Great Excursions Home Aug 21, 2008
Placemaking has been described as the art of building your community. In essence it implies creating places that are more conducive to human activities: public squares, parks and markets where people can congregate, interact and engage in social activities. Placemaking also happens to be a crucial element to developing successful tourism destinations.

 

Placemaking and Placemakers

Placemaking is the art of building your community. As an applied anthropologist actively involved in community tourism development projects in Canada and the United States, Great Excursions CEO Claude-Jean Harel provides first hand experience of the conditions required for effective placemaking and of the ways to create the right community environment for it to occur.