Innovative Pathway on Sustainable Culture Tourism

Tatjana Pivac is a full professor at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management on Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She teaches several courses at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies, relative to cultural heritage, cultural tourism, wine tourism, and event management.  She was Vice Dean for Education on the Faculty of Sciences (2015-2024) and Editor-in-chief of the International Scientific Journal "Turizam" (since 2013). She has been a member of the Executive and Supervisory boards of the Vojvodina Environmental Movement since December 2015, and president of the Board of Directors of the Cluster of Cultural Routes since April 2022. Tatjana is the author and co-authored over 200 papers, 10 monographs, and two books. She participated in numerous national and international projects (INTERREG, ERASMUS+, COST actions, COSME). Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning in Borderlands and is the Vice-Dean for Sustainable Development at WSB University, Poland, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a European Climate Pact Ambassador. He collaborates with several research groups, including ECIDES (UNIR, Spain), VALORIZA (IPP, Portugal, as Vice-Coordinator), CITUR-Madeira (Portugal), and AQUAGEO (UNICAMP, Brazil). A prolific academic, he has authored/edited 20 books, over 130 indexed peer-reviewed papers, 90 book chapters, and 90 conference papers. He has delivered keynote speeches at major international events and was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by UPCI, Lima, Peru. Eliana Martinelli is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia. Since 2012, she has carried out academic and professional research in Italy, Germany, Turkey, and Morocco. In 2017, she completed a PhD in Architectural Composition with honors at the IUAV University of Venice, with the first dissertation in Italy on the work of the Turkish architect Turgut Cansever, later published in the book Recomposing Unity. Turgut Cansever in Istanbul (2022). She has held teaching positions at the Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès (Morocco), SRH Hochschule Heidelberg (Germany), the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and the Federico II University of Naples. She has been a research fellow in the field of architectural and urban regeneration, specializing in memory and the involvement of communities in the enhancement of tangible and intangible heritage. She has published numerous essays and articles, and she is the co-founder of DAr: international biannual journal of architecture in the Islamic world. Eduardo Cândido Cordeiro Gonçalves: Ph.D. in Tourism and Leisure from the Universität Rovira i Virgili (Spain) and Ph.D. in History from the University of Porto (Portugal). Is an Associate Professor of Tourism at the University of Maia (Portugal) of which he was Vice-Rector (2014 to 2021). At the same university, he coordinates the Master's in Tourism, Heritage and Development and directs the  Center for Tourism Development Studies. He is a full researcher at Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (R&D, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal). He is co-Editor-in-chief of PASOS - Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage (ranked Q2 in Scopus). He has more than two hundred publications in international journals, as well as books and book chapters. He has participated as a keynote speaker in numerous events. He was a principal investigator on several projects (publicly funded, i.e. ERDF, European Union). He was co-rapporteur for the candidacy of Bom Jesus do Monte (Braga, Portugal) as a World Heritage Site (classified by UNESCO).The research has been developed with particular reference to questions of governance and tourist destination management.

• Part 1. Sustainability in tourism: Challenges and strategies.- Chapter 1: Embracing Degrowth: A Sustainable Approach to Strategic Planning in Tourism Destinations.- Chapter 2: A nature-based sustainable academic event: White Sands National Park, New Mexico, US.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Tourism Practices in Jordan Protected Areas: Strategies, Technology, and Stakeholder Perspectives.- Chapter 4: Assessing the Challenges of a Talaba Eco-Park and Exploring Opportunities as a Sustainable Community-Based Tourism Destination.- Chapter 5: The Development of Sustainable Tourism: analysing the perceptions of residents in the city of Oporto (Portugal).- Part 2. Cultural heritage and community: Synergy and sustainability.- Chapter 6: HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE CASE OF HISTORIC JEDDAH.- Chapter 7: The Dying and The Reviving: The perceived community resilience of long-term residents under the development of ethnic tourism in Bai ghetto Dali in Yunnan province, China.- Chapter 8: Tourism, Museums and Territory: management and enhancement of heritage resources.- Chapter 9: Making sense of CH as a dynamic entity: observing Venice through the lenses of its erratic heritage.- Chapter 10: Nova Gorica and Gorizia Culture Capital 2025: Opportunity for Tourism enhancement or for Heritage Preservation?.- Chapter 11: Tourism and its impacts: an analysis of the perceptions of residents of Vila do Conde (Portugal).- Chapter 12: Tourist routes in geoparks: The image of the Vis Archipelago geopark (Croatia) from the perspective of the tourist supply.- Chapter 13: Traditional crafts, community engagement and creative tourism: Supporting traditional pottery-making in Crete, Greece.- Chapter 14: The Role of the Local Community in Implementing the Human Circular Tourism: Recommendations, Actions, and Multidimensional Indicators.- Chapter 15: The Touristic Potential of Castrejo Heritage – The Route of Northwestern Portugal’s Castros.- Part 3: Trends and dynamics of tourism.- Chapter 16: Branding Abu Dhabi: an overview.- Chapter 17: Determinants of Development and Contemporary Trends of Leisure Services.- Chapter 18: Integrated HIA Framework to Assess the Transformation of Vernacular Settlements into Tourist Accommodations Combining Tangible and Intangible Factors.- Chapter 19: Learn, stay, work & play. The ‘third place’ of Amsterdam’s architectures of (hybrid) hospitality.- Chapter 20: Can Leadership Styles Affect the Integration to Change and the Commitment to Change? A Case-Study on Employees of Greek Four and Five-Star Hotels.- Chapter21: TOURISM IN DOURO AND AROUND MONCORVO: NEW OPPORTUNITIES.- Chapter 22: Analyzing the dynamics of supply and demand and the impact on a country's economy over the last 5 years: the case of Poland.- Chapter 23: Visitors’ perception of tourist attraction: the case study of Island Koločep, Croatia.- Chapter 24: Organic Solidarity Tourism in a Small Village.- Chapter 25: The Influence Of Social Networks On The Selection Of A Tourist Destination.- Chapter 26: Innovations in cultural tourism for the revitalization of peripheral territories - The case study of San Pellegrino in Alpe.- Chapter 27: Exploration of the Transformation and Development Path of Cultural Resource Management Type Linpan under the Background of Rural Revitalization — Empirical inspiration and thinking of the Daoming Bamboo Village.