In January 2022, the City of Narva developed a cultural tourism strategy and an action plan that are going to last until 2027. The first action, a workshop involving the local stakeholders, took place in February 2022 and a new collaboration with Tallin University blossomed.

On September 27th 2021, for the World Tourism Day, the Center for Spatial Resarch in collaboration with Museum of Herzegovina organised an event on cultural heritage and sustainable tourism.

Seven projects involved in developing strategies to foster sustainable cultural tourism met on the 11th of March to strengthen the projects collaboration and set strategies for the post-project life of their initiatives.

Finding innovative and sustainable solutions for heritage-based tourism can be challenging. TExTOUR’s Action Cards are a tool designed to show good cultural tourism practices and inspire the project pilots’ work.

The UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology in Cyprus and the UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites at the Università della Svizzera Italiana – USI in Lugano (Switzerland), organized a Winter School on the topic of “Digital Cultural Tourism and Diplomacy”, which ran from the 13th to the 19th February.

Cultural and natural heritage is part of our everyday life but is not truly part of policy protocol. However, the connection between cultural and natural heritage and policy needs to be further explored since it can be the key for rural areas regeneration.