This paper examines conventional forms of tourism-CT and discusses how it can be converted into more diversified forms of tourism-DT by using sustainable rural tourism. Cyprus is used as a case study to show the move away from conventional tourism to a more diversified tourism within a global tourism trends. In order to achieve the utilisation of existing and emerging tourism capacities, a categorisation of tourism approaches is evaluated to assess the extent of sustaining tourism diversification. The paper identifies and discusses the formation and deformation processes of tourism by contextualising and clarifying tourism policies and planning processes at macro-and micro-levels, based on literature analysis and national surveys, including statistics, questionnaires and workshops. This research provides an overall framework in asserting values of different tourism forms to enable capacity utilisation, which refers to the collaborative existence of different forms of tourism and their interaction between each other, in order to balance the impact in achieving a context-based sustainable tourism development. The findings of the research provide groundwork for long-term tourism management on developing strategies, policies on future sustainable development forecasting.

The rapid growth of the cities with transformation of traditional urban spaces has caused a gap between cultural characteristics of urban identities. The identity of a specific place emerges from a series of cultural and social features of the relevant society embodied in the physical forms and shapes of the urban area. The paper aims to attain an overall understanding of keeping urban identity alive throughout the time, by analyzing the cultural characteristics of urban space. The study tries to develop a conceptual model focusing on the tangible relationship between the place identity and the cultural manifestations of the city of Erbil. The study adopted the quantitative way to test whether tangible elements affect place identity. The results indicate that a combination between place identity and cultural places can fortify our experience of place, and understanding of the influence of identity on urban development.

In the last decades, the Mediterranean region is experiencing economic, social, and spatial changes in its structures. Today, cities are experiencing an increasing number of complex problems regarding internal and external connections, reflecting on the city structural realm. The physical transformation of territories in general and cities in particular are associated with external trends, such as migration, post-colonization affects, social changes, economic, and political activities. The paper concludes how coastlines act as an interface between internal and external transitions of the Mediterranean region, and highlights those territories as important defensive lines which could embrace the Mediterranean challenges. The attitude of coastlines as a system basis of cities can find a compelling rationale as well as a cohesive meaning of recovering its major role in embracing complex external and internal relations, which result in the formation of a strong and coherent urban system to cope with constant transitions of the region.

Cities have distinctive identities that vary physically according to their geographical location, demographics, culture, environment, and economic factors. Altogether, they are targeted at a better quality of life by promoting their identity through revitalization efforts. This paper puts forwards an urban modelling application of location intelligence tool (Carto DB), and how nowadays tools could provide planners with both analytical databases and practical platforms to implement future strategies, which allow appraisal of cities' current situation, along with specific strategies, methods, and approaches for mapping and highlighting the different aspects of life to develop exercises in macro planning issues which are capable of responding to the needs of today's phenomena. This application applied diverse case studies selected from students' hometowns with different complexity, history, within recent developments. The results show that the synchronicity and growth between software and urban planning provided and tested new analytical tool, which allows spatial applications of various strategical analyses on different scales.