UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites
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...
Heritage, Tourism and ICTs (Salzburg /Austria), 15-16.05.2017)
Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni was a keynote at the ISCONTOUR 2017 Conference, which took place in Salzburg (Austria), May 15-16, 2017. ICONTOUR 2017 Salzburg (Austria)
Sustaining Sustainabilities. Cultural heritage & cultural capital
May 5th, 2017 prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will keynote at the Sustaining Sustainabilities. Cultural heritage & cultural capital Conference at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pannonia (Veszprem, Hungary). More info here.