Be.CULTOUR - Beyond CULtural TOURism: heritage innovation networks as drivers of Europeanisation towards a human-centred and circular tourism economy (DUS.AD017.144)

Area tematica

Scienze umane e sociali, patrimonio culturale

Area progettuale

Struttura responsabile del progetto di ricerca

Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo (IRISS)

Altre strutture che collaborano al progetto di ricerca

• Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC)

Responsabile di progetto

ANTONIA GRAVAGNUOLO
Telefono: 0812470996
E-mail: a.gravagnuolo@iriss.cnr.it

Abstract

Cultural tourism entails opportunities but also risks. If not managed properly, cultural tourism can easily turn into a "value extractive" industry, generating negative environmental, social and cultural impacts on local communities and ecosystems. This project will develop specific strategies to promote an understanding of cultural tourism, which moves away from a "stop-and-go" consumer-oriented approach towards one that puts humans and circular economy models at its centre, paying attention to nature, communities and cultural diversity. "Place", intended as the genius loci, the ancient spirit of the site and "people" as co-creators of its uniqueness, culture, art, tradition, folklore, productivity, spirituality, are the focus of Be.CULTOUR.
Wide and diversified partnerships of stakeholders from 18 EU and non-EU regions of Northern-Central and Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Eastern neighbourhood and the Mediterranean, will be the driving force of the project.

Obiettivi

The overarching goal of Be.CULTOUR is to co-create and test sustainable human-centred innovations for circular cultural tourism through collaborative innovation networks/methodologies and improved investments strategies. Targeting deprived remote, peripheral or deindustrialized areas and cultural landscapes as well as over-exploited areas, local Heritage innovation networks will co-develop a long-term heritage-led development project in the areas involved enhancing inclusive economic growth, communities' wellbeing and resilience, nature regeneration as well as effective cooperation at cross-border, regional and local level.
This project will develop specific strategies to promote an understanding of cultural tourism, which moves away from a "stop-and-go" consumer-oriented approach towards one that puts humans and circular economy models at its centre, paying attention to nature, communities and cultural diversity.

Data inizio attività

01/02/2021

Parole chiave

Cultural Tourism, Circular Economy, Human-centred

Ultimo aggiornamento: 29/04/2024