UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites
Travel, Sustainability & Technology
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism as a lifestyle sector faced one of its worst crises up to date. As many countries are relaxing restrictions and international travel seems to be able to return, it is time to critically think about the future of...
PhD Defence: Rafael Oliveira
Congratulations to, Rafael Oliveira, who finished his PhD journey in March 2022! Rafael worked on the development of a model of cultural sustainability indicators for the management of tangible and intangible heritage, mainly in tourist places enlisted as World...
Erasmus+ #ICT4STD Summer School in Berlin
The (Spring) Summer School took place in Berlin from March 4th until March 12th, 2022. The purpose of the Summer School was to bring together multinational teams of students from the four partner universities of the Erasmus+ #ICT4STD project in order to study and...
Visit of Jose Bastante, head of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu
On Thursday, 3rd of March, 2022, the USI UNESCO Chair had the pleasure to welcome Jose Bastante, head of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu. He presented his recent publication “Machupicchu Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias”, and the work he is doing...
New Erasmus+ “#ICT4STD” publication
The second study of the Eramsus+"#ICT4STD" project "ICT-Anwendungen gegenurbanen Overtourismus" has been published in the Austrian tourism journal "Tourismus Wissen Quarterly". It is about ICT and overtourism in cities and was written by Louisa Wolf-Gorny. More...
PhD Student, Lea Hasenzahl, is part of Asia Society Switzerland Gen A Fellowship Program
Ph.D. Student, Lea Hasenzahl, is one of 25 Gen A Fellows of the Asia Society Switzerland. "Asia Society Switzerland is committed to empowering younger voices in the dialogue with Asia, recognizing youth as a key driver of Switzerland’s future success in the region"...