The theme of this year’s edition of Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards is “Smart Tourism – Smart Destinations: Cultural Heritage & Creativity, Digitalisation, Sustainability”. The Awards will be given to cultural tourist destinations which have produced significant results such as enhancing the visitor experience, respecting traditions and involving local communities.
Applications are open to all tourist destinations across Europe, national, regional and local authorities, tourism boards and associations, destination management organizations, museums, interpretation centers, cultural routes, festivals and cultural NGOs.
The candidates are invited to showcase results concerning sustainable cultural tourism, under one of the following 6 categories:
- Digitalisation advances and digital transition in Sustainable Cultural Tourism
- History and Heritage
- Riverside heritage
- Transnational Thematic Tourism Products, including European Cultural Routes (involving at least 2 European countries, not necessarily neighbouring)
- Religious, Pilgrimage and Spiritual Tourism
- Traditional Skills, Crafts and Creativity (on the occasion of the European Year of Skills 2023)
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, which will take place during the 16th International Conference for Cultural Tourism. The event will be organized by ECTN on 18th-21st October 2023 in Pafos (Cyprus), as an acknowledgment of the award as “European Capital of Smart Tourism 2023”.
Tags: ETC, European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN), Europa Nostra, Network of European Regions for Competitive and Sustainable Tourism
