Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites (vol. 3)
- Enrollment
- From Feb. 22, 2021 to Jan. 1, 2023
- Course
- From May 24, 2021 to Jan. 1, 2023
- Languages
- Arabic and english
Course plan
- Week 1 : The 1972 and 2003 UNESCO Conventions and the Concept of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)
- Week 2 : UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Site Management Systems
- Week 3 : Local Communities’ Involvement and Sustainable Tourism
- Week 4 : Marketing
- Week 5 : Interpretation. Stories and Memories
- Week 6 : Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Orchestrating Them for Heritage Tourism
The MOOC “Challenges and Perspectives of African Heritage” coproduced by the UNESCO Chair “Culture Tourism, Development” with the participation of colleagues of the UNITWIN network. If you want to join (as well as your students) the 4 200 learners of the MOOC it is still possible. The MOOC will remain open till March 31rst 2022. It is possible for your students to follow all 7 chapters opened till now and the 8th chapter starting tomorrow, Monday Feb 28th, as well as to answer to the quizzes and obtain the MOOC certificate.
If you do not have the possibility to do this now, no worries, the MOOC will open again in October 2022.
You can register here:
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/defis-et-perspectives-du-patrimoine-africain/
The list of the chapters is as follows:
Chapter 1 : Notions of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Africa
Chapter 2 : Challenges and Strategies for the Development of African Heritage
Chapter 3 : Tourism Economy and Heritage Marketing
Chapter 4 : Cultural and Natural World Heritage System : The 1972 UNESCO Convention in the African Context
Chapter 5 : African Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in the Globalization Process
Chapter 6 : Museum Management in Africa. Challenges and Perspectives
Chapter 7 : Spoliations, restitution and return of African cultural properties
Chapter 8 : ICT for African Heritage
