The Kashmir's GI Playbook: Heritage & Livelihoods with Possible Education

A practical, case-based course on how Geographical Indications, heritage and tourism can work together to build place identity and community livelihoods, using Kashmir's GI-tagged crafts and produce as the living case.

Kashmir's saffron, Pashmina, Kani shawls, Sozni embroidery, walnut wood carving and papier-mâché carry centuries of place-based knowledge. This course shows how to understand these products legally, position them within a destination's identity, involve the communities behind them, and communicate their value credibly. It combines GI and IP fundamentals with tourism, branding and community-participation thinking, and ends with a capstone you can use in research, a proposal or a project.

Modules:

1. From Heritage to Hospitality: Kashmir GI Conference
2. GI Foundations
3. Kashmir's GI Landscape
4. Heritage and Destination Identity
5. Craft Trails and Experiential Tourism
6. Community Participation and Sustainable Tourism
7. From Tradition to Market
8. Protecting and Communicating Value
9. Policy and Comparative Perspectives
10. Capstone Project

Format: self-paced video lessons, a downloadable toolkit, one practical task per module, a short quiz, a capstone, and an optional live Q&A.

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