Testimonies of Quebecois travellers on the artistic and cultural heritage of the city of Bologna in the UniVOCIttà tourist web application
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https://doi.org/10.54103/2282-0035/28612Keywords:
Quebecois travellers, cultural heritage, travel literature, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, cultural tourismAbstract
Since the early 1990s, cultural tourism has evolved to meet the new needs of modern travellers, shifting towards immersive experiences in which tourists play an active part in discovering culture. In this context, literature emerges as a powerful tool for enhancing the touristic value of a territory in the digital age. In this study we report on one aspect of the UniVOCIttà research project (UniVOCIty. Digital voices on the uniqueness of Bologna’s heritage), which aims to promote the artistic, cultural and natural heritage of the city of Bologna and its surroundings through a multilingual corpus of travel narratives. We present the French corpus et the Quebec sub-corpus, which currently includes texts written between the 19th and 21st centuries by nine visitors from Quebec united by their sense of wonder, admiration and desire to discover Bologna’s artistic, religious and cultural heritage. Through the analysis of these testimonies, we explore their original perception and show how the integration of these texts into a georeferenced itinerary on the UniVOCIttà mobile web application fosters an intercultural dialogue between North American visitors and Bolognese, and more broadly, Italian residents, inviting them to rediscover their own heritage through a foreign gaze.
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