Transnational Portals for Culture Oriented Tourism: the Experience of the Medina Project

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  • Franca Garzotto
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Switzerland ICHIM 03 – European cooperation / Coopération Européenne Abstract Culture-oriented tourists are a new, emerging, category of travelers. They live a vacation as a learning experience-an opportunity to discover unexploited resources of an area, including folk traditions, habits of the everyday life, rituals, history, or gastronomy. They look for original, engaging and customised travelling proposal. The MEDINA project (partially funded by the European commission) aims at developing a transnational web portal to promote culture-oriented tourism in the Mediterranean basin. The portal addresses multiple aspects of cultural heritage, highlighting the local identify of the fourteen Mediterranean countries involved in the project and pinpointing the trans-Mediterranean dimension of their civilizations, their commonalities, and their cross influences. MEDINA will also develop the organizational and technological infrastructure for the sustainability of the portal, after experimental phase. The paper discusses some of the key MEDINA issues Résumé Les touristes culturels sont une catégorie nouvellement émergente de voyageurs. Ils vivent leurs vacances comme une expérience où l'on apprend et l'on découvre toutes les ressources d'une région comme ses traditions, ses habitudes quotidiennes, ses rituels, son histoire et sa gastronomie. Ces touristes cherchent toujours des propositions originales, intéressantes et adaptées à leurs exigences de voyage. Le projet MEDINA, qui est financé en partie par la Communauté Européenne, se propose de développer un portail transnational sur le Web qui puisse encourager le tourisme culturel dans le bassin de la Méditerranée. Le portail représente plusieurs aspects des différents héritages culturels des quatorze pays méditerranéens qui font partie du projet. Il souligne aussi la dimension trans-méditerranéenne de leurs civilisations, leurs racines communes et leurs influences réciproques. Le projet MEDINA développera aussi les infrastructures d'organisation technologique pour la pérennité du portail après la phase expérimentale. Cet article présente quelques parties du projet MEDINA.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003