The Reap Software Portfolio
Existing Reap Users
Introducing Reap Tourism
REAP Tourism is a software tool designed to calculate the environmental footprint of visitors to any area in the UK. The basic foundation of the tool is a calculator which uses day visitor and staying visitor data combined with data on visitor expenditure, accommodation choices and recreational behavior for any user-defined area.
At a more advanced level REAP Tourism also provides users with the means to build scenarios, create footprint profiles for different visitor types and estimate the footprint of specific events.
This means that a user can:
- Measure the environmental impact of visitor behaviour in a consistent fashion at all spatial levels
- Identify areas of visitor behaviour with a high environmental impact
- Demonstrate the impact of attracting different types of visitor to your area
- Explore the impact of promoting particular visitor behaviours
- Understand the impact of tourism in the context of lifestyles as a whole
REAP Tourism was designed through a collaboration between South West Tourism and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Version 1 of the software tool comes with 2006 data sets constructed for all districts, counties and DMOs within the South West of England. This copy of REAP Tourism is available for free to all agencies and organisations working within the South West of England.
Because REAP Tourism is essentially a calculator, as a user you can define both the area that you want to look at and the time period that you are interested in. You can collect new data that fits your purposes or adjust and update the existing data set.
Should you have any further questions about the software use and distribution please contact Anne Owen
Should you wish to find out about training opportunities or to discuss the use of REAP Tourism in the South West of England please contact Emma Whittlesea
For more information, download REAP Tourism Working Paper
The use of REAP in Scotland has been reviewed by the EPSRC ISSUES Project who look at urban sustainability.
"The Sustainable Urban Environments Programme is an EPSRC funded portfolio of research looking at ways of improving sustainability in the urban environment." (taken from www.urbansustainabilityexchange.org.uk, July 2010)
The full report titled "The Process of Knowledge Transfer from Researcher and Policy Maker to End-User" provides an analysis of the footprinting work done in Scotland and the use of REAP by Scottish Local Authorities. It is available here.
REAP Version 2
Please contact us to get your latest copy of REAP. Read the full news article by clicking more below to find out about the updates and what the type of licence you require.
See the REAP pages for details about licence costs and training packages.
REAP Petite has been updated and improved.
To download a free copy click here
If you are a license holder, contact SEI to get your new version.
SEI have just released a policy brief on Scotland's Footprint.
Our study has shown that Scotland's carbon footprint has grown by 11 per cent since 1992.
The figure includes greenhouse gases released overseas during the production of goods later consumed in Scotland and so is the most accurate gauge of the country's emissions to date.
While emissions generated in Scotland fell by 13 percent between 1995 and 2004, when trade is taken account, greenhouse gases rose by 11 per cent over the same period.
The full policy brief can be found on SEI's website.
An article has also be published in the Sunday Herald and can be found here.