Events
Digital Media and Heritage Tourism: a Map
On June 13, 2023, professor Lorenzo Cantoni has done a presentation titled Digital Media and Heritage Tourism: a Map at the University of Geneva, organized by the Centre Universitaire d’Informatique and the Confucius Institute. See the video of the...
Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni has keynoted at the 10th Training Academy of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
On May 31, 2023, prof. Lorenzo Cantoni has presented on How to improve the visibility of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe? at the 10th Training Academy of Cultural Routes, which has taken place in Dordogne, France. At the following...
April 2023 Teambuilding visit @ Baptistery of Saint John
The UNESCO Chair Team at a teambuilding visit on 21.04.2023 to the Baptistery of Saint John in Riva San Vitale, Swiss municipality of binational UNESCO World Heritage Centre Monte San Giorgio, discovering the archaeological artefact of Sator with...
Dr. Ruoss participates in Franklin’s Earth Summit Day
Dr. Ruoss participated as a panellist at the Earth Summit at Franklin University (Lugamo) on Sustainable Tourism and Travel on Saturday, 22.04.2023. He presented the Arbostora Heritage Destination project of the USI CHAIT/Master. More information...
Swiss Sustainability Forum 2023 in Lugano (31.03.2023)
On Friday, 31.03.2023, dr. Silvia De Ascaniis and prof. Lorenzo Cantoni co-chaired the 2023 edition of the Swiss Sustainability Forum, organized in collaboration with the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. It has been an intense and incredibly...
Prof. Cantoni @ “The Next 50 – The future of World Heritage in challenging times enhancing resilience and sustainability” (17 – 18 November 2022)
"On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre are organizing an...
State of Asia 2022 Conference
PhD candidate, Lea Hasenzahl, participated and attended as a Gen A Fellow in the State of Asia Address and Conference 2022 in Zurich (9 - 10 November 2022), which was organized by the Asian Society Switzerland. "Gen A is a learning and leadership...
Prof. Cantoni @ “Cultura, natura, paesaggio 50 anni della Convenzione del patrimonio mondiale dell’Unesco”
"La Convenzione per la protezione del patrimonio mondiale culturale e naturale dell’UNESCO compie 50 anni (1972-2022). Con la ratifica del 1975 la Svizzera si è impegnata a proteggere, curare e conservare il proprio patrimonio di valore universale...
“The entrepreneurial values of a family led by the principle of novare serbando. Conversation with Niccolò Branca”
Thursday, November 24th, 2022, 18:30 – 20:00 Auditorium West Campus, USI Lugano Entrance is free Niccolò Branca is an Italian business humanist and writer. Since 1999 he is president and CEO of the Holding of the Branca International S.p.A Group....
Dr. De Ascaniis presents new book @ Skål International Lugano
Dr. De Ascaniis presented the "Handbook on heritage, sustainable tourism and digital media" to the members of Skål International Lugano, sharing with them some experience and thoughts in a friendly environment. Skål is a professional organisation...
Dr. Silvia De Ascaniis @ 1st edition of the People-Nature-Culture Forum
Chair coordinator, Dr. Silvia De Ascaniis, visited Suwon Hwaseong, Republic of Korea, where she was invited to participate in the 1st edition of the People-Nature-Culture (PNC) Forum. The Forum was organized by World Heritage Leadership Programme -...
Prof. Cantoni @ 11th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum Chania (Crete), Greece 5 – 7 October 2022
Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will be participating in the 11th Annual Advisory Forum of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe "Safeguarding European Values, Heritage, and Dialogue" in Chania (Greece) from the 5th until the 7th of October, 2022. ...
Workshop: Cultural Sustainability in Tourism: Management Model for Heritage Sites
Watch it live on YouTube on the 27th of September @ 12.30 (CET): https://youtu.be/SA0aO9uTYwE This workshop is organized by USI UNESCO Chair in collaboration with UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and UFVJM (Federal University of...
Machu Picchu: digital media for sustainable preservation, communication and flow management
Watch it live on YouTube, on the 26th of September @ 18.30 (CET): https://youtu.be/9BBeNoqYiHg UNESCO has organized a World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022 - aiming at fully integrating culture as a...
USI UNESCO Chair participated to the first Executive Board Meeting of ATHENA
ATHENA (Association of Tourism, Hospitality and Events Networks in Academia) has the mission of sharing knowledge, experience and expertise, and supporting scientific excellence in tourism amongst research centres/institutes internationally. Its...
7th UNESCO Unitwin Conference
USI UNESCO Chair participated in the 7th UNESCO UNITWIN conference “World Heritage and tourism innovation - responding to the challenges in a changing world”, which took place between 15th and 20th May 2022 in Portorož, Slovenia, at the University...
Women in Big Data Conference 2022
PhD Candidate, Lea Hasenzahl, presented her PhD project "Exploring the public discourse around Chinese Outbound Tourism in Western societies (working title)" at the Women in Big Data 2022 Conference in Zürich (18 - 20 May, 2022). The Confernece...
Open access chapters of the Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media
We are happy to announce the publication of the Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media, edited by Silvia De Ascaniis and Lorenzo Cantoni, published by Edward Elgar: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970082. The volume explores the...
Brownbag Session: Are Social Media getting the key marketing tool for heritage destinations, Engelbert?
Research Advisor, Dr. Engelbert Ruoss, is presenting how Social Media can be used as management tool to foster sustainable tourism development and to balance over and under tourism. The event is organised by the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable...
Sustainable Universiy Day
Last Friday 29 of April we took part to the Sustainable Universiy Day organized by USI & SUPSI at Mendrisio in USI & SUPSI campus, the event was supported by the Swiss Academies of Sciences through the U Change initiative. Program of the...
Trasmettere Gestire Valorizzare – Corso di formazione per gli archvisti ecclesiastici
Travel, Sustainability & Technology
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism as a lifestyle sector faced one of its worst crises up to date. As many countries are relaxing restrictions and international travel seems to be able to return, it is time to critically think...
Erasmus+ #ICT4STD Summer School in Berlin
The (Spring) Summer School took place in Berlin from March 4th until March 12th, 2022. The purpose of the Summer School was to bring together multinational teams of students from the four partner universities of the Erasmus+ #ICT4STD project in...
Visit of Jose Bastante, head of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu
On Thursday, 3rd of March, 2022, the USI UNESCO Chair had the pleasure to welcome Jose Bastante, head of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu. He presented his recent publication “Machupicchu Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias”, and...