IGCAT was invited to visit Cava Codorniu’s as part of the Ambassadors Programme for Catalonia on Friday 19 February in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona. The Ambassadors programme was created by the Catalan Tourist Board in order to connect leading ambassadors to different attractive areas of the region. Cava Cordorniu is one
On Friday 12 February, Pelle Øby Andersen from The Food Organisation of Denmark will represent Aarhus/Central Denmark Region in Milan at the BIT Fair (The largest tourism fair in Italy). The region has been invited alongside Riga-Gauja Region and East Lombardy as regions for hosting the European Region of Gastronomy 2017Award.
Galway’s hunger to be designated an official European Region of Gastronomy 2018 will come to a head next month with the presentation of the Bid Book to an international jury of experts. The European Region of Gastronomy (ERG) is not just a culinary award; the programme is designed to link
25 and 26 February- 7th International Congress on Rural Tourism (Palacio de Congresos Baluarte, Pamplona, Navarra) In Pamplona, Spain, there will be the seventh International Congress on Rural Tourism, which focuses on the important issue of diversification in rural tourism: food&wine tourism, 0km tourism and active tourism. One of the
The International Travel Fair, known as Bit (Borsa Internazionale del Turismo) is an event that brings together trade operators from all over the world, a large audience of visitors, travel lovers, television reporters and press. This year, this important international meeting point will take place from 11 to 13 February 2016. Thanks to the
On 16 January 2016, Davinia Galea, Deputy Director of IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism) was invited to chair the plenary session at the General Convention of the Nationalist Party in Malta. This year’s theme was ‘idea ambjent’ (Idea Environment). Her topic was ‘Environment and Culture’ in view of
Xavier Espasa, General Director of the Catalan Tourist Board spoke about Catalonia’s participation in FITUR, the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, which took place between the 20-24 January 2016. “FITUR has been the kick-off event of Catalonia, European Region of Gastronomy 2016 and the Year of Gastronomy and Wine Tourism.
C’REG 2016 (Catalonia, European Region of Gastronomy 2016) under the slogan Som Gastronomia (We are gastronomy) took place in Barcelona on Friday 29 January at Esade Creapolis. The meeting that was opened by the Director, Department of Marketing, ESADE,Josep F. Valls presented many key figures from the Catalan gastronomy sector
Culture and Food Events Management is the subject of a new module on the international degree course at the University Hotel-School of Hospitality and Tourism Managemen EUHT StPOL in Sant Pol de Mar. IGCAT has designed the new course as an introduction to young students in the complexities of events
IGCAT experts visited Rhodes (Greece) to give their advise and expertise by leading intensive workshops in support of Rhodes’ bid for the ECOC title in 2021. The experts worked extensively with the Rhodes 2021 bid team and public authorities, NGO’s and the university. The workshops were led by Dr. Diane Dodd and accompanied by Mary
Experts working on the evaluation of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe have been invited to a joint-working-meeting at the European Institute of Cultural Routes in Luxembourg. It is an opportunity for the experts to meet Stefano Dominioni, the new Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes
IGCAT is back after the Christmas holidays and in full expectation that it will be an exciting new year for everyone! This year is an exciting one – it is the first year that regions host the title European Region of Gastronomy, with a whole range of events taking place
The intensive one-year Master´s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management at the International University of Catalonia (UIC) in Barcelona commenced in October 2015. Once again, the UIC invited Dr. Diane Dodd, Executive Director of IGCAT to design and lead a course for international students on the subject of Cultural Policies
IGCAT organised a European Capitals of Culture introductory seminar on 11 December 2015 for candidate cities or cities considering putting their names forward the coverted title. With increased competition and spiraling costs to bid, cities were guided through the pros and cons of bidding to be European Capital of Culture. Two leading experts, Robert
This was the title of the third international conference on Cultural Tourism that took place at the University of Bergamo the 11 December, under the patronage of the European Commission. The meeting was dedicated to investigate the themes related to food and wine tourism. A special section was devoted to
Michelin star chef Wassim Hallel, ambasador for European Region of Gastronomy Aarhus/Central Denmark Region 2017, was interviewed by the Telegraph newspaper on the rise of the culinary scene in Aarhus. In a review last week, food, drink and travel writer Andy Lynes writes about the city’s status as Denmark’s new
