Rethinking Tourism through Sustainable Cultural Tourism

SmartCulTour Final Conference

24 May 2023 – Brussels (Belgium)

Following the re-start of tourism post-COVID, we are rethinking our approach to cultural tourism, identifying challenges and pinpointing solutions for improving sustainable cultural tourism, based on learnings during COVID. We will introduce SmartCulTour project tools that can support such a “rethink” and share results with key target audiences, experts, stakeholders (national and international), policy-makers and invited participants

Provisional programme


8:30
Welcome coffee


9:00
Introduction to the day


9:05
Opening session


10:15
Coffee break


10:45
Culture and tourism – An integrated approach between culture and tourism sectors in developing sustainable cultural tourism offer


12:00
Lunch


13:30
Urban cultural tourism – Business as usual and back to unsustainable overtourism? Taking stock of Summer 2022 trends – post-COVID!


14:15
The future of rural cultural tourism and its potential to promote rural development


15:00
Tools and methods to achieve Sustainable Cultural Tourism


15:45
Participatory decision-making approaches in cultural tourism policy-making


16:30
Coffee break


17:00
Closing Plenary Policy Round Table on the future of cultural tourism


18:00
Closing remarks

If you wish to participate in our Final Conference, please register online here. Online registration is required. After completing the registration, we will contact you with further information and conference details.