by USI UNESCO Chair | Jun 27, 2019 | Events, Home
Chair coordinator, Silvia de Ascaniis and research assistant, Lea Hasenzahl, joined Day 2 of the conference in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Swiss UNESCO Comission! The Chair presented itself and highlighted its upcoming projects, the UNESCO Summer School and...
by USI UNESCO Chair | May 27, 2019 | Events, Home
On Sunday, July 28th 2019, chair holder Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, held a conference at 5:30 p.m. in the “Maison Ticino”. The event was organized by “Sapori Ticino” and represented “an opportunity to explore the concept of intangible cultural...
by USI UNESCO Chair | May 9, 2019 | DESy, Home, News
<<DESy>> (short for: Digital Destination Evolution System) is a project between the border areas of Switzerland and Italy and was created to collect and analyze tourist information using AI. This will benefit the tourism experience of the visitor to both...
by USI UNESCO Chair | May 7, 2019 | Home, News
After the great success of the first volume (6’500+ learners from 166 countries), a brand new volume of the Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) opened its doors to all tourism professionals, students, site managers,...
by USI UNESCO Chair | Apr 20, 2019 | Events, Home
From the 8th to 12th of April 2019, several team members such as chair holder Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni and intern Andela Sormaz, participated in the 6th UNESCO Unitwin Conference in Leuven (Belgium) , which was dedicated to the “value of heritage for...
by USI UNESCO Chair | Apr 18, 2019 | Events, Home
The Call for Papers and Presentations of the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, 4th International Conference (HTHIC2020) is now online. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in tourism, heritage, hospitality, geography, archaeology, architecture and...