Cognition-Affection in Tourism for Cultural Heritage – CATCH

[Rosa Capozzi]

Cognition-Affection in Tourism for Cultural Heritage – CATCH

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The Coastal Cultural Heritage of the Mediterranean basin is an increasing tourist destination but excessive flows may disnature, defeature or even permanently damage it.

Hence the necessity to promote a cooperating conscious tourism using ICT technologies to enable a bi-directional information between users and administrators aimed at the safeguard of sites through a “cognition-affection” behaviour.

The overall objective is to build a “barometer” model (a real-time detector of ‘what-is-underway’ in terms of conservation state, presence/occupancy intensity, user-site interaction) using case studies in different countries to have a wide response and taking into account different sites and tourists particularities available only at a transnational level; the expected change will be to build ‘resilient’ tourist destinations.

The main outputs will be tools for sites characterizations (sites’ ‘ID card’); tools for ‘tourist-site’ interaction and a “barometer” model.

The end-users of project results will be the Cultural Heritage Administrations; project activities will involve visitors as information providers and, after conclusion, indirect beneficiaries of improved visit environments and experiences.

The main results indexes will be the improvement in the use of hinterland destinations (increase in visitors’ number), the dilution of coastal tourism flows in more months (seasonal peak reduction) and a general increase in overall visits in the whole regions.

We are looking for:

-) Design and development of smartphone apps (for communicating touristic information to final users/tourists);

-) Design and development of software for economic platforms (Raspberry like) that interacts with smartphone for exchanging information.

Proponent:
National Research Council of Italy: Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione, Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione, Istituto di Nanotecnologie, Istituto per la Conservazione e la Valorizzazione dei Beni culturali.

Suggested partners (to be possibly engaged): Municipalities, Regions, Archaeological Parks, Natural Areas, ICT companies, Tour Operators, etc…

Looking forward to receiving your feedback,
please accept our kindest regards

Drs. Rosa Capozzi
Institute For Applied Mathematics
National Research Council

Contacts:
r.capozzi@ba.iac.cnr.it
a.montanaro@ba.iac.cnr.it
attolico@ba.issia.cnr.it
Maiellaro@itc.cnr.it

[Rosa Capozzi]

Other partners we are looking for:

– Municipalities, for access to sites

– other heritage administrators and managers (‘Soprintendenze’, ‘Curia’), for access to sites and as information providers

– Universities and Research Institutions (Faculties of Economics/Tourism Economics, Archaeology) for sites’ characterization and flow analyses.

[Sinisa Zulic]

Dear Mrs. Rosa,

We are the City of Buzet’s tourist bord from Republic of Croatia and we are organized as a legal entity that operates as part of the regional and national tourist offices in order to strenghten and promote tourism and the economic interests of legal entities and individuals in the field of tourism. City of Buzet’s tourist board area of activity is based on the principle of general utility without generating any profit. Our goal is to improve the general conditions of tourists overnight’s stay and especially improving the quality of tourism and other complementary services, preserve and create a recognizable and attractive tourist environment and ensuring tourist hospitality in the City of Buzet and the promotion of City of Buzet’s area main products.
We are very interested to be a part of your project and we are ready to act as a partner. If you are interested in our partnership proposal please feel free to contact us on: sinisa.zulic@gmail.com
Looking forward to our cooperation.

Best regards,
Sinisa Zulic, president of the Buzet tourist board

[DiphuelvaParticipant]

Dear Rosa,

My name is Vicente Ríos, Technician of the Local Development Service of the County Council of Huelva.

Huelva is a Province integrated for 79 municipalities in the region of Andalusia, south of Spain.

We would be very interested to participate in your proposal in the next call for projects of MED Programme as a partner.

We have a long experience in European Projects about tourism, SMEs, Innovation, Energy, Employment etc.

Feel free to contact us to discuss your ideas

Best regards

vrios@diphuelva.org

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