Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conference & LAB HTHIC

26/01/2025

HTHIC supports ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (https://www.icomos.org/en). HTHIC's co-founder Karin Elgin-Nijhuis has been a member of and partnered with ICOMOS Netherlands since HTHIC2015 and serves as Voting Expert Member of ICOMOS ICTC, the International Cultural Tourism Committee (https://www.icomosictc.org/). ICTC's latest activities: the Cordoba-Granada study tour and the "International Meeting: Towards a paradigm shift in cultural heritage tourism: the transformational potential of the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism 2022", held December 11-13, 2024 and organized by the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife, ICOMOS and ICOMOS ICTC. More in this newsletter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19BI6GFzQfS0BUrXr3jICYQq7Oc65BngN/view

10/09/2023

Now available: "Virtual Events Management, Theory and Methods for Event Management and Tourism". This book offers the chapter "Planning and Managing a Virtual Event" and a case study on the HTHIC Heritage and Slow TourismLAB. The chapter was written by Burçin Hatipoğlu Kalabay and Karin Elgin-Nijhuis. Many thanks to the editors, Tim Brown and Claire Drakeley. https://www.goodfellowpublishers.com/academic-publishing.php?promoCode=&partnerID=??promoCode=&partnerID=&content=story&fixedmetadataID=&storyID=457.

07/09/2023

HTHIC supports ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and would like to let you know about the collaboration between ICOMOS ICTC, the International Cultural Tourism Committee and the Organization of World Heritage Sites.

ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee

03/07/2023

The equation is clear: Geodiversity lays the foundation for every ecosystem, providing the necessary conditions for life to flourish.
Learn more about biodiversity’s silent partner: https://on.unesco.org/3GG1St7

17/05/2023

A message from our friends at St Olav Waterway. See also the HTHIC Heritage & Slow TourismLAB about this wonderful project.

Have you ever wanted to experience a medieval pilgrimage? In conjunction with Turku’s Medieval Market a guided and dramatized pilgrimage will be organized 29 – 30.6, you can even rent your own costume. 👣👣More information in Finnish: https://keskiajanturku.fi/ajankohtaista/tervetuloa-pyhiinvaellukselle/
Photo: Jouni Lappi

14/05/2023

It’s all about LIGHT! Let's celebrate what can do for all of us. Ahead of Tuesday's Int'l , the invites you to explore the many ways light has influenced life on earth and life beyond our stars: https://on.unesco.org/2T7kBVn

07/04/2023

Hereby the latest news of our St Olav Waterway friends.

The future is a place of refuge.
Mari Leppänen, Bishop of Turku, writes:
"One of the pearls of the archipelago is St. Olav Waterway, which combines unique nature, unhurried travel and interesting history."

“At its best, a pilgrimage can create a deep experience of connection with nature and awaken the desire to act. Action brings hope.”
🙏“What if the future is not full of insecurity, but a place of refuge?”🙏

Read the full article in Finnish with the help of google translate: https://www.centrumbalticum.org/julkaisut/pulloposti/tulevaisuus_on_turvapaikka.6964.news