Abstract
Modern Civilization is in jeopardy due to global problems (biodiversity loss, climate crisis, financial crisis, diseases). What is needed are global frameworks and innovative tools for keeping body and soul together. The desideratum, therefore, is a collective contribution from the three basic achievements of humanity (Science, Spirituality, Fine Arts); and last but not least, from the six fundamental resources (people, ideas, material reality, the planet, finance.) To these must be added three temporal parameters (past, present, future.) Cultural Heritage, Sustainable tourism, UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage, One Belt-One Road, China’s century, 4th Industrial Revolution, Sustainable Development, Ecological Civilization are among the insightful ingredients for compounding the formula for the future (“The Recipe For The Future”). Current research enhances the added value of the above ingredients, delivering frameworks and tools such as Innovative Tradition, karma, Tourism for the Future, etc., based on reality checks, original monitoring compilations (human activity sectors; modern societal priorities; humanistic awareness parameters; sustainable indicators; perennial skills), paradigms and tangible models via for the most part uncommon methodologies. What is eventually suggested are practical steps towards implementation—with Sustainable tourism becoming the global “soapbox” for humanity’s well-being, moving ordinary travelers towards Sustainable Development, making them instigators of Ecological Civilization, cultural pilgrims, active citizens, re-baptizing them netizens/earthlings on a PEACEFUL planet.
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Abbreviations
- BRI:
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Belt and road initiative
- CH:
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Cultural heritage
- EC:
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Ecological civilization
- GSC:
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Global short circuit
- HC:
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Human civilization
- ICH:
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Intangible cultural heritage
- IT:
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Innovative tradition
- OC:
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Original compilation
- SD:
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Sustainable development
- SDHA:
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Sustainable development holistic accelerator
- St:
-
Sustainable tourism
- TF:
-
Tourism for the future
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Acknowledgements
Many more bits of information than meet the mind have formed this research; some of them recognizable and citable but the majority lost in the chaotic ways the human mind works.
The whole research is inspired by
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“A book entitled a short History of the World by H.B. Wells (1933)…” 1933, Greek edition by Neos Kosmos journal edition. The book firmly focuses on the victory of the hunting nomads over the agriculturists/migratory cattle farmers/settlers.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, 2012
Continuous back and forth from past to present and future, from science to fine arts and spirituality, from figures to songs (still haunted by “The Green hills of Earth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRAG16mrkxA), from global maps to tiny relics of culture hidden in the sand, eventually crafted this research. All this information has been offered by people, books, and rags of ideas, fractions of time, places and opinions. To all these I owe significant gratitude—at least.
Last but not least, I owe eternal and multilevel acknowledgements to my muse for life, Nausicaa, obviously my being Odysseus.
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Andreopoulos, A. (2023). Sustainable Tourism Development Two Types of Leverage: Innovative Tradition and Tourism for the Future. In: Kostopoulou, S., Herrera-Franco, G., Wood, J., Al-Kodmany, K. (eds) Cities’ Vocabularies and the Sustainable Development of the Silkroads. SRSTDCH 2021. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31027-0_19
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