TY - SER KW - Confraternities KW - Confraternity KW - Creative tourism KW - Creatives KW - Cultural heritages KW - cultural identity KW - Culture KW - Douro regions KW - Essential support KW - European council KW - Exploratory studies KW - Future generations KW - heritage KW - Historic preservation KW - Historical heritages KW - Intangible cultural heritage KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Local development KW - Portugal KW - Public campaign KW - Public campaigns KW - Public communications KW - Qualitative methodologies KW - Socio-cultural KW - sociodemographics KW - Sustainable development KW - sustainable tourism KW - Terras de Trás-os-Montes KW - Terras de tra-os-mons KW - Tourism KW - Tradition of the mask KW - Tradition of the masks KW - UNESCO KW - UNESCO world heritages KW - Web-page KW - Websites KW - World heritage AU - C. Rodrigues AU - D. Liberato AU - E. Esteves AB - The cultural heritage is a crucial asset to understand the historical heritage of humanity and is an essential support to legitimize the path toward the future, since, as in the past, future generations will judge our actions, whether or not we have been able to preserve the path we have trodden to our present. It even serves to protect another good, also invaluable, the intangible heritage, nowadays very in vogue, and that begins to take the first steps in its safeguard: it is the gastronomy, songbooks written and sung, legends, the typical and ancestral clothing, among others, who write in the “skin” the history that is urgently needed to be preserved. This paper is the result of antecedent research, emanated from the doctoral thesis in Communication and Heritage, presented in 2012 at the University of Vigo, which aimed to study the importance of Communication in the award of the title of “World Heritage”, under the aegis of the UNESCO World Heritage Center (United Educational Nations, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to the urban historic oldtowns, and its contribution to the promotion of protected heritage, with a view to preserve and exploit the economic potential. This article aims to build a reflection on the public communication campaigns carried out by both the UNESCO World Heritage Center along with national and local authorities, aiming to build an image of defense of the cultural heritage, as well as the promotion of a more sustainable tourism, fundamental for the preservation of heritage and its relationship with future generations. C1 - International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems, ICOTTS 2021 DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-1040-1_50 N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Smart Innov. Syst. Technol. Pages: 609 Publication Title: Smart Innov. Syst. Technol. N2 - The cultural heritage is a crucial asset to understand the historical heritage of humanity and is an essential support to legitimize the path toward the future, since, as in the past, future generations will judge our actions, whether or not we have been able to preserve the path we have trodden to our present. It even serves to protect another good, also invaluable, the intangible heritage, nowadays very in vogue, and that begins to take the first steps in its safeguard: it is the gastronomy, songbooks written and sung, legends, the typical and ancestral clothing, among others, who write in the “skin” the history that is urgently needed to be preserved. This paper is the result of antecedent research, emanated from the doctoral thesis in Communication and Heritage, presented in 2012 at the University of Vigo, which aimed to study the importance of Communication in the award of the title of “World Heritage”, under the aegis of the UNESCO World Heritage Center (United Educational Nations, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to the urban historic oldtowns, and its contribution to the promotion of protected heritage, with a view to preserve and exploit the economic potential. This article aims to build a reflection on the public communication campaigns carried out by both the UNESCO World Heritage Center along with national and local authorities, aiming to build an image of defense of the cultural heritage, as well as the promotion of a more sustainable tourism, fundamental for the preservation of heritage and its relationship with future generations. PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH SN - 21903018 (ISSN); 9789811910395 (ISBN) TI - The Intangible Cultural Heritage as a Creative Tourism Product. The Masks of Trás-os-Montes UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134355663&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-19-1040-1_50&partnerID=40&md5=24cf2f7da1513d83704d8252e86d6f98 VL - 293 ER -