UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites
Prof. Cantoni @ UNESCO Swiss Commission General Assembly
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 campaign about World...
Press conference to introduce the new mobile application dedicated to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ticino
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, Defensive Wall and Ramparts...
Swiss UNESCO Commission holds an informal forum in Lugano
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 for UNESCO. The Lugano...
Summer School 2014 IDEAL-Tourism
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
The Unesco Chair has been approved in Spring 2013, and established in September 2013
The UNESCO chair is committed to perform extensive research and teaching on how ICT, especially the internet, can be effectively exploited to develop and promote sustainable tourism at the World Heritage Sites (WHSs), with a special emphasis on the southern hemisphere. Its scope touches and overlaps on the following fields: eTourism, eLearning, and ICT4D (ICT for Development).