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