Events

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni and the intern Ilaria Rosani have participated in the meeting of the UNITWIN-UNESCO Network “Culture, Tourism, Development”, led by Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which has taken place in Coimbra (Portugal), after the...

University of Turku and Elgin & Co. are pleased to announce the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conference 2017. The event will take place in Pori, Finland, on 27-29 September 2017. For more...

For the celebration of World Tourism Day 2016, Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will be a speaker at the Tourism Leaders' International Summit, representing both International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) and UNESCO Chair in ICT. The...

The 40th session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, in July 2016. A side event is dedicated to the "Integration of Sustainable Development into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention: Role of Academia and...

The event will take place on June 19-21, 2016, in Lin'an City, China. With the theme"twenty-first century tourism, heritage and memory", the forum will include topics like heritage tourism, community development coordination, and tourism...

Dr. Silvia De Ascaniis, from the UNESCO Chair at USI, presents #faces4heritage campaign at the UNESCO High-Level Meeting and Technical Conference titled Cultural Diversity under Attack: Protecting Heritage for Peace (Brussels, 09-10 June 2016) More...

In the frame of the global initiative P2P: Challenging Extremism, a class of Master students of USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (in the 1st picture) has been invited to present their project at the U.S. Department of State in Washington...

We are glad to invite you to the seminar held by Dr. Dorothea Kleine from Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) Beyond surveys and focus groups: Young people, participatory film and equity of voice. Experiences from London and Rio The seminar...

 September 19, 2015. Tourism is one of the most intense (informal) learning experiences, when the condition of being free FROM daily duties and responsibilities allows to be free TO cultivate own interests and make new experiences. Religion, on its...

September 19, 2015. UNESCO Chair ran an Expert Workshop to explore the overlapping area between eLearning, eTourism and eReligion. Tourism is one of the most intense (informal) learning experiences, when the condition of being free FROM daily...

June 9-12, 2015. Prof. Cantoni contributes to the 5ème colloque International de l’Association ASTRES – Association Tourisme, Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur (La Rochelle, France) with a presentation on: Information and communication...

May 20-22, 2015. Dr. Nadzeya Kalbaska attended eLearning Africa 2015 Conference in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) During the conference she has presented eLearning in tourism and hospitality projects managed by webatelier.net and the UNESCO Chair, in...

May 20-22, 2015. Dr. Nadzeya Kalbaska attended eLearning Africa 2015 Conference in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and presented the WHACY Campaign.

May 9-11, 2015. Duncan Peltason, from Hospitality Youth Initiative - HYI demonstrating WHACY at INDABA - Africa's Top Travel Shows, Durban (South Africa).     Have you ever played the WHACY Game? Go for it! You will love...

An Inspiring Workshop The European Institute of Cultural Routes set up a workshop for the HECTOR project (HEritage and Cultural Tourism Open Resources for innovative training schemes related to the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe) that...

May 7, 2015. Workshop on Digital Technologies and Tourism for managers of Cultural Routes, Paris (France), May 7th 2015: see more info here.

Prof. Cantoni contributes to the 5ème colloque international de l’Association ASTRES – Association Tourisme, Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur (La Rochelle, France) with a presentation on: Information and communication technologies to listen to...

April 23-24, 2015. Prof. Cantoni presents "Capacity Building Programs for the Youth in Tourism Southern Africa" for his contribution to the WHACY Game at the the Tourism Youth Conference of RETOSA in Mauritius. You can see the two-days conference's...

The conference of the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa was held in Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius on April 23-24, 2015. The program on “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”...

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will contribute to the Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference "Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth", which will take place 23-24 April 2015, in Pointe aux...