Following the new avenues opened up for dialogue and collaborations among diverse stakeholders by the web dossier on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, the ICH NGO Forum Working Group on sustainable ICH Tourism initiates in 2024 a series of conversations looking to expand the scope of our understanding of the relationship between ICH and tourism.
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The 3rd Dialogue introduces Costanza Fidelbo
4th October 2024 – 3 pm CEST
Costanza Fidelbo has been working on issues related to the protection and promotion of cultural heritage since 2017, first at the Italian Delegation to UNESCO and then at the Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit of UNESCO’s Culture Sector. Since 2020 she has been working as an Associate Programme Specialist in the Culture Unit of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Culture in Europe. Between 2015 and 2017, she worked for the Venice Biennale international art and architecture exhibition.
She holds a Master’s degree in Art History (Sapienza – University of Rome), a Master’s degree in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities (Ca’ Foscari – University of Venice) and since 2020 a degree in Human Rights and Conflict Management at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and is the author of a dissertation on the role of culture and tourism in fostering recovery, resilience and peacebuilding in contexts affected by emergencies.
Within the Culture Unit of the UNESCO Office in Venice, she works on projects related to the promotion of sustainable cultural tourism in Europe and the promotion of European cooperation in the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural goods. Her professional interest in the role of cultural tourism in promoting sustainable local development, as well as peacemaking and peacebuilding in emergency contexts, has been cherished during the implementation of the SmartCulTour – Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions project, funded by the EU as part of the Horizon-2020 programme and completed in June 2023. In this context, UNESCO successfully led the coordination of six living laboratories of sustainable cultural tourism, while raising awareness and developing the capacities of relevant stakeholders for the implementation of relevant international standards for the management and development of sustainable cultural tourism.
