What is it about?
Cultural heritage is an important factor in ensuring regional development. Practice has demonstrated that first sustainability of heritage sites needs to be ensured and tourism they generate should also be re-visited as current over-tourism models are unsustainable. The assumption is that cultural/creative industries (CCI) can be a powerful tool for heritage livability as well as for sustainable tourism based on experiences. In order to stimulate regional development, specific CCI measures are often introduced in public policies but results of policy interventions are rarely monitored. Their performance can be measured against the pre-set indicators. Research studies focusing on such indicators are scarce. This short communication provides a possible conceptual framework alongside concrete indicators for cultural/creative industries’ sector impact assessment on cultural heritage and sustainable experiential tourism on the policy as well as on the project level. Desk research and brainstorming methods were applied to design the indicator sets resulting in a tool which is to be further tested and used in practice.
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Why is it important?
This short communication provides a possible conceptual framework alongside concrete indicators for cultural/creative industries’ sector impact assessment on cultural heritage and sustainable experiential tourism on the policy as well as on the project level, which may serve in policy making or in the enhancement of individual projects.
Perspectives
As much as defining indicators might seem boring, they are the necessary tool for project and policy evaluation. I find it absolutely necessary since a lot of projects/policies are usually performed without regular monitoring and evaluation, which often results in poor effectiveness.
Daniela Angelina Jelincic
Institute for Development and International Relations
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This page is a summary of: Indicators for Cultural and Creative Industries’ Impact Assessment on Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Sustainability, July 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/su13147732.
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