Digital meets Culture https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/how-can-cultural-heritage-tourism-activities-and-local-communities-be-integrated-in-a-sustainable-way-to-improve-deprived-areas-in-europe/ Export date: Sat Nov 2 12:38:39 2024 / +0000 GMT |
How can cultural heritage, tourism activities and local communities be integrated in a sustainable way to improve deprived areas in Europe?The EU-funded project TexTOUR, Social Innovation and TEchnologies for sustainable growth through participative cultural TOURism, aims to co-design sustainable cultural tourism strategies and policies with the goal of producing social and economic benefits in deprived areas in Europe and beyond while preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage. To achieve its goals, the project sets up Cultural Tourism Labs at eight pilots located within and outside Europe. The selected pilots have different and complementary characteristics, they face multiple social, economic and environmental challenges. These enable the project's experts to develop a wide range of scenarios: inland and coastal areas, rural and urban, deprived remote or peripheral areas. The pilots: CRESPI D'ADDA, Italy . The best-preserved company town in Southern Europe NARVA, Estonia, Russia. A post-industrial district on the border between Estonia and Russia UMGEBINDELAND, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic. Home to half-timbered houses VIA REGIA, Ukraine, Belorus, Poland, Germany, France, Spain. A symbol for European unification TREBINJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia. Embracing the potential of Balkan diversity TARNOWSKIE GÓRY, Poland. Historic silver and lead post-mining facilities VALE DO CÔA – SIEGA VERDE, Portugal, Spain. The most remarkable open-air ensemble of Palaeolithic art in Europe ANFEH – FIKARDOU, Lebanon, Cyprus. Two heritage jewels placed between sea and sky In order to integrate cultural heritage, tourism activities and local communities in a sustainable way, the project has several socio-economic, scientific and technical objectives. Among these:
The main impacts to which it aims:
To learn more about the project: the leaftlet and TExTOUR website |