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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Mobile Radio Station Gathers Stories Of Canada’s Main Streets

A project by Fixt Point, a Toronto based arts and media company, A Tale of a Town is a roving radio station that operates out of the “Storymobile”, a travel trailer-turned-recording studio making its way across Canada, collecting memories of the country’s main streets …READ MORE

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World News
Diane Dodd

‘Township tourism’ is often best attraction

In many ways, tourism has socially and economically shaped Cape Town over the past two decades. Cape Town is now so much more than a sea, sand and surf destination. Visitors come here for our food and wine, our adventure offering, our design and lifestyle, they also come here to

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

International Istanbul Gastronomy Festival

25 countries, thousands of domestic and foreign chefs and famous judges in the world… Culinary Professionals will come together in 29-31 January 2015 for the 13rd time at Tuyap Beylikdüzü, Istanbul, Turkey. The objective of the competition in International Istanbul Gastronomy Festival is to provide channels between Turkish Culinary Cultures and

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

An Argument for Adding Sustainability to TripAdvisor Ratings

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Can 10 startups change the way we eat?

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

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

New York Becomes Fertile Hub for Tours Entrepreneurship

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Arterial Network | Launches Resource for African Arts Practitioners

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

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Food Trends: Donuts In A Car Wash

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

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Blog
Diane Dodd

New report on the European Capital of Culture

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,

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

An Intercultural Tool for Museums

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Cultural Mapping Begins

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Leeds culture title gets city talking in consultation

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Beyond the cellar door to the Ultimate Wine Experience

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

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