The 17th annual conference of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) held in Dublin from 23 to 25 October 2024 concluded with a great success. The conference was dedicated this year to European cooperation for smart and sustainable tourism and it was supported by the Dublin City Council-European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.

One presentation was delivered by coordinator of EUreka3D project and Photoconsortium’s Vice-President Antonella Fresa, who talked about Tourism, archives, and culture: a digitally mediated relationship between preservation and experience, with a specific focus on achieving quality in 3D digitisation. The presentation covers the role of metadata and paradata in digital preservation, presents the 3D Digitisation Guidelines based on the VIGIE Study 2020/654, and explores the whys of 3D digitisation  – help with sustainable tourism, accessibility, preservation of fragile tangible cultural heritage,

The presentation in the conference, available for download, offered a great opportunity to establish many new contacts with organisations and projects from all over Europe, in the scope of contributing to the SECreTour networking efforts.