H2020 TExTOUR Project _Rethinking Cultural Tourism in Europe and beyond
Social Innovation and TEchnologies for sustainable growth through participative cultural TOURism
TExTOUR is an EU-funded project which co-designs pioneering and sustainable cultural tourism strategies and policies. The ultimate goal is to improve deprived areas in Europe and beyond.To do this, it will work with eight Cultural Tourism Labs located in different EU and non-EU areas and involving various societal players and stakeholders with a relevant role in the in the Cultural Tourism sector, including GAIA-Heritage.
The selected pilots have diverse and complementary characteristics, which will enable the project’s experts to develop a wide range of scenarios for continental and coastal areas, rural and urban, deprived remote or peripheral areas, facing multiple social, economic and environmental challenges.
Led by Fundación Santa María la Real, Spain, the project kicked off in January 2021. The project has 18 partners, representing the quintuple social innovation helix: knowledge, business, society, government and entrepreneurs.
The eight TExTOUR pilots are:
- UNESCO site of Crespi d’Adda – Lombardy Region (Italy)
- Narva post-industrial Kreenholm district (Estonia, Russia)
- Transnational cultural landscape of Umgebindeland (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic)
- European cultural route of VIA REGIA (Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France, Spain)
- TREBINJE environs (Bosnia- Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia)
- Historic silver and lead post-mining facilities in Tarnowskie Góry – Upper Silesia Region (Poland)
- Cross border UNESCO site of Vale do Coa – Siega Verde (Portugal-Spain)
- Anfeh protected area (Lebanon) and the mountain village of Fikardou (Cyprus)
GAIA-Heritage leads the Pilot case of Anfeh and Fikardou : It will accompany Hima Anfeh in aspects related to cultural tourism management and socio-economic development. GAIA-heritage will also be in charge of making the link with Fikardou and will oversee the exchange of experiences between both areas for an improved adapted tourism management. It also aims at adjusting cultural tourism through the use of modern technologies in a way that improves its contribution to the maintenance and development of places and surroundings in both villages.
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