Tourism Uses of the Historic Environment. Know-How Transfer and Quality Management Practices at Community Level

Programme 2000 - 2006 Archimed

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

Heritage per se cannot render a place to a tourist destination. While uncontrolled development results in quality downgrading at some places, other places are unknown. Once heritage values are restored and sustainably managed, the historic environment may serve as an agent for tourism. The project HERODOT aims to research and promote tailor-made heritage strategies for the regions involved, improve heritage presentation tools and methods, the quality of marketing, train experts and local agents on a multidisciplinary basis. A further vital aim is to allow regional actors to collect more experience in international research. Main Activities The project HERODOT aims to: 1. Educate partners by transferring transnational know-how and diffuse a model able to produce quality experiences using the historic environment. Partners create in collaborative scheme a heritage manual with: 2. Heritage Typologies 3. Significance Assessment Process 4. Accessibility Networks 5. Economic Valuation 6. Cultural Heritage Consumption Mix Planning Process 7. Offer partners a distance and e-learning course in tourism planning, heritage management and interpretation along with an e-Library with tourism planning tools 8. Develop methodologies to use the historic environment as an agent for sustainable tourism by producing quality visitor experiences 9. Develop a specific methodology for managing leisure time by creating visitor friendly, physically, economically and intellectually accessible heritage attractions, which meet visitors’ needs and market requirements, while maintaining authenticity and integrity by offering a heritage manual 10. Implement selected demonstration projects in the partner areas 11. Disseminate results on the basis of e- and print media

Expected Results (EN):

• To diffuse planning methods and presentation standards across diverse local, and regional actors. • To create quality visitor experiences in historic environments by managing information with tourism value regarding human cognitive architecture, mental, economic, social and physical accessibility • To render the historic environment to an indispensable component of a holistic tourism product. • To convert in situ and virtual historic environments into an interactive learning space

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Cultural heritage and arts Tourism Education and training

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: The University of The Aegean – IRIS Research Laboratory

Address: 82100 Chios, Greece

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Sicilian Region / Regional Department of The Tourism, of The Sports and Spectacles

Name: Sicilian Region / Regional Department of The Tourism, of The Sports and Spectacles

Address: 90134 Palermo, Italy

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Scuola di Ingegneria - Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Name: Scuola di Ingegneria - Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Address: 85100 Potenza, Italy

Legal status: n/a

University of Bari / Department of Engineering and Management of the Agricultural, Livestock and Forest Systems

Name: University of Bari / Department of Engineering and Management of the Agricultural, Livestock and Forest Systems

Address: 70121 Bari, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Mediterranean University of Reggio Di Calabria, Department of Environmental and Agroforestry Science and Technology

Name: Mediterranean University of Reggio Di Calabria, Department of Environmental and Agroforestry Science and Technology

Address: 89125 Reggio Calabria, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Science and Technology Park of Sicily

Name: Science and Technology Park of Sicily

Address: 90124 Palermo, Italy

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University of Catania / Department of Agricultural Engineering

Name: University of Catania / Department of Agricultural Engineering

Address: 95125 Catania, Italy

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Drama Development S.A. (ANED S.A.)

Name: Drama Development S.A. (ANED S.A.)

Address: 66100 Drama, Greece

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Trihonida Development Agency

Name: Trihonida Development Agency

Address: 30100 AGRINIO, Greece

Legal status: n/a

Development Agency Of Olympia S.A.(AN.OL.SA)

Name: Development Agency Of Olympia S.A.(AN.OL.SA)

Address: 27055 KRESTENA ILIAS, Greece

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Tourism Uses of the Historic Environment. Know-How Transfer and Quality Management Practices at Community Level

Project acronym: HERODOT

Project start date: 2007-05-01

Project end date: 2008-07-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 692 230.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 423 570.00

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2000 - 2006 Archimed

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No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

538 / 538 (100%)

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Tourism Uses of the Historic Environment. Know-How Transfer and Quality Management Practices at Community Level

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