Sustainable and Digital Transformation to Revitalize Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sector
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 3237
Special Issue Editors
Interests: service innovation; sustainable development; quality management
Interests: management of sustainability innovation; circular economy; smart city
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainability and circular economy; quality and innovation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cultural heritage represents a pillar for human well-being, and its transformative power for society, quality of life and human development is recognized in the Faro Convention (2005). It was also emphasized by Agenda 2030, which includes a target to “strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage” (SDG 11.4).
Despite this, the valuable cultural heritage transformative input for society has been strongly challenged in this time of global crisis and human suffering generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency has negatively affected societal well-being and triggered a global economic crisis for cultural heritage management and cultural tourism. Travel restrictions and forced closures of cultural heritage all over the world produced the loss of revenue for service providers, generating cuts to human resources and sustainable projects. Besides, it has negatively impacted the visitor’s motivation to enjoy cultural experiences and promote them.
In this picture, innovation becomes a pivotal element to re-launch the sector, starting the value creation process of all the involved stakeholders again. Therefore, the Special Issue aims to collect research, discussions, and contributions to identify new routes to reactivate the cultural heritage ability to create economic and social value through innovation.
We invite researchers to submit original papers that include conceptual, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Conceptual papers addressing the role of innovation within the cultural heritage ecosystem at the macro-meso-micro level.
- Multi-stakeholders research on outcomes and benefits generated by service innovation and technological innovation
- Investigations on how innovation and digital transformation can contribute to re-launch cultural tourism and cultural heritage visits during and after the pandemic
- Cultural heritage and social innovation to foster the transformative service research
- Policy and strategy to push towards the sustainable management of cultural heritage and cultural tourism in line with the Agenda 2030
- Model of risk analysis to improve cultural heritage management after the pandemic
- Cultural visitors and tourists’ expectations and perceptions
- Technological innovation to improve visitors’ experiences
- SLCA and LCA application to cultural heritage sites
Dr. Laura Di Pietro
Dr. Gabriella Arcese
Prof. Dr. Stefano Poponi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural heritage
- cultural tourism
- innovation
- service innovation
- technology innovation
- sustainable development
- digital transformation
- transformative service research
- SLCA
- LCA
- COVID-19 pandemic
