Abstract
The prevalence of a series of megatrends and challenges such as climate change, overtourism and health crisis, have demonstrated even more the necessity to shift from the current mass and overcrowded, spatially concentrated tourism models to less crowded, more spatially dispersed, and secure environments. This tendency pushed island destinations to rethink their tourism profiles. Nonetheless, the majority of island communities depend on tourism for their economic well-being, which requires rethinking the highly appreciated island tourism destinations’ strategies towards more sustainable models. According to European policies and academics, alternative forms of tourism, such as cultural tourism, seem to be the solution for achieving this objective, also by including participatory practises in local communities. Starting from these considerations, this work presents the ongoing ISL project (Forming interdisciplinary Island Communities of Practice operating for sustainable cultural tourIsm models). This paper describes a general overview of the ISL Project which purpose is to offer innovative high quality participatory tools to (i) promote awareness and mobilise local communities and stakeholders on their cultural identity, cultural awareness and their social and historical heritage and (ii) support social and territorial cohesion of island communities at a local and trans-island/transnational level by promoting participatory cultural tourism schemes.
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This study was supported by the project “ISL - Forming interdisciplinary Island Communities of Practice operating for sustainable cultural tourIsm models”, small scale Erasmus+ project (KA210-ADU-6B12071A), DE02 - Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung. This study was also supported by the project “ISL+, People-oriented, place-based and locally driven planning approach supporting island cultural tourism development”, Erasmus+ project (KA220-ADU - Cooperation partnerships in adult education), DE02 - Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Project under evaluation).
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Koutsi D. devised the main conceptual ideas of the ISL project, and in collaboration with Mougiakou E., and Tsadari, S., structured the methodological steps of the project idea. Hörster S., and Flade K., designed and conducted the co-creation workshop of the project in Berlin. Garau C., and Degosus G., drafted the manuscript and prepared the figures included in this publication. All authors provided feedback and reviewed the final manuscript.
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Koutsi, D. et al. (2023). Building Island Communities of Practice for Achieving Local Sustainable Cultural Tourism Objectives. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37123-3_24
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