Participation in culture and cultural tourism

Share

Participatory Governance and Models in Culture and Cultural Tourism is the tile of the book that is now available for free download from the INCULTUM Training Portal.

The book has been produced in the frame of the INCULTUM project by the team at Matej Bel University.

“Participatory approaches and models in tourism are widely accepted as a criterion for sustainable tourism, as it helps decision makers maintain traditional lifestyles and respect community values.”

With these opening words, the incipit of the book immediately introduces the reader to one of the main pillar of the INCULTUM project, i.e. the connection between participation and innovative tourism.

The book is a real useful instruments for students, teachers and professionals who are interested to go deeper on the question of how participatory approaches can be beneficial for more harmonious governance, respectful development of territories and promotion of cultural tourism.

 

Leave a Reply


Related Articles

SECreTour at the 17th ECTN conference for smart and sustainable tourism
The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success. The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024. Together with very interesting communications from projects and local innovative initiatives, several representatives from very important bodies and organizatio...
Cultural tourism workshop at Euromed2024
The SECreTour project, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology, is organising on the 3rd of December 2024 the workshop about Cultural and creative tourism as a driver for sustainable development in the frame of the renowned Euromed conference. This workshop is designed for: Professionals, researchers, and practitioners in cultural tourism innovation The multidisciplinary community of experts involved in sustainable, en...
Supporting communities though digital cultural tourism
SECreTour project and its associated EUreka3D project participated in the Part 2 of the Webinar promoted by the  TExTOUR Project and organised by the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage Lab at Cyprus University of Technology. The webinar explored the potential use of digitised cultural heritage resources to boost cultural tourism, raise awareness about sustainability, and how to prepare for digitisation with the involvement of communities in the management and socio-economic develop...
New collaborations of SECreTour in Basel
The SECreTour project has established new collaborations with the University of Basel and Virtual Culture GmbH.   The Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary institution of the University of Basel. Its task is to coordinate and promote research, teaching and infrastructure for digitisation in the humanities and social sciences. It is also a central institution in Switzerland for the theory and practice of the digital humanities and offers a Master's programme and a Doctorat...