As the global economy rebounds and tourism reaches record heights, hotels are boasting more occupied rooms and higher rates. This is giving the industry an opportunity to consider a looming concern: Sustainability, upon which the future of their business rests. A recent campaign initiated by Nordic Comfort Hotel and Rainforest Foundation
Artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, nutrigenetics, aeroponics and drones are just some of the emerging technology that will become commonplace and start to be linked to food over the coming years. We currently host 10 start-ups from 7 different countries, selected from among 220 candidates of 18 nationalities, for the
As the peer-to-peer sector of the travel industry continues to grow, the tours and activities arm has struggled to take off in same manner as lodging and ground transportation. What is thriving is a smaller set of entrepreneurs who are building unique and creative tour businesses aimed at travelers and locals
As the African Creative Economy Conference wrapped up on Saturday November 15th, the overall outcome celebrated Artistic Rights and Freedom of expression and reasserted Arterial Network’s fundamental adages: there will be no culture without freedom, and no development without culture! Overall, the ACEC saw delegates from over 40 countries taking part
Eteries are constantly popping up in the most unlikely of places, the latest of which calls a car wash its home. Parked inside Westside Highway Car Wash, you will find Underwest Donut where Scott Levine, cake enthusiast, created a mini, pastry paradise after ditching his job as a sous chef …READ
A new report published by the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS) analyses the two ECOC held in 2012 in Guimarães (Portugal) and Maribor (Slovenia). The report, edited by Greg Richards (IGCAT’s president), reveals the impact of the two events on the image of the two cities,
A new prize-winning app provides an opportunity to explore three of the Danish UNESCO World Heritage sites. The app will now be honored with the 2014 World Summit Award mobile. The prize-winning app World Heritage Denmark is developed by the Danish Agency for Culture in order to make the World Heritage
Developed by graduate students in Montreal and Antwerp, an ICC-inspired museum tool to support intercultural research, planning, and evaluation is made available to all museum professionals, researchers, and heritage sector stakeholders. In the context of a collaboration between UQÀM | Université du Québec à Montréal (department of Museum Studies) and
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
