CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM SUPPLY

The course provides both theoretical tools and case studies, to evaluate the relevance of particularly significant types of cultural properties for the understanding, designing, and management, of tourism systems.

Understanding of the principles, guidelines, procedures, and patterns, governing the inscription of cultural properties on UNESCO's World Heritage lIst

There are none, although it would be recommendable to be familiar with global geography and the main outlines of 20th century history

UNESCO's World Heritage List
(a) the sense of such acknowledgement and its cultural background;
(b) the procedures governing such acknowledgement, the rules about candidatures, evaluations etc.;
(c) normative aspects, institutional commitments and legal consequences of the World Heritage status;
(d) strategies and reforms introduced by UNESCO over the decades to overcome problems related to representativity, balance and credibility.
(e) special lists and List of World Heritage in Danger

In particular:
(a) What does the expression "World Heritage" imply?
(b) How is such a status bestowed on something?
(c) Are there standard criteria cultural properties are expected to meet?
(d) What regulations apply to World Heritage sites and realities?
(e) What are the most complicated or controversial aspects of World Heritage?

1. S. Ferrucci, UNESCO's World Heritage Regime and Its International Influence, Tredition, Hamburg, 2012
2. S. Labadi, A Review of the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List 1994-2004, in Conservation and Management of Archeological Sites, 7, 2 (2005), pp. 89-3. 102 (pdf available in I.S.A.)
4. S. Labadi, UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value, AltaMira Press, Plymouth 2013
5. World Heritage. Sharing Best Practices, UNESCO Publications no 67, 2013

Unless otherwise individually agreed with the teacher, students take a written test
Alternatively, they can INDIVIDUALLY ask the teacher to take the test in the form of an oral interview
There are no differences in the programme to be studied by students who regularly attend the course and ones who do not.

The course consists in:
- lectures;
- workshops on specific themes;
- group work on assigned topics
- possible lectures by external experts

Italian

At the beginning of the course, the teacher shall make the following materials available:
- lecture slides (at the end of each week)
- official documents (conventions, governmental acts, etc.)
- academic publications (papers and books) available open source
- instructions to prepare for the final test

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development