ICOMOS Cultural Tourism

23/06/2026

Our final ICTC Webinar of 2026 is tomorrow!

Join us as we explore Principle 6: Resilience and Principle 7: Climate Action of the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism (2022).

In collaboration with the ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group (CAWG), we'll discuss how heritage tourism can contribute to more resilient communities and meaningful climate action.

📅 24 June 2026
🕐 13:00 CET
🎟️ Free to attend
📲 Register using the QR code below

A wonderful way to conclude this year's journey through the Charter and continue building towards in Kuching.

21/05/2026

We are pleased to invite you to the next session of our webinar series:
“From Principles to Practice: Operationalising the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism (2022)”

This session, co-organised with our colleagues at ICOMOS Africa, will focus on Principles 4 & 5, exploring community engagement, local development, and benefit-sharing through cultural tourism.

🗓 27 May 2026
🕐 13:00 (CEST)

If you have already registered for the webinar series, there is no need to register again. For those who have not yet registered, please do so here:
https://lnkd.in/efQEmbRD

We look forward to a rich discussion, bringing together colleagues and case studies from across regions.

07/05/2026

🔴 Heritage Alert 🔴

ICOMOS, together with its International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C) is issuing a worldwide Heritage Alert to amplify awareness of the threat to the in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.

🏗️ The new U.S. Embassy development should preserve this important heritage, not demolish it. By thoughtfully integrating the remaining historic elements into the new design, this project could set a powerful international example of modern development and historic preservation working hand in hand.

❗ICOMOS is urging stronger legal protections for the site and its individual elements due to their significance as a rare surviving example of socialist realist sports architecture in Eastern Europe. The site’s preservation is critical for national memory and international scholarship.

Help us amplify the call to save Chișinău’s Republican Stadium: https://buff.ly/FQlCX2V



Maia Sandu Alexandru Munteanu

21/04/2026

Call for Abstracts | ICOMOS GA 2026 – Kuala Lumpur

Session S9 – Heritage Ecosystems: Possibilities and Potentials for an Inclusive Systems Approach

Are you working at the intersections of cultural, natural, tangible, and intangible heritage? This is your session.

Jointly organised by ISCCL, ICTC, ICOFORT & ICOMOS Japan, Session S9 invites contributions that explore a heritage ecosystem approach — connecting diverse worldviews, knowledge domains, and rights-holders (including communities, nature, and future generations) in heritage practice.

Building on the Gunma Declaration, we ask:
🔹 How can heritage professionals move beyond disciplinary silos?
🔹 How do ecosystems thinking strengthen local-to-global continuity?
🔹 How do we represent rights-holders beyond humans in heritage decision-making?

📩 Submit your abstract: https://www.icomosga2026.org.my/en/abstract/sessions (Session S9)

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The ICOMOS Scientific Symposium, under the main theme “LIVING HERITAGE: RESPECT, ACCEPT, ENHANCE, PARTNERSHIP,” is designed to foster research and discussion on specialized topics. In direct response to the Triennial Scientific Plan (TSP) 2024–2027 theme, “DISASTER AND CONFLICT RESILIENT HER...