Cultural Tourism, UNESCO Sites and 2030 Agenda: Where Are We At?
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 61
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Interests: sustainability assessment and valuation; green building assessment; UNESCO site management; cultural tourism valuation; property management
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Interests: tourism; geotourism; underground built heritage
Interests: heritage documentation; conservation; management and adaptive reuse; vernacular architecture; industrial archeology; 20th-century heritage
Interests: economic history of tourism; production landscapes; industrial heritage
Interests: urban and regional development; tourism geographies; territorial governance; innovation policies
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Dear Colleagues,
Just 5 years from the 2030 milestone and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, our proposal intends to take stock of the codified good practices or, more simply, the experimental solutions still underway, to govern the economic development processes based on cultural tourism in sites with tangible and intangible values, starting from those recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage, to measure their carrying capacity and mitigate the impacts of their enhancement.
These could be some of the topics for which contributions could be directed:
- Assessment of the carrying capacity of territories and sites and tools for mitigating pressures on local communities and cultural heritage;
- Assessment of the impacts of cultural tourism;
- Strategic planning and organization of the cultural-tourist offer;
- Governance models, community involvement and redistribution of benefits;
- Real estate dynamics;
- Strategic classification of cultural assets for their enhancement as touristic resources (from a historical standpoint, too);
- Networks;
- New trends, new markets.
Dr. Francesco Calabrò
Dr. Laura Genovese
Dr. Stefania Landi
Prof. Dr. Maddalena Chimisso
Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Bencardino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agenda 2030
- overtourism
- best practices
- UNESCO sites
- cultural tourism
- governance
- markets
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