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Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality
4th International Conference
HTHIC2020

Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
Mendrisio | Ticino | Switzerland | 6-8 April 2020

Cancelled

HTHIC2020, the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, 4th International Conference, was cancelled because of the spread of COVID-19. However, “Preceedings” were published and can be downloaded in the Resources section. Experts on Slow tourism gathered in the online HTHIC Heritage & Slow Tourism LAB to exchange knowledge and insights.

Organisers

HTHIC | Elgin & Co. | Netherlands
UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites at
USI – Università della Svizzera italiana | Lugano | Switzerland

Chairs

Scientific Conference Board
Lorenzo Cantoni | USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Silvia De Ascaniis | USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

Destination & Industry Conference Board
Karin Elgin-Nijhuis | HTHIC | Elgin & Co. | Netherlands | Chair

Scientific Conference Board

Destination & Industry Conference Board

Local Organising Committee

Nadia Fontana Lupi | Organizzazione Turistica Regionale Mendrisiotto e Basso Ceresio | Switzerland

Partners & Sponsors

Swiss Commission for UNESCO | Switzerland
UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development” |
UNESCO Chair at Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne | France
ICOMOS – International Council on Monuments and Sites | Netherlands
ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee (ICTC)
USI – Università della Svizzera italiana | Lugano | Switzerland
Municipality of Mendrisio | Ticino | Switzerland
Organizzazione Turistica Regionale Mendrisiotto e Basso Ceresio | Switzerland
Fondazione Processioni Storiche di Mendrisio | Switzerland
Ticino Tourism Agency | Agenzia Turistica Ticinese | Switzerland
Fondazione del Monte San Giorgio | Switzerland
World Heritage Experience Switzerland | Switzerland
Museo Vincenzo Vela | Ligornetto, Switzerland
Centre for Global Heritage and Development | Leiden University, Delft University of Technology,
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands
Ancient History Encyclopedia
EU Interreg Project Creating opportunities for regional growth through promoting
Cultural HERitage of fISHing communities in Europe (CHERISH)
Slow Adventure in Northern Territories (SAINT) | United Kingdom a.o.
Caffè Chicco d’Oro | Balerna | Switzerland
Chocolat Stella | Switzerland
Viaggi Mantegazzi | Switzerland
Hotel Touring Chiasso & Mövenpick Restaurant Chiasso | Switzerland
Eurail Group BV | Netherlands

Keynote Speakers

Maria Gravari-Barbas | Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne | France
Keynote speech

Speakers

Samuele Cavadini | Municipality of Mendrisio | Switzerland
Welcome to Mendrisio

Valeria Croce | Eurail Group BV | Netherlands
Experiential and iconic aspects of Interrail Travel

Kaspar Schürch | World Heritage Experience Switzerland | Switzerland
Ten years of experience as the umbrella organisation for the network of UNESCO World Heritage properties in Switzerland

Tiny Maenhout | Municipality of Middelburg | Netherlands
EU Interreg Project CHERISH

Gabriele Ponti | Historical Processions Foundation of Mendrisio | Switzerland
The historical processions of Mendrisio

Burçin Kalabay Hatipoğlu | Boğaziçi University & UNSW | Turkey & Australia
Slow Tourism – An introduction to Slow Food’s contribution to the SDGs

Milla Öystilä | WHS Sea Fortress of Suomenlinna | Finland
How to develop a sustainable tourism strategy? A critical reflection of the experiences of the World Heritage Site Suomenlinna

Liana Miate | Ancient History Encyclopedia | Canada & United Kingdom
Promoting cultural heritage through social media

Barbara Gisi | Swiss Tourism Federation STV-FST | Switzerland
Trends in tourism

Cynthia Dunning Thierstein | ArcheoConcept | Switzerland
Tourism and archaeology in Switzerland, in search of a balance

Aurélia Basterrechea | ArcheoConcept | Switzerland
Tourism and archaeology in Switzerland, in search of a balance

Luca Zulliger | Museum of Fossils of Monte San Giorgio | Switzerland
Preservation, (re-)presentation and promotion of the Museum of Fossils of Monte San Giorgio

Daniele Albisetti | UNESCO WHS Monte San Giorgio & Museum of Fossils | Switzerland
UNESCO WHS Monte San Giorgio & Museum of Fossils

Roland Murauer | CIMA Beratung + Management GmbH | Austria
“Old & Slow” – two important success factors for slow tourism development in Enns

Melissa Brunner | CIMA Beratung+Management GmbH | Austria
“Old & Slow” – two important success factors for slow tourism development in Enns

Pia Smeds | Natural Resources Institute Finland Luke | Finland
Title t.b.c.

Sara Mair Bellshaw | University of the Highlands and Islands | Slow Adventure | United Kingdom
The Slow Experience project

Karin Elgin-Nijhuis | Elgin & Co. | Netherlands
How to implement a philosophy? Cittalow in the Netherlands. Strategy and story

Michele Rumiz | Slow Food | Italy
Slow Food and Slow Tourism

Eduardo Santander | European Travel Commission (ETC) | Belgium
Title t.b.c.

Véronique Hermanjat | Slow Destination Morges Region | ARCAM | Switzerland
Morges Region – Slow Tourism! Switzerland’s first Slow Tourism destination

Boris van der Ham | Dutch Foundation for World Heritage sites | Netherlands
Collective promotion of Dutch UNESCO World Heritage

Chris Blandford | World Heritage UK | Chris Blandford Associates | United Kingdom
The UK World Heritage collection – Asset for the future

Presenters of Research Papers and Work-in-Progress

Andela Sormaz
Social media to balance tourism flow in natural heritage destinations

Maria Belén Prados Peña & Maria Paz Sáez-Pérez
The conservation and restoration of heritage as an improvement in the competitiveness of tourist destinations through the vision of tourists

Enrica Lemmi
Heritage and new communication technologies: development perspectives on the basis of the Via Francigena experience

Rafael Oliveira
The impact of Pampulha Modern Ensemble UNESCO nomination as a world cultural heritage on TripAdvisor’s reviews

Emanuela Conti
Improvisation music festival and sustainability: the case of “Teatro Libero del Monte Nerone”

Junjie Su
Intangible cultural heritage and ethnic cultural and tourism industries in Yunnan, China

Lorenzo Cantoni
ICTs for sustainable tourism at heritage sites: a framework and some fields of application

Engelbert Ruoss
Valorisation of architectonic heritage for the development of sustainable tourism in remote areas

Maria Della Lucia
Coming to new life? Envisioning sustainable development in industrial World Heritage Sites

Maria Garbelli
Temporary cooperation among local authorities to sustain the heritage promotion: the virtual enterprise model in tourism

Arja Lemmetyinen & Johanna Aalto
A gentler structure to life – Alvar Aalto’s heritage in branding a cultural route

Carla Coloniese
Cultural heritage and wine tourism: payés wines in Calonge i Sant Antoni

Deepak Chhabra
A conceptual paradigm to determine behavior of slow spiritual tourists

Marcela Iturbe Vargas & Alejandra De María Hernández González
Cultural identity and Slow Tourism as a strategy to boost the living heritage of Chiapas and contribute to its development

Cecilia Pasquinelli
The European Capitals of Culture in a time of overtourism hazard

Laura Puolamäki
We are opening the gate with a clef. Encounters between people, space, and objects through chamber music

Martina Nannelli & Maria Della Lucia
Beyond traditional business models in the tourism industry

Thi Quynh Trang Nguyen
Relation between tourismscapes and governance towards sustainable development at Hue heritage site, Vietnam

Chang Liu
The sense of reading history in low tourism heritage: The missing integrity for prehistoric brochs in Shetland

Giacinta Jean
Keeping continuity in conservation actions. The Sacro Monte in Orselina (Switzerland)

Godfrey Ayubu
Dismembering indigenous construction aesthetics in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Stijn Reinders
Imaginative heritage. Towards a holistic perspective on media, tourism and governmentality

Zhang Chaozhi
Generation Transition? Chinese Tourist in World Heritage Sites Research Based on Big Data

Barbara Rosenberg-Taufer
Can intangible cultural heritage and identity be matched with tourism & marketing? Insights into three case studies

Ji Eun Park
From utopia to tourism destination: Heritage-making of nature, tourism and transformation of Island. A comparative case study

Maaike de Waal
World Heritage city of Bridgetown, Barbados (West Indies): Money pit or pot of gold?

Silvia Casellas
Transmedia tourism: reflections for the design of tourist spaces. The Literapolisbcn project

Craig White
A netnographic study of visitor discourses of European Holocaust heritage

Nirit Koren Lawrence
The future of the past: A methodology for the management of archaeological tourist sites

Catherine Dezio
Cross-survey on the anti-fragility potential of sustainable tourism for unused rural capital

Maria D. Alvarez & Pelin Sürmeli
Social impact assessment in cultural trails: Case of Hoyran/Kapaklı in the Lycian Way

Mervat Nasser
New Hermopolis- An Egyptian model of sustainable tourism

John Ebejer
The conservation of a tourist-historic city: Valetta as a case study

Assisting the organisation

Hakan Elgin | Elgin & Co. | Netherlands

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