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...