Maietti, F. Heritage Enhancement through Digital Tools for Sustainable Fruition—A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability2023, 15, 11799.
Maietti, F. Heritage Enhancement through Digital Tools for Sustainable Fruition—A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability 2023, 15, 11799.
Maietti, F. Heritage Enhancement through Digital Tools for Sustainable Fruition—A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability2023, 15, 11799.
Maietti, F. Heritage Enhancement through Digital Tools for Sustainable Fruition—A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability 2023, 15, 11799.
Abstract
Digital technologies are becoming increasingly relevant in the processes of documenting, surveying, enhancing and preserving Cultural Heritage, also through applications that are increasingly optimized and oriented towards new data management and accessibility processes. This great potential can find significant levels of application in the tourism sector, seeking new strategies to access, discover, understand cultural assets. In this direction, many digital applications have already found interesting outcomes in the tourism sector, but there is large room for improvement in the applications for “minor”, small or neglected cultural sites, not included in conventional tourism routes, which play a key-role in social inclusion and territorial cohesion, and for the development of social, economic and environmental sustainability. The paper presents a conceptual framework or possible outline to foster the use of digital technologies through a set of integrated bottom-up and top-down actions, to facilitate connections of minor sites into larger networks, contributing to search for new forms of active fruition and social participation.
Keywords
digital heritage; sustainable tourism development; minor heritage sites; heritage enhancement; digital tools; social inclusion
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Architecture
Copyright:
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