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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Penang set for role in MyFest 2015

Malaysia Year of Festivals 2015 (MyFest) organisers recently made a pit stop in Penang with talks for stakeholders and industry players on how to make the campaign a success. Tourism Malaysia deputy director-general Datuk Azizan Noordin and general manager of Visit Malaysia Year 2014 Secretariat general manager Nor Yahati Awang presented

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Cluj- Napoca is becoming the European Youth Capital for 2015

Thessaloniki in Greece is handing over  Cluj-Napoca in Romania the title for the European Youth Capital, a title won during a competition that had 49 European countries as participants. The program’s mission is to support youngsters and youth organizations in their active participation in changing the society through a sustainable, responsible

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

"The Common Language of the Kitchen, The Youth Experiencing the Diversity of Europe" | Lubieo, Poland | 20-28.01.2015

The project aims to explore and try to build a common identity of young Europeans in relation to the culinary habits and terminology through workshops, national gastronomy nights and other activities.Through the exchange of new attempts to highlight the creativity and entrepreneurship and growth as a result of common interests

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Diplomats mobilise to save France’s culinary pride

The French have a worldwide reputation for gastronomic excellence. But while the country still boasts some of the globe’s finest restaurants, chinks have begun to appear in its culinary armour with ever-increasing competition from other countries, from Japan to Brazil via Spain, Denmark and Britain. With so much riding on France’s

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Pilsen 2015 celebration less than a month away

The West Bohemian city will be a European Capital of Culture next year. You can look forward to more than six hundred unique events starting Jan. 17 when the West Bohemian city of Pilsen takes up the banner as European Capital of Culture for 2015. ‘Pilsen 2015 is the biggest

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

‘Sustainable’ Cities – not Just for Yuppies

The ‘sustainable city’ is only salvageable if we recognise the sociological and political problems that exist within it.  Giving people a stake in the urban sustainability debate regardless of their background entails uniting around principles of diversity, recognition and participation. Currently, divisions are being created between those with the aptitude,

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Blog
Diane Dodd

European Capitals of Culture Seminar for candidate cities

Candidate cities in various stages of bidding for the coveted European Capital of Culture title, took part in a meeting with the authors of the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) reports in Barcelona on Friday 12 December 2014. The meeting featured the participation of several bidding ECOC cities in order to

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