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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Costa Rica expands sustainability certification programme

Costa Rica continues to lead the way in sustainable tourism with the addition of two new areas to the country’s well established Certification of Sustainable Tourism (CST) programme, which will now also regulate food establishments and coastal/marine tour operators. This addition will help promote the country’s traditional gastronomy and protect

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

ExpAliments 2014

ExpAliments is the main Campus de l’Alimentació of Torribera Fair (Barcelona). It is organized in collaboration with the Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and sponsored by Gallina Blanca – Star. This year it coincides with the celebration of the World Food Day so, it has been considered appropriate to

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

The French Gastronomy Festival

French gastronomy is famous for its excellence all around the world. So much so that UNESCO recognizes it as an intangible heritage of humanity. On September 26th, 2014, the French Minister of Agriculture Stephane Le Foll teamed up with fellow ministers to show their support for the fourth annual “Fête

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

UNWTO Executive Council discusses the links between tourism and culture

The UNWTO Executive Council stressed the need to promote new governance models to foster closer cooperation between tourism and culture in order to advance the sustainable development of cultural tourism. The importance of building new partnership models for the sustainable development of cultural tourism gained particular relevance at the 99th

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

NGO says that Valletta will benefit from becoming intercultural

Valletta can benefit from becoming more intercultural, SOS Malta, a human-rights NGO, said during a meeting with Council of Europe experts for their ‘Valletta Living Together’ project. This 16-month project is co-financed by the EU Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals and aims to improve integration and intercultural

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