Crossroads of Europe – Pavia 2012

Presentations made at the Conference

Session I

• "Cultural tourism and local development" [142 KB]
  Mr Greg RICHARDS, Tourism Research & marketing
• "Tourism linking cultures on the Silk Road" [7 MB]
  Ms Johanna DEVINE, United nations World Tourism Organization
• "The Green Band and citizenship" [689 KB]
  Mr Antoine SELOSSE, European Cultural Route of St Martin de Tours
• "Landscape and the Casa Dei sites" [89 KB] Mr Robert FLAURAUD, President of the Casa-Dei European Network
• "Historic hotels : a new way to discover cultural routes" [7 MB]
  Ms Barbara AVDIS, Historic hotels of Europe
• "Danube Cultural Routes" [2 MB]
  Mr Boris CAMERNIK, General Secretary of the Danube Competence Centre

Session II

• "Youth hostels project"
  Ms Luciana RUFFINELLI, Regional Minister for Sports and Youth, Regione Lombardia
• "TripAdvisor and the Silk Road experience" [3 MB]
  Ms Helena EGAN, TripAdvisor
• "Sustainable Tourism and public-private partnerships along the Via Francigena : the PerViam project"
  Mr Massimo TEDESCHI, President of European Association Via Francigene
• "Odyssea : a platform for cultural routes"
  Ms Christine STEFANINI, Groupement Odyssea
• "Augmented reality Windows, Clunypedia and Cultural Routes : the experience of Cluny"
  Mr Christophe VOROS, Director of the Federation of the Cluniac sites
• "Innovation on the promotion of local economy through cultural tourism" [3 MB]
  Mr Antonio COCCO, Director-General of ISNART-Unioncamere (National Institute for Tourism Research)

Session III

• "The index on the accessibility of the Commission"
  Mr Paolo BERRO, Advisor to Vice-President Tajani, European Commission
• "Tourism and Accessibility" [203 KB]
  Ms Antonella CORRERA, European Commission
• "Working to make Tourism accessible for all" [4 MB]
  Ms Annagrazia LAURA, Member of the Board of the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT)
• "Facilitating the participation of people with disabilities to the Saint James Walk in Catalonia" [3 MB]
  Ms Blanca CROS, Marketing Responsible for Cultural and Accessible Tourism in the Catalan Tourist Board
• "Accessible greenways" [4 MB] Ms Mercedes MUNOZ, Director of European Greenways Associations

Session IV

• "The European Parliament's vision on cultural Tourism"
  Mr Carlo FIDANZA, Member of European Parliament, Transport and Tourism Committee.
• "The religious dimension of intercultural dialogue"
  Ms Anne BRASSEUR, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• "European Cultural Routes : much more than Tourism"
  Ms Penelope DENU, Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes
• "The experience of the Itralian Consulta degli itinerari storici, culturali e religiosi" [5 MB]
  Ms Simonetta BONITO, Italian Ministry for Culture
• "The Masterplan of regione Toscane"
  Ms Cristina SCALETTI, Reginal Minister for Tourism, Culture and Tertiary Sector, Tuscany Region

Looking for partnership ?

• Are you managing a cultural route?
• Do you have a tourism project idea?
• Are you organising walks or travels?
• Are you renting rooms?

Get in contact with possible partners and join your efforts to promote your activities around a cultural route!

Bilateral meetings and networking opportunities are being organised on the 8th June at the Castle "Visconteo" of Pavia :

• From 13:00 to 17:00 on Thursday
• From 09:30 to 17:00 on Friday and Saturday
• From 09:30 to 12:30 on Sunday

How?

Fill in the attached form [41 KB] (UPDATED) about your project and return it by email to entr-tourism@ec.europa.eu

We will publish it together with your contact details and call for partners

Have you already identified a possible partner for your project idea?

Contact him/her to arrange a meeting and inform us by email to book a meeting space.