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Including the Afrikaanderwijk in hybrid events

Over the past few months, we worked on a project with Rotterdam Make It Happen to answer the pressing question of what concepts/innovations/experiences could engage 45- to 65-year-old residents of the Afrikaanderwijk in future international hybrid events?

ESC Blog

Katendrecht: from red light district to unrecognisable neighbourhood

From the red light district and Chinatown to an almost unrecognisable neighbourhood. How do you organise a hybrid event for a neighbourhood?

CRISP project

Involving people with heritage

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.

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Design session cultural tourism Rotterdam

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.

Inaugural lecture

Ko Koens delivers inaugural address on reframing urban tourism

The coronavirus has turned tourism in cities upside down. The empty streets and squares invited us to think about how we deal with large numbers of visitors. Will we go back to our old ways in the future, or do we want change? Ko Koens, professor of New Urban Tourism, argues for the latter. In his inaugural lecture on 2 June, he outlined the possibilities of a radically different perspective. Look at tourism as an integral part of multiple processes that can make cities better. ‘We’re doing this in Rotterdam with the motto that actions speak louder than words. Together with students, we are exploring the possibilities in practice.’

Publication

Overtourism and employment outcomes for the tourism worker: impacts to labour markets

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The Living Lab of Rotterdam is one of six living labs participating in the European project SmartCulTour

West-Kruiskade

How can intangible heritage be secured and combined with tourism in a city as highly diversified as Rotterdam?

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.

Interview with Dave Vanderheijden

How can we ensure that the POW! WOW! Rotterdam festival will be attractive to young people?

POW! WOW! Rotterdam is a global street art festival that originated in Hawaii.

Digital Twin

How can the municipality of Rotterdam best deploy 3D Digital Twin?

With the Digital City project, the municipality of Rotterdam is investigating the opportunities and threats of digitization. Part of the project is the 3D Digital Twin. A digital representation of Rotterdam on which all fixed objects - such as houses, trees and benches - can be seen. This twin of the city is supplemented with data and therefore provides valuable information. Which parking spaces are occupied? How long is a lamp post burning?