Agenda and Past Events
presentations, guest lectures, master classes, conferences and moreAgenda 2023
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Strategy & Story MasterClass
About the art and science of storytelling and narrative communication and how to harness the power of storytelling for corporate and private puposes.
By Karin Elgin-Nijhuis
Full day, Utrecht
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Wednesday-Thursday, 3-4 May 2023
Strategy & Story MasterClass
About the art and science of storytelling and narrative communication and how to harness the power of storytelling for corporate and private puposes.
By Karin Elgin-Nijhuis
The Hague
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Agenda 2021
Wednesday 3 February, 7 April, 9 June, 15 September
and 27 October 2021
HTHIC Heritage & Slow TourismLAB
Presentations | Livecast via Zoom
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Tuesday, 18 February 2021
Centre for Global Heritage and Development
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities’ Re-Scape Colloquium
“COVID-19 and Its Effect on Mass Tourism in World Heritage Cities”
Karin Elgin-Nijhuis will be speaking about:
“From #RestartTourism to #BuildBackBetter.
Trends in thinking about post-COVID tourism. Some observations”
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Friday, 7 May 2021
“Travel to Yourself”
Webinar on modern pilgrimage
“Matka Itseen – Webinaari Modernista Pyhiinvaelluksesta”
Business Finland / Visit Finland
Karin Elgin-Nijhuis will be contributing to this webinar and speak about Slow Travel and the Heritage & Slow TourismLAB.
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Agenda 2022
Monday and Tuesday, 4 and 5 April 2022
UNWTO Course on Strategy & Planning for Tourism MSMEs, to be
delivered online by Karin Elgin-Nijhuis, at the request of UNWTO Academy for the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of Croatia, in the framework of the EBRD Programme for facilitating tourism recovery in aftermath of Covid-19.
With contributions from b2me’s Mike Newman.
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February 2022
Publication of the
“Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media”
Editors: Silvia De Ascaniis and Lorenzo Cantoni, USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, Lugano, Switzerland
Includes the chapter:
“Digital media can CONNECT residents, visitors, and heritage”
about heritage interpretation and storytelling
Authors: Silvia De Ascaniis and Karin Elgin-Nijhuis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 978 1 78897 007 5
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Past Events
Volos | Masqat | The Hague | Haarlem | Lugano | Middelburg | Fatima | Leeuwarden | Pori | Zutphen | Bruges | Reykjavik | Deventer | Rotterdam | Teheran | Isfahan | Rotterdam | Harare | Tarragona | Bogota | Zadar | Algiers | Berlin | Almere | Valetta | Lech | Moscow | The Hague | San Juan | Dakar | Innsbruck | Colombo | Trento | Athens | Groningen | Ocho Rios | Leeuwarden | Budapest | Amsterdam | Bistrampolis | Istanbul | Deventer | Damascus | Schwarzenberg | Cairo | …
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