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ICH Tourism Dialogue #8 – Nationalised Heritagisation Discourse in the Arabian Gulf Region with AlAnood AlShaikh and Saad Hanif Save the date Dialogue#8ICH Tourism dialoguesNews

ICH Tourism Dialogue #8 – Nationalised Heritagisation Discourse in the Arabian Gulf Region with AlAnood AlShaikh and Saad Hanif

Nationalised Heritagisation Discourse in the Arabian Gulf Region The curation of cultural festivals within heritage sites became an ongoing phenomenon in contemporary heritage management, acting as a crucial interface between local heritage preservation and state-led tourism. This phenomenon, often characterised as a ‘staged heritage’ paradigm, is driven by the need…
Oceane Lesot
July 27, 2026
ICH Tourism dialogues: conversations on Living Heritage and Tourism Creative Commons - Author: HoangvantoanajcICH Tourism dialoguesNews

ICH Tourism dialogues: conversations on Living Heritage and Tourism

Interdisciplinary Conversations on Living Heritage and Tourism Following the avenues opened up for dialogue and collaborations among diverse stakeholders by the web dossier on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, the ICH NGO Forum Working Group on sustainable ICH Tourism holds a series of conversations looking to expand the scope of our…
ICH NGO Forum
May 28, 2026
ICH Tourism Dialogue #6 – Noël Salazar ICH Tourism dialoguesNewsresearch

ICH Tourism Dialogue #6 – Noël Salazar

The evolving nexus of intangible cultural heritage and tourism Noël Salazar is professor of social and cultural anthropology at KU Leuven and founder of the Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) research cluster. His work focuses on the evolving relationships between heritage, tourism and mobility, drawing on extensive ethnographic research in contexts…
Jorijn Neyrinck
August 29, 2025
Dialogue #5 – Dr. Ivan Henares on the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism ICH Tourism dialoguesNews

Dialogue #5 – Dr. Ivan Henares on the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism

In this dialogue, Dr. Ivan Henares, President of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee (ICTC), presents and discusses the ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism (2022), a key framework promoting responsible tourism grounded in heritage protection, community resilience, and sustainability. The conversation explores how the Charter responds to contemporary…
Jorijn Neyrinck
June 15, 2025
ICH Tourism Dialogues #4 Dialogue on action research experiences in tourism and living heritage ICH Tourism dialoguesNews

ICH Tourism Dialogues #4 Dialogue on action research experiences in tourism and living heritage

This dialogue explored how action research can create sustainable tourism that respects living heritage. Ruzanna Tsaturyan and Ketevan Gurchiani shared experiences from their work with the Smithsonian’s My Armenia and Mukhrani Village projects, showing how deep community collaboration can transform tourism into a force for cultural safeguarding and local empowerment.…
Jorijn Neyrinck
May 6, 2025
Interdisciplinary Conversations on Living Heritage and Tourism continue Creative Commons - Author: HoangvantoanajcICH Tourism dialoguesNews

Interdisciplinary Conversations on Living Heritage and Tourism continue

Following the new avenues opened up for dialogue and collaborations among diverse stakeholders by the web dossier on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, the ICH NGO Forum Working Group on sustainable ICH Tourism initiates in 2024 a series of conversations looking to expand the scope of our understanding of the relationship between…
ICH NGO Forum
October 1, 2024
Dialogue #1 Halle Butvin ICH Tourism dialogues

Dialogue #1 Halle Butvin

The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit that aims to promote greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world.  Every year since its inception in 1967, the Center has organised the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a two-week…
ICH NGO Forum
March 18, 2024