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	UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

Launch of a new project

Machu Picchu - Seen through the eyes of Fernando Astete

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The Chair is thrilled to present "Machu Picchu - Seen Through the Eyes of Fernando Astete", a website featuring stories and images by the former Chief of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu. Photo Credit: José Bastante

A new digital archive

Fernando Astete Collection

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On the Iconoteca of USI's Accademia di Architettura, the new Fernando Astete Collection is available, featuring digitized images from the historical archive of the anthropologist who directed Machu Picchu for over 35 years.

Erasmus+ Project

ICT4STD International Academy

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In September, representatives from the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (PL) and the University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde (DE) came to Lugano for the training Academy, while participants from the University of Novi Sad (SRB) attended the Academy online.

New Initiative

HTHIC Heritage & Slow Tourism Lab

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Chair holder, Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, is part of HTHIC’s “Heritage & Slow Tourism LAB”, which is a spin-off of the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conference (HTHIC). The virtual LAB explores the meanings and practices of 'Slow' to preserve heritage with regards to tourism.

New Partnership

Via Tourism Review

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The Chair and the open-edition journal, Via Tourism Review, have become partners. Via Tourism Review is an international, plurilingual and multidisciplinary, tourism journal. It publishes in different languages.

New Intake 2020

New Semester - New Students

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A new semester has started for the Master in International Tourism, combining both online and offline classes! A new international class of 17 students, coming from six different countries and motivated to learn, is ready to shape the sustainable future of travel and tourism.

About Us

Camilla Borghi

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Our newest addition to the team is Camilla Borghi. She is a Master's student in Cultural Heritage Management at Johns Hopkins University and is doing an internship at the Chair collaborating on the Machu Picchu project, in particular to the digital storytelling aspect.

	Publications


	Cultural localization in online heritage promotion Mele, E., Kerkhof, P., & Cantoni, L. (2020) Cultural localization in online heritage promotion. "Journal of Heritage Tourism", DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2020.1779731


	From web 1.0 to web 4.0: the digital heritage platforms for UNESCO’s heritage properties in Indonesia Permatasari, P., Qohar, A., & Rachman, A. (2020). From web 1.0 to web 4.0: the digital heritage platforms for UNESCO’s heritage properties in Indonesia. "Virtual Archaeology Review", 11(23), 75-93. doi:https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2020.13121


	Governing Future Challenges in Mediterranean Protected Areas Alfarè L.T. & Ruoss E. (eds) 2020: Governing Future Challenges in Mediterranean Protected Areas. CNR Edition 2020


	Social Media and ICT Tools to Manage Tourism in Heritage Destinations Ruoss, E. and Sormaz, A. (2020) Social Media and ICT Tools to Manage Tourism in Heritage Destinations. In: Luger, K. & Ripp, M. (eds.) "Tourism - transcultural and transdisciplinary" series, Studien Verlag Innsbruck-Vienna-Bolzano (in print).


	Localization and Cultural Adaptation on the Web: An Explorative Study in the Fashion Domain Noris A., SanMiguel P., Cantoni L. (2020) Localization and Cultural Adaptation on the Web: An Explorative Study in the Fashion Domain. In: Nah FH., Siau K. (eds) HCI in Business, Government and Organizations. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50341-3_36


	The Relevance of Eye-Tracking to Understand Users’ Practices and Content Interpretation in Tourism-Related Online Navigation Marchiori E., Cantoni L. (2020) The Relevance of Eye-Tracking to Understand Users’ Practices and Content Interpretation in Tourism-Related Online Navigation. In: Rainoldi M., Jooss M. (eds) Eye Tracking in Tourism. Tourism on the Verge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49709-5_6