About the Project

Culture is one of the main attractions of tourism. However, promoting cultural tourism and respecting the values and traditions of local communities must be balanced. Developing sustainable, inclusive cultural & creative tourism models is also very challenging in rural & remote areas, usually suffering from depopulation, lack of services, and the inexistence of social fabric.


You can explore our project through the project website below. As the project commences, our Virtual European Rural Artisans Platform will start growing too.

Research

Goals

  1. Establish a collaborative network to promote cultural tourism in rural & remote areas through crafts & skills.
  2. Revitalise and economically develop local ecosystems through cultural tourism research activities linked to crafts.
  3. Embrace digital tools & technologies as a key platform to enhance productivity, visibility, and impact.
  4. Develop suitable stakeholder engagement tools & clustering actions.
  5. Promote knowledge exchange and contribute to capacity building and P2P learning of local ecosystems as agents of change

Challenges

  1. Development of innovative rural ecosystems.
  2. Material and immaterial cultural heritage linked to contemporary creativity.
  3. Rural heritage in a post-industrial society withoutt losing its identity.
  4. Rural material and immaterial culture verrsus networking.