Word of welcomeNikos Kalogeris, Sous-préfet de la région de La CanéeSpyros Sofianos, président de la Chambre Technique de Grèce – Département de l'ouest de la CrèteTable ronde inaugurale | Opening roundtable...

Nektarios Kefalogiannis, architectural engineer at the Technical University of Crete, chairs this second session, which explores the relationship between mass tourism and cultural tourism. These two tourism practices, often seen as incompatible, are not read here in a dichotomous way: rather, the proposals question the spaces and times in which these logics meet. Through them, heritage issues enter int...

Amalia Kotsaki, Professor of Architecture at the University of Chania, is chairing a session on the challenges of heritage tourism and the social and urban transformations it brings to local areas. Through a variety of case studies, this session explores the relationship between visitors and residents of territories and destinations. Shengxi Zeng will talk about the ways in which the Burmese people hav...

​​Amalia Kotsaki, professor at the Technical University of Crete, is chairing this session devoted to the rediscovery of neglected territories, both in the spatial and symbolic sense. Taking into account heritages hitherto little explored by tourism is creating original heritage dynamics that the presenters in this session are keen to explore. Kallipoli Rapti describes action research into the tourism ...

Lucie K. Morisset, professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, chairs this two-part session on post-colonialism. The patrimonialization of colonial legacies raises the question of the survival of processes of domination over time, and of the reappropriation by local communities of some of these legacies. François Jeandillou provides an historical analysis of the construction of heritage in the Ne...

Maria Gravari-Barbas, professor at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, addresses the question of heritage and tourism on the margins, in tension or emerging. Gustavo Bosquette examines the tourism and heritage aspects of a tragic event in Brazil, the collapse of the Brumadinho dam, which claimed 272 lives. Yannick Vialette examines the heritage of scientific legacies in the tourism of mountain area...