IGCAT congratulates Plovdiv after the independent selection panel responsible for assessing the Bulgarian cities competing to be European Capital of Culture in 2019 has recommended that Plovdiv should be awarded the title. IGCAT experts Greg Richards, Diane Dodd, Mary Millor, Robert Palmer, Ernst Houdkamp and Danuta Glondys provided Plovdiv with training
Cyprus’ cultural development ranks highly among the government’s priorities, President Nicos Anastasiades assured,addressing on Friday evening the opening of the ‘Pafos Aphrodite Festival’, organized for the 16th consecutive year. ‘For this purpose we are promoting a series of further measures, with the first one being the restructuring of the management
What does responsible tourism look like in 2014? What are the experiences and destinations at the top of our travellers’ minds? The 200+ Longlist of the World Responsible Tourism Awards 2014, sponsored by the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Tourism, reveals those organisations in the running to win the prestigious
The European Commission will have a significant presence at this year’s edition of the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre event to be held in Turin, October 23-27. All speakers highlighted at the press conference that this remarkable participation of four Directorates-General at an international event held beyond the borders of
Latin America’s biggest food festival opened its doors to the public on Friday, bringing together chefs, restaurant owners, farmers and everyone else in the food business from across Peru and other parts of the world. The 10-day annual event, known as Mistura, is being held along the Costa Verde beach in
Millions of people will enjoy free access to thousands of historic and cultural sites, many of which are normally closed to the public, in 50 countries throughout September as part of the annual European Heritage Days. The European Heritage Days is a joint initiative of the European Commission and Council
The independent selection panel responsible for assessing the Bulgarian cities competing to be European Capital of Culture in 2019 has recommended that Plovdiv should be awarded the title. The other three cities short-listed after the initial selection round in December 2013 were Sofia, Varna and Veliko Turnovo. The formal nomination
Submissions are invited for a forthcoming book to be published in 2015, entitled: ‘Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship: A global comparative analysis of course and program content in university – and community-based education for the cultural and creative industries’. Contributions to the book will be presented as part of the
Restaurants on the streets – also known as outdoor food festivals – are finally catching on in Kyiv, long after they started flourishing in many capitals of the world. While Kyiv has had street food vendors for a long time, restaurateur Roman Tugashev organized the first Street Food Festival in August
The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC Global) was awarded EU funding from the European Commission Creative Europe Support to Networks Programme for the project EUNIC – Crossroads for Culture – Enhancing EU member states transnational and international cooperation. The project, which is expected to last 3 years, will
From the 8th till the 12th of September, the UNWTO.Themis Foundation designed and offered the Council of Europe Cultural Routes’ (CoE CR) partners an executive training course on Cultural Routes Tourism Development Strategy. The course was carried out in co-operation with the Iter Vitis Route France in the Region Midi Pyrénées,
Cape Town – Tourism is what makes the Mother City go around, and locals are being encouraged to join in and explore what it is that keeps international visitors coming back time and again. September sees the focus shift not only to heritage, but also domestic tourism. “Tourism is viewed as someone
Joburg Tourism will be utilizing the Soweto Wine Festival, taking place at the UJ campus from September 4-6 as a promotional platform to celebrate spring, Tourism and Heritage Month, as well as launch its latest campaign – Love Joburg – Explore, Experience & Enjoy! The “Love Joburg” tagline is being introduced
The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) will receive $20,000 in funding from Tourism Victoria’s Events Program to help boost interstate and international marketing for this year’s November program. AWME has come to be known as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier roots music event attracting artists, industry professionals and music lovers from across
The Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) is a new international educational initiative based on cooperation of Villa Decius Association with Marcel Hicter Association for Cultural Democracy from Brussels and supporting partners from Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. The project is addressed to young culture managers working
The Valletta 2018 Foundation will host the first in a series of annual conferences titled ‘Dialogue in the Med: exploring identity through networks’ on Thursday and Friday at the University’s Valletta campus. It will encourage debates on the common histories and geo-political realities of Europe and the Mediterranean within the
