Summer/ Winter Schools
2025
Digital media for island tourism. The case of Madeira and its heritage
2024
Sustainable tourism and digital media
USI UNESCO Chair organized one of the Summer Schools offered by the Swiss Study Foundation to the smartest students of any faculty. The main goal was to understand how digital media can help to address current sensitive issues in tourism at heritage places such as cultural and social sustainability.
2024
Digital media for tourism in Creative Cities: Experiences from the Center of Portugal
In collaboration with the University of Coimbra, it will explore the role of digital media in enhancing urban sustainable development within the frame of the UNESCO Creative Cities progamme.
2023
A new Grand Tour in Tuscany
Together with the Università di Pisa, the aim of this Winter School was to offer, in one of the most attractive environmental, monumental and landscape contexts in Italy, a highly educational experience.
2022
IMAGINE
Several destinations in Indonesia, in collaboration with Trisakti School of Tourism (Indonesia)
2022
Digital Cultural Tourism and Diplomacy
The 1st edition of the USI UNESCO Chair Winter School will be realized in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology in February 2022 (Limassol/ Cyprus).
2020 (Southern Summer school)
Digital Communication of indigenous African heritage and fashion
Several destinations in Namibia, in collaboration with the University of Namibia (Namibia) and the University of Turku
2019
LeVERAGE ICTs for Tourism
Lugano & Val Müstair (Switzerland)
2018
Co-creating on the road ICT solutions to promote sustainable Tourism in World Heritage Sites
Several destinations in Southen Finland, in collaboration with he University of Turku
2017
ICT2ST4D
Hangzhou (China), in collaboration with Zheijang University
2016
ICT4ulT
Armeno (Italy)
2015
ICTs to Promote Sustainable Tourism
Milano (Italy), in collaboration with the University Milano-Biccoca
2014
IDEAL Tourism