CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SUBSIDIARITY: THE CASE OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

1 Many thanks to members of the staff of the Committee for Culture and Education at the European Parliament for agreeing to answer our questions. Many thanks to all the experts interviewed in the context of PICTURE and those that returned a questionnaire. This article has been prepared in the framework of the PICTURE project ‘Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies’. The PICTURE project is financed by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme of Research, under the theme ‘Policy support and anticipating scientific and technological needs’, Priority 3 ‘Underpinning the economic potential and cohesion of a larger and more integrated European Union’, Topic 3.6. ‘The protection of cultural heritage and associated conservation strategies’. The contract number of the PICTURE project is SSP1-CT-2003-502491.