We have created a section of this web site dedicated to the conference Jewish Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age, which took place in Venice Oct. 23-25.
We have posted a brief report on the conference, and are beginning also to post some of the texts of presentations, as well as media relating to some of the projects and presentations. Fairly soon, we will also be posting the videos of all the presentations.
The conference gathered around 90 participants from all over Europe, as well as from Israel and the United States. The more than 30 speakers ranged from academics and analysts, to tour guides and other tourism professionals, to museum personnel, Jewish community representatives, and other experts and stakeholders.
Organized by Jewish Heritage Europe along with the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe and Beit Venezia, the conference was a specialized follow-up to the working seminar on managing Jewish built heritage held in Krakow in April 2013, and the cross-disciplinary conference on Jewish cemeteries in Europe held in October 2015 in Vilnius.
We organizers wanted the widest possible range of speakers — both geographically and thematically — and it was not an easy task to narrow down a choice of invited speakers. We were therefore delighted that so many other stakeholders and interested individuals registered to attend.
Click here to read a report on the conference