Laboratory for Management in Culture and Tourism

Publications

Book

Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism

Chicago: IGI Global, 2020.

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Management of Culture and Tourism Laboratory conducts fundamental and applied scientific research, devoted to current issues of the development of the culture and creative industries sphere. The main emphasis in the research carried out by the Laboratory staff is placed on the study of socio-economic, managerial and information technology changes that affect cultural organizations.

The Laboratory implements projects on demand of cultural authorities of various levels, as well as a number of international projects in cooperation with foreign universities. The Laboratory participates in programs to attract Russian and foreign postdocs.

The Laboratory attracts students of various master's and bachelor's programs to conduct research, which results in term papers and final thesis, and to organize project activities.

since 2011

II International Scientific and Practical Conference ’Information Technologies in the Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage’

September 10-11, 2026

Museum educational online services: HANDBOOK

The Laboratory has published the first edition of the handbook, which brings together 670 online educational products from museums, offering a wide range of topics for study, including both art history and management.

Museums and visitors: new formats of interaction in the post-lockdown period

The laboratory conducted a survey of 230 museums in order to identify the features of a new approach to interacting with the museum audience in the context of restrictive measures.

News

'Culture as a Growing Point': HSE University–St Petersburg Hosts International Forum of Creative Industries in UNESCO Cities

The Fifth International Forum 'Creative Industries in UNESCO Cities' brought together hundreds of specialists from various countries and Russian regions. One of the event venues was HSE University–St Petersburg. Representatives of city government, filmmakers, artists, and international experts met with university professors to discuss the ways in which the creative economy has helped to develop tourism and what role young people have played in it.

September 25

At HSE University-St Petersburg, Experts Discuss How AI Changes Tourist Routes and Cultural Heritage

Neural networks are no longer simple travel assistants; now they decide what to include on the route and what to skip. Artificial intelligence changes how people perceive a place and shapes the image of tourist centres. At the II International Scientific and Practical Conference ’Information Technologies in the Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage’, researchers discussed who controls the algorithmic solutions and in what ways, and whether authentic traditions get lost in them.

Research & Expertise expertise research projects digital transformation international cooperation HSE Campus in St Petersburg

September 15

'Best Way to Get to Know Each Other Is to Travel': Professor from Renmin University of China on St Petersburg, Tourism Development and Project with HSE University

HSE University-St Petersburg and Renmin University of China applied to implement a joint project focused on the cultural gene of Russian and Chinese cities. At the II International Scientific and Practical Conference ’Information Technologies in the Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage’, Yangyang Song, Deputy Director of the Institute of Creative Industries Technology at Renmin University of China, told about cooperation prospects and how the heritage and digital communications shape a city image.

Priority 2030 professors expertise discussions international cooperation HSE Campus in St Petersburg

September 12

Idea to prototype in three hours: workshop participants mastered working with data without code.

Are you wary of coding but want to work with data professionally without waiting for analysts to deliver results every time? On April 4, in a three-hour workshop, participants went from the initial idea to creating an interactive prototype for presenting the results.On April 4, an online master class, "Digital researcher: no-code tools for working with data", was held as part of the project "Integrated platform solutions for preserving and promoting cultural heritage (using Samarkand and St. Petersburg as an example)" within the "International Academic Cooperation" program.

April 05

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