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

Stay home, stay safe.

Happy Easter!

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The UNESCO Chair team wishes you and your families a happy Easter! This is the 1st year with the Holy Week processions in Mendrisio (Switzerland) inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Photo: Procession & Transparencies Copyright: Mendrisiotto Turismo

Summer School 2020 postponed.

Summer School 2021

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We regret to inform you that, due to the global COVID-19 outbreak, this year’s Summer School has been rescheduled to 2021. We look forward to welcoming you, in Indonesia next year, 16th – 23rd August 2021.

Preservation of the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary

International Cooperation

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The cooperation with the UNESCO Chair of the University of Genoa (Italy) and anthropologist Fernando Astete, to promote preservation and sustainable tourism at Machu Picchu is continuing. A new project is about the creation of an archive of his photographic works of the past 30 years. Stay tuned!

Project Update

Interregional DESy Project

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The project is in the concluding phase of the call-for-tender procedure for the marketing automation platform. Once ready, new strategies of communication personalisation based on data will be developed. USI is working on a survey aimed at Swiss tourism stakeholders on technological maturity.

USI is open, in a different way!

eLearning at USI

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USI successfully moved all its courses online. eLearning modalities are opening new opportunities for students and teachers and keeping the community close and alive. Applications for Bachelors and Masters are open. Picture: Recording a lecture for a Master course

eLearning4Tourism

eLearning during the time of COVID-19

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Don't forget about our small contribution to the current crisis. We have re-opened three MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) we have produced in collaboration with others and several other related free educational resources. Click here for more info!