Serious gaming to stimulate participatory urban tourism planning
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Due to the Corona crisis, almost all cultural heritage institutions have seen a huge decline in their visitor numbers; museums as well as galleries, archives, and libraries. This decline relates to all types of visitors and users, but especially to adults and in many cases, it amounts to 50% or more. Even after restrictions were lifted, audiences did not return immediately, and the expectations for the future are not very hopeful.
On Tuesday 8 June, the Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Rotterdam hosted a design session on cultural tourism. The Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Rotterdam is one of six living labs participating in the European project SmartCulTour, funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program. In the session various stakeholders determined how cultural tourism in Rotterdam could be shaped, what knowledge and information would be needed and which stakeholder could play a role in this at a given time. During the session, a 'Miro' board was used.
Three years ago, Hogeschool Inholland began a collaboration with Kenniscentrum Immaterieel Erfgoed Nederland. The research assignment was: How can intangible heritage be positioned in a highly diversified quarter and made attractive to visitors? The West-Kruiskade in Rotterdam became a laboratory for several lines of research in which lecturers from the Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Rotterdam are closely involved.
POW! WOW! Rotterdam is a global street art festival that originated in Hawaii.