ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the solutions and methods explored by the INCULTUM pilot projects to develop sustainable cultural tourism based on cooperation and participatory approaches, using the attachment of local communities to their heritage as a lever. The perspective shared by these experiments is to consider tourism as a tool of strengthening the resilience of local communities and their living environment. The innovation framework is based on the concepts of territorial common goods and heritage communities. The conceptual model developed as part of INCULTUM meets the iterative requirement expressed by the innovation helix models: one turn of the wheel strengthens the involvement, skills and contribution of the stakeholders, which, in a virtuous process, enables the next turn to be approached with more favourable initial conditions.
