Events

March 6, 2015. Prof. Cantoni presented a seminar on eTourism and Heritage at the Rede da Cátedra UNESCO - Turismo Cultural e Desenvolvimento in Coimbra, Portugal

We are glad to announce that the second edition of the UNESCO chair Summer School is out! Check out the program and all novelties around the theme: Information and Communication Technologies to Promote Sustainable Tourism - Tangible and Intangible...

From February 13th to March 29th 2015 the "Rede da Cátedra UNESCO - Turismo Cultural e Desenvolvimento" organizes 13 seminars in different cities of Portugal and Açores Islands. In March 6th 2015 Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni was invited to present the...

February 3-6, 2015. ENTER2015 eTourism Conference by IFITT whose president is Prof. Cantoni was held in Lugano (Switzerland).

December 4-7, 2014. Prof. Cantoni held a keynote presentation at the  Conference Smart Travel 2014 in Bragança and Mirandela (Portugal).

November 19-21, 2014. Prof. Cantoni gave a course on "Promotion and Localization of Websites for Sustainable Tourism" for the European Master in InterCultural Communication (EMICC) - at INALCO in Paris (France).

November 6-8,  2014. Prof. Cantoni held a keynote presentation at the Conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage in Istanbul (Turkey).

May 10, 2014. Presentation of the new website of Fondazione Svizzera Pro Venezia.

The first edition of the Summer School IDEAL-Tourism dedicated to Information Communication Technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations is currently happening in Lugano, Switzerland....

Professor Lorenzo Cantoni, chair-holder of the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI, and president of IFITT - International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and...

The UNESCO Chair is participating in the poster session of Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships Riches Project First International Conference in Pisa, 4 - 5 December 2014. You can download our poster here.  

From Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th December Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni and Dr. Silvia De Ascaniis taught the first part of a course on “Sustainable Tourism, local development and Heritage communication. The role of Information and Communication...

Professor Lorenzo Cantoni, the chair holder of UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites is going to give a keynote speech at the international conference “A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for...

The UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites of Università della Svizzera italiana become member of the European Network of Knowledge (EUNeK), a network on Universities for the Via Francigena and the...

Asta Adukaite, the coordinator of UNESCO Chair, presented a paper during the TTRA APac 2014 Conference in Melbourne Australia. The paper “Potential and implications for destination management of Online Travel Reviews’ argumentative analysis. The...

The event called "A Stakeholders' Consultative Forum for the Preparation of Ethiopia National Tourism Master Plan" was held on the 30-31 July 2014 in  Addis Ababa. Professor Lorenzo Cantoni participated with a video recording on "Application of...

Hereafter a few pictures of an exciting first week of the Summer school Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni (USI Lugano, Switzerland) on eTourism   Prof. Marcel Danesi (Toronto, Canada) on Semiotics   One of the several groupworks   Dr. Silvia De...

December 9, 2013. Prof. Cantoni held a keynote presentation at the 8th IPID International Annual Symposium (the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the area of ICT4D) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The keynote speech...

November 29, 2013. Prof. Cantoni has attended UNESCO Swiss Commission General Assembly at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he has presented the progress work of UNESCO Chair and especially focused on the "Awareness...

June 28, 2013. A press conference was held at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), to introduce a new mobile application dedicated to the two UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) in Ticino (Switzerland): the cultural site “Three Castles,...

May 2, 2013. UNESCO Swiss Commission every two years organizes an event called Lugano meeting to provide an informal forum for national Commissions to review their cooperation and to discuss the common challenges they face in their work with and...

Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations.

The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites

August 25-September 5, 2014
Università della Svizzera italiana
USI Lugano – Switzerland