UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites
A great experience and a best paper award at HTHIC 2017
From 27th to 29th September 2017, a delegation of the UNESCO Chair at USI composed of prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, dr. Silvia De Ascaniis and Emanuele Mele participated in the third Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference held in Pori (Finland). The...
A new website for UNESCO.CH
In 2016, the Chair received an official mandate by the Swiss Commission for UNESCO (SCU) to perform a strategic analysis of its online communication and to help re-design it. The mandate was carried out in two steps. In the first phase, different methodologies were...
HERITAGE Tourism and Hospitality, 3rd International Conference
The UNESCO Chair at USI is actively involved in the conference as a partner and with two activities on place: a keynote presentation by the chair-holder, professor Cantoni, on "eLearning for Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality: an outline and some experiences", which...
A renewed mandate for the UNESCO Chair at USI
Thanks to a successful first mandate, last May the UNESCO Chair at USI was granted a renewal of four years (September 2017 – August 2021). During its first mandate (September 2013 – August 2017), a variety of activities have been performed, among which: organization...
“The Contribution of ICTs to Sustainable Tourism for Development (ICT2ST4D)” 2017 Summer School
The fourth edition of the Summer School of the UNESCO Chair in ICT [Information and Communication Technology] to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland), has been...
Workshop @ USI on “Cultural diplomacy and digital technologies”
May 25, 2017. Suzan LeVine, United States Ambassador to Switzerland, was at USI to discuss about cultural diplomacy and digital technologies: the role of social media and tourism in peace-building The workshop tackled the topic of diplomatic use of digital...