not convinced that the number of these people is large enough to pay a vessel and its crew. The sector has been confirmed in the belief that tourists visiting a peninsula like Djursland are very interested in the sea. The implementation of REFITOUR during Summer 1997 suffered from a lack of information being included in the general information material prepared for tourists visiting Djursland. The deadline for this material is December of the preceding year, and at that time the REFITOUR vision had not yet been finalised.

The fishery sector had an opportunity to discuss their relation to their surrounding society. The rigged out fishermen have not participated in this debate, and their attitude towards the REFITOUR vision is unclear. With the project In Honour of the Fish the fishermen demonstrated that they do not live up to the general prejudges against them: they actually do like to talk to people, to show them their craftsmanship, and to tell them about the fishery, but they prefer to do it on land, in the harbour. REFITOUR and In Honour of the Fish gave them a unique opportunity to do this in an economically sensible way. This will always be a precondition for the fishermens' active involvement in any project, together with the fact that fishermen simply prefer to survive as fishermen.

On a European scale the tourism sector seems more predisposed to have and to fit into a unified approach, than the educational and fishery sector does. The tourism sector thus offers the most approriate field for exchange of experiences with tourists' interest in sailing with fishing vessels, in their willingness to pay and in their wishes for the content of the trips. At the same time the tourism sector, like the fishing sector, can benefit from innovations from other people, thinking along other routes than the traditional tourism scenarios.

From a tourism sector perspective, the REFITOUR project has by now made it possible to imagine on-board marine tourism activities departing from the fishing harbour. The season for ordinary tourists is rather short, two to three months during summer, and therefore the vessels will have to sail with anglers for the rest of the year in order to make a living. The REFITOUR vision is mainly an option for the fishermen that are considering to end their fishing. These fishermen and their vessels can then establish a niche in the trade harbour, where from they can take tourists out fishing. The conversion in itself will propably need economical support, but with the combination of visitors learning about the professional fishery and others angling for themselves - the trade will propably be economically viable.

The marketing of the tours must be an integrated part of the marketing of a local area, such as Djursland. When the actual season is running, brochures and posters should be widely distributed. The successful marketing of the tourist angling fishery will propably require a few years to be incorporated into the daily routines of the tourism bureaus and into the holiday plans of the tourists.

The fishery sector in itself can be expected to take some of the ideas from In Honour of the Fish and use them as part of their traditional fish days, possibly with public funding. The In Honour of the Fish project has resulted in a manual ready for use for harbours wanting to give their visitors a chance to learn how to filet fish and prepare it - and, most importantly, to have a talk with a fisherman or two.

The REFITOUR vision is dependent on the educational sector to continue. Both the tourism and the fishery sector orient themselves towards the traditional ways of earning an income. The educational, environmentally informational content of REFITOUR needs other input to persist. The educational sector needs to find allies that want to use more effort and money on developing tours with fishing vessels that have all the ingredients that a modern tourist - and not least the areas that he or she visits - might demand.