Project Details
Description
Tourism is more than travelling and consumption; it has great potential when it comes to culture, nature, knowledge and
personal experiences. Travelling is a way to learn and improve oneself, to enrich one’s vision and improve mutual
understanding. The INCULTUM project deals with the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of
furthering sustainable social, cultural and economic development. It will explore the full potential of marginal and peripheral
areas when managed by local communities and stakeholders. Innovative participatory approaches will be adopted,
transforming locals into protagonists, able to reduce negative impacts, learning from and improving good practices to be
replicated and translated into strategies and policies. Furthermore, INCULTUM fosters intercultural understanding through
the implementation of bottom-up strategies that can have positive effects for both, locals and tourists. Ten pilot cases of
living territories and communities will be investigated and on the basis of the findings innovative customised solutions will be
co-created. Additionally, pilots will be used to identify and compare drivers and barriers that account for the success or
failure of participatory models. Pilots will also enable us to assess outcomes and analyse the pre-conditions needed for a
future full implementation and scaling up of potential solutions. Pilots will provide new quantitative and qualitative data that
will be combined with official statistics and novel data gathered by the use of self-developed IT applications and the
exploitation of previously untapped data sources. The implementation of advanced econometric methods and the pioneering
introduction of machine-learning tools into tourism research will push the boundaries of our knowledge. Findings will enable
us to suggest recommendations for effective and sustainable policies, create new synergies among public and private
stakeholders and new investments, including Structural Funds
personal experiences. Travelling is a way to learn and improve oneself, to enrich one’s vision and improve mutual
understanding. The INCULTUM project deals with the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of
furthering sustainable social, cultural and economic development. It will explore the full potential of marginal and peripheral
areas when managed by local communities and stakeholders. Innovative participatory approaches will be adopted,
transforming locals into protagonists, able to reduce negative impacts, learning from and improving good practices to be
replicated and translated into strategies and policies. Furthermore, INCULTUM fosters intercultural understanding through
the implementation of bottom-up strategies that can have positive effects for both, locals and tourists. Ten pilot cases of
living territories and communities will be investigated and on the basis of the findings innovative customised solutions will be
co-created. Additionally, pilots will be used to identify and compare drivers and barriers that account for the success or
failure of participatory models. Pilots will also enable us to assess outcomes and analyse the pre-conditions needed for a
future full implementation and scaling up of potential solutions. Pilots will provide new quantitative and qualitative data that
will be combined with official statistics and novel data gathered by the use of self-developed IT applications and the
exploitation of previously untapped data sources. The implementation of advanced econometric methods and the pioneering
introduction of machine-learning tools into tourism research will push the boundaries of our knowledge. Findings will enable
us to suggest recommendations for effective and sustainable policies, create new synergies among public and private
stakeholders and new investments, including Structural Funds
| Acronym | INCULTUM |
|---|---|
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 01/05/2021 → 30/04/2024 |