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HECTOR - HEritage and Cultural Tourism Open Resources for innovative training schemes related to the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
No full textThe HECTOR initiative aims at comparing practices and developing models to forecast the skills needs in cultural management related professions, as well as at designing, implementing and supporting effective coordination between the world of formal and not formal training (Universities, research centers, vocational institutions and organisations active in cultural heritage promotion). HECTOR intends to be in line with the EU general effort to invest on cultural and creative players with skills, competences and know-how that contribute to strengthening the cultural and creative sectors, including encouraging adaptation to digital technologies, testing innovative approaches to audience development and testing of new business and management models.
The project also addresses the complex issue of defining/identifying the strategic skills and reflect on transversal skills as an “ability to apply knowledge and use know-how to complete tasks and solve problems” (Cedefop 2010a: 109:110).
A state of the art analysis among the partners involved in the project will build up a common ground on the approaches adopted as well as a shared knowledge concerning training processes and training needs in organizations engaged in providing high-quality training on the cultural issues to academics and professionals.
Heritage management is a highly interdisciplinary field, involving methodologies and approaches from various disciplines: the capacity to predict future skills needed in this sector endowed with extraordinary potentialities and anticipate trends will allow to up-to-date competencies and professional profiles within a public and private context. Considered this, HECTOR will constitute a sound opportunity both to project partners and target groups to exchange practices, methodologies, approaches and tools to identify, define and reinforce the strategic skills required in the public and private training sector to better create synergies with the private sector, to maintain culture (also) as a driver for social and economic transformation
REPORT ON THE ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF THE RSA TOURISM RESEARCH NETWORK
No full textIn line with the aim of the
research network, the workshop has attracted papers focusing
on the relationships between
the enhancement and preservation
of cultural heritage
and tourism as a fundamental
driver for regional development.
In particular, the time
has come to give due recognition
to the rescaling processes
affecting heritage and tourism
destinations, intended both as
upscaling and downscaling.
Rescaling heritage and tourism
destinations can be seen as both
a strategy pursued by national
and regional agencies or as
unintended consequences of
the constant interplay between
an increasingly complex range
of stakeholders, including crossnational
institutions and local
communities
Turismo e dimore di scrittore, tra libri e lettere
No full textNel mondo della letteratura si assiste ad un appropriarsi dei suoi elementi materiali (dai libri alla casa dello scrittore..) come se fossero immateriali (l’immaginario dei luoghi) da parte di attori per i quali essa rappresenta una risorsa in grado da contribuire allo sviluppo territoriale. Proprio a partire dalla dimora dello scrittore, luogo della memoria colmo di significati, già considerata e valutata dagli specialisti di storia e letteratura, forte è l’interesse anche da parte delle comunità che considera questi elementi come un patrimonio da valorizzare e un mezzo per meglio rendere attrattivo il loro territorio.
Testimonianza del passato, dimora famosa ma anche luogo della propria intimità, la casa di uno scrittore è sommersa da un confondersi dei tempi e degli spazi, tra immaginari e ricordi personali. Essa è da considerarsi un’eterotopia, perché i livelli di lettura sono molteplici e potenzialmente coesistenti. La ricerca dell’autore aspira a comprendere il significato, o piuttosto, le variazioni di senso che assumono queste dimore di scrittore nell’incontro con gli immaginari e le pratiche turistiche diverse e in evoluzione. Attraverso confronti con i visitatori sulle loro aspettative, insieme anche ad uno studio delle annotazioni e osservazioni lasciate nei registri di commenti, l’autore va ad esplorare le percezioni e le emozioni del visitatore, in grado di svelare e mettere a fuoco un vasto immaginario tutto attorno alla dimora di scrittore, testimonianza della sua natura eterotopica. L’esperienza nasce e si forma sulla base di una triplice relazione tra autore, opera e luoghi, arricchendo la valorizzazione dell’opera e lo sguardo sul territorio grazie ad una dialettica tra turista e ciò che lo circonda tra materiale e immateriale
Il distretto come modello intersettoriale di sviluppo del territorio
Full text linkPartendo dalla descrizione del distretto industriale come modello di interpretazione della complessità territoriale, il presente saggio vuole fornire qualche spunto di riflessione sulla valenza scientifica di tale approccio nella sua applicazione ad altri settori dell’economia, rispetto a quelli più propriamente produttivi. La lettura del territorio e più precisamente delle potenzialità di sfruttamento efficiente delle sue risorse al fine di favorirne lo sviluppo, può passare attraverso l’applicazione di alcuni degli aspetti fondamentali del distretto industriale ad aree di interesse che recentemente hanno visto aumentare la loro importanza relativa nelle scelte di politica economica: la cultura ed il turismo. Saranno posti quindi in evidenza i punti di forza e di debolezza di questo modello nelle sue implicazioni territoriali, sociali ed economiche legate a questi due settori trasversali
Editoriale: Immaginari turistici
No full textLes textes réunis dans ce dossier thématique de Via@ sur les « Imaginaires touristiques » cherchent à explorer un ensemble de questions portant sur le rôle, le fonctionnement et l’impact des imaginaires sur les lieux, les acteurs et les pratiques touristiques.
Issus du colloque « Tourism Imaginaries/Imaginaires Touristiques »1 organisé en février 2011 à Berkeley par l’EIREST2 et le TSWG3 sous la responsabilité scientifique de Nelson Graburn (anthropologie) et de Maria Gravari-Barbas (géographie), ils visent à approfondir la notion des imaginaires touristiques et à proposer des méthodologies et des connaissances susceptibles de les appréhender globalement
Applying regenerative thinking in yachting tourism. Insights from the Northern Adriatic Sea
No full textThe ‘turn to the sea’ through yachting tourism recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic prompts the relocation of the sea, including its nature and culture, back at the centre of processes of change in selected coastal resorts. The recent revamp of regenerative thinking in tourism offers a theoretical and practical ground on which to consider the development potential of yachting tourism as agent of societal change and coastal resort evolution. Using the Northern Adriatic Sea as a geographical point of reference, and Rimini as an exemplary model of second-generation coastal resort, we used a constructivist variant of grounded theory. Findings show that in the Northern Adriatic Sea area some favourable conditions do exist for the YT sector to contribute to reconnecting humans with the nature and culture of the sea confirming its regenerative tourism potential. Nevertheless, formal efforts to support the needed for a cultural shift, from international agencies to local administration, are undermined by a culture of the sea that is fragmented by the disjointed agendas of distinct sea communitas
Regenerative tourism as a post-disaster response: lessons from Cammino nelle Terre Mutate
Full text linkDisasters, resulting from natural hazards, have a profound impact on communities and places, revealing vulnerabilities while shaping unique identities. Regenerative tourism offers promise in aiding recovery and revitalization, supporting local economies, and fostering a transition to alternative development approaches. Drawing on emerging conceptual frameworks in regenerative tourism, this paper proposes their application in post-disaster contexts. It explores walking itineraries as potential regenerative practices, embodying spiritual and political acts of re-signifying place. Using the Cammino nelle Terre Mutate case study, which traverses rural villages in central Italy struck by violent earthquakes in 2009 and 2016–2017, the study examines the application of regenerative thinking in post-disaster tourism practices. It illustrates how walking itineraries, when guided by regenerative principles, can facilitate the coexistence of humans and the environment, which includes natural hazards as intrinsic components of a dynamic living system. This study highlights the role of communities in enhancing system capacity, revealing the inherent potential of affected areas beyond recovery, and paving the way for tourism as part of a regenerative process. However, tourism’s effectiveness depends on nurturing a regenerative mindset and harnessing transformative capacities to stimulate local economies and imaginaries, prompting a re-evaluation of tourism’s role in local development
Editoriale Special issue Via Francigena: the Long Way of Peace among the European Landscapes
No full textStarting
from
this
special
issue,
Almatourism
is
pleased
to
introduce
a
new
series
of
yearly
publications
(due
every
January)
devoted
to
research,
education
and
project
development
on
the
interactions
between
Heritage,
Cultural
Tourism,
Landscape
and
Cultural
Itineraries
(including
also
specific
focuses
on
pilgrimage),
especially
addressing
the
growing
scientific,
professional
and
public
community
interested
in
this
field.
These
geopolitical
and
territorial
phenomena
have
increasingly
lent
themselves
to
being
interpreted
as
tools
for
sustainable
cultural
tourism
and
sustainable
local
development,
also
useful
to
rescale
social
participation,
with
the
enhancement
of
Europe's
cultural
and
heritage
diversity
as
a
main
priority.
This
publication
is
the
outcome
of
the
International
Conference
"Via
Francigena:
the
Long
Way
of
Peace
among
the
European
Landscapes"
(2016
April
28/30
between
Fidenza
and
Piacenza).
The
event
was
organized
in
the
framework
of
the
European
project
“Via
Francigena
and
the
Pilgrimage
Ways”,
to
celebrate
the
15th
anniversary
of
the
European
Association
Vie
Francigene
(2001),
seven
years
after
the
European
Council
label
(1994)
of
the
Sigerico's
pathfrom
Canterbury
to
Rome,
winding
along
the
pilgrim's
historical
route
from
North
"Francigena"
regions
to
St.
Peter's
City.
This
project
represents
a
very
important
cultural
and
academic
step
for
the
Via
Francigena
route
and
the
other
trans-‐
national
pilgrimage
routes
certified
by
the
Council
of
Europe,
capitalising
upon
the
2012-‐2013
DG
Growth
funded
project
“This
is
Europe
PER
VIAM
-‐
Pilgrims'
Routes
in
Action”
Il recupero dei borghi abbandonati nell'Appennino Tosco-Romagnolo.
No full textIl contributo prende in considerazione il tema dei centri minori in area appenninica, mettendo a confronto quattro diversi casi di intervento di recupero e riabilitazione funzionale nell'Appennino Tosco-romagnolo
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