15 articles in this issue
Fiorella Dallari,Maria Stella Minuti
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Maria Stella Minuti
The Erasmus Mundus Project Her.cul.es - Strengthening the attractiveness of European higher education in Heritage and Cultural Tourism presents activityes and results. The opening presentation gives an overview of the project Her.cul.es- Strengthening the... see more
Arthur Pedersen
The presentation offers observations related to heritage natural and cultural site visitor management interventions. Observations include the need for the more robust planning and management frameworks and processes that permit and guide discussion a... see more
Simona Cadar
The presentation aims to examine the new type of skills that heritage professionals may need to acquire in response to the changing socio-economic context of the contemporary world. It will also look into possible strategic alliances between higher educat... see more
Abdelhak Nemouchi
For a long period of time, tourism studies have been amalgamated with management and economics. Then, with the development of tourism as the second most important industry in the world, syllabus designers felt the need of elaborating special contents for ... see more
Francesca Riccio
Italy, with its 49 sites, it’s the country with the largest number of entries in the List of UNESCO World Heritage and none of them is in the list of properties in danger. The "Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention... see more
Alex Bell,Louise Emanuel
The paper focuses on an Interreg funded pilot project entitled ‘Heritage and Culture for Learning, Empowerment and Sustainable Tourism’. The project was a collaborative development between a Higher Education Institution in Wales and a Voluntary Sect... see more
Fekri A. Hassan
In an attempt to shift the strategy in Egypt toward sustainable heritage tourism a project was designed aiming to (1) integrate the archaeological site with local natural and rural heritage resources, (2) increase local awareness, (3) engage local communi... see more
Faysal Mansouri
This is to lay down an approach to develop tourism and cultural heritage through higher education and entrepreneurship development for economies in transition: The case of Tunisia. There is a need to provide incentives to people to have favorable preferen... see more
Olav Clemens
The paper will show how German tour operators facilitate sustainable tourism and encourage their travellers to value and respect heritage and living cultures of host communities by providing and promoting sustainability criteria. A selection of criteria w... see more
Elisa Fiorucci,Ellyn Matta
A report of the assigned tasks and methodologies used by the participants of the Assisi Summer Seminar “Tourism Management at World Heritage Site”, which was held in Assisi, Italy in July 2013 taken from the participants’ perspectives.
Oualid Nemouchi,Moussa Zarour
In perspective of the event "Constantine, Capital of the Arab Culture 2015", we undertook a modest research project largely inspired by the fieldwork achieved in Assisi in July 2013 and which aimed at gauging the state of mind of the population regarding ... see more
Emidio Diodato
Tourism development across the Middle East and North Africa is mostly based on low cost and mass beach leisure. This kind of tourism development generated, already in 1980s, a rapid conversion of the whole of the Mediterranean coast into a pleasure “perip... see more
Pablo Arboleda,Emil Bakev,Ellyn Matta,Andra Vaida
This article provides certain key aspects that might help to further develop academic heritage education. These have been discussed within brainstorming and round-table sessions carried out by World Heritage students at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Important ... see more
Claudio Ricci
The presentation analyses the correlation between management, namely the coordination activities in the territorial framework of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and training at different levels (professional training, political and management training) and ... see more