VARANASI: The dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Kashi has started taking shape as the exercise for ‘mapping the intangible cultural heritage of Varanasi’ under the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojna (HRIDAY) and National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spatial Augmentation Drive (PRASAD) has begun. The Union cultural
Communities across Leeds are being urged to join the debate over whether the city should bid to become a European Capital of Culture. A detailed consultation is currently ongoing to see whether Leeds should present a bid for the right to host a year of cultural events. Council chiefs are
Valletta 2018 needs to set realistic targets to be successful, but being a European Capital of Culture may nevertheless transform not just the city, but its – and Malta’s – image abroad, according to cultural tourism expert Greg Richards. As Valletta prepares to showcase itself in little more than three
New York Times have scoured USA for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states (and D.C. and Puerto Rico) regarding thanksgiving …READ MORE
It’s all well and good to enjoy and appreciate a bottle of wine. It’s very well, indeed, to go to the winery and do some tastings at the cellar door. But it’s another thing entirely to taste a fine wine among the very vines that produced the fruit, or, better
When we think about borders, we tend to think of administrative boundaries. Those demarcating lines, often grown out of rivers and mountain ranges or diplomatic quirks, govern our daily lives, and that’s doubly so if we live near a neighboring country or state.While we as humans are incredibly complicated organisms,
You probably know that much of the world’s environment is under threat. But a new study says languages are disappearing alongside plants and animals. The study, from the World Wildlife Fund, measured the threat to languages using a scale that tracks how threatened species are. Not only are many languages
Starting next year, a Salem resident might start a new multicultural summer arts festival somewhere downtown. Or there might be a new family Lego festival in downtown alleyways. Or, come February 2016, there might be the city’s first public celebration of the Vietnamese New Year. Those were some of the
Bringing tourists to Latvia’s regions will be one of the priorities of the government’s Tourism Development Agency (TAVA) next year. Inese Sirava, TAVA’s senior specialist for product development, said at the annual Latvian Tourism Forum that the Latvian capital Riga was well-known in the foreign markets. Riga was in the
Despite the tremendous effort put into developing local sustainability policies and plans that include culture in cities and smaller communities internationally, there is frequently a gap between discursive elements of the planning process and their operationalization in practice. Further, one of the major gaps in the guides and integrated frameworks
The Art of Food meeting held on 17-19 November in Sant Pol de Mar (Catalunya) gathered experts from 11 different countries to discuss the growing convergence between food, art, culture and tourism. One of the key issues emerging from the discussion was the need to maintain the diversity of culture
Adventure Alternative, which is based inPortstewart won the gold award in the Best for Poverty Reduction category. Now in their 11th year, the World Responsible Tourism Awards are headline sponsored by the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Tourism, and were founded in 2004 to celebrate the most inspiring stories in
Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business. At a convention in San Francisco on Friday for its hosts — people who rent rooms or apartments to travelers — Airbnb will formally unveil its new quarterly magazine, Pineapple,
News that Limerick will bid for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2020 comes as little surprise, yet those assembling the bid will face a lengthy and arduous process. The city will face a tough challenge from Galway and a likely cluster of cities in the South East
The General Council of the Arterial Network is currently meeting in Rabat, Morocco (10-11 November), where Arterial Network is proud to launch its new website, actualizing its mission in becoming a leading source of information and exchange for the African creative sector and its diaspora. Arterial Networks’ web-platform will revolutionize
Renowned women rights activist Farida Shaheed has been awarded International Award UCLG – Mexico City – Culture 21 – that is given to personalities that have distinguished themselves through their contribution to culture as a dimension of sustainable development. Farida is the special rapporteur of the United Nations in the
