Sergiu Musteata, Introduction

In the current issue, we are publishing another 11 papers divided into two chapters too. The third chapter, “World Heritage and Local Communities – Consulting, Involving, Participation”, includes six papers focused on various experiences of the community participation in preservation, revitalization and promotion of the World Heritage Sites, like Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Old Havana (Cuba), and the role of the new World Heritage Watch movement (Germany). The chapter concludes with a paper on the relations between Heritage and Mass Media (Romania). The fourth chapter, “Cultural Tourism, Digital Technology and Heritage – Promotion, Valorisation, Use/Reuse of the World Heritage Sites”, includes the other five papers which debate, in particular, the relation between heritage and tourism (Romania), the role of local communities in the projects concerning sustainable development (the UK, India), heritage and multimedia technologies (Romania) and socialist modernist heritage (Romania/Moldova).