"Webinar ReInHerit | European Capitals of Culture as a space of connection between tourism, cultural heritage and creative industries."

Delivered by Rita Orlando - Michaela Podolakova - Josephine Hage and moderated by Paolo Montemurro.

friday, september 8, 2023 15:00 16:00

Registration is open until September 7, 2023 (3 p.m.) https://reinherit-hub.eu/news/cbdb7997-a1b7-4079-8240-05f3f73c9ad2

The title of European Capital of Culture has become, in the last decade, a unique opportunity for small and medium-sized cities to enhance their cultural activities, their cultural heritage and their local creative scenes, also boosting tourism and placing them on the European map of destinations.

Increasingly, over the years, candidate cities for the title are reflecting not only on their cultural strategies and offerings, but also on how new forms of tourism could be linked to them in order to be more sustainable, respectful of local heritage and local communities, allowing visitors to fully experience local life and locals not to suffer from gentrification processes and huge changes in their daily habits.

The role of the creative industries as promoters of innovation, fully in line with the concepts of the New European Bauhaus, has become increasingly prominent in the candidacy books of the candidate cities and in the final programs of the selected cities.

The webinar will explore these connections and dimensions by comparing the experiences of three European Capitals of Culture of the past (Kosice 2013), present (Matera 2019) and future (Chemnitz 2025), all with important experiences of connecting tourism, cultural heritage and creative industries and potential examples for future cities.