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Diane Dodd

Street food festivals gaining in popularity

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

EUNIC network awarded EU funding from Creative Europe Programme Crossroads for Culture – Enhancing EU member states transnational and international cooperation

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

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World News
Diane Dodd

Tourism goes local in the Mother City

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Joburg Tourism presents Top 10 at Soweto Wine & Lifestyle Festival

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Soul music and tourism combine to boost visitor numbers

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

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Blog
Diane Dodd

IGCAT contributes to the VACuM training project organized by Visegrad Summer School Academy in Krakow (Poland)

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Series of conferences to explore cultural networks across the Med

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Yokohama hosting events as "Culture City of E. Asia"

This year makes the first year of the “Culture City of East Asia” project, which was agreed on by cultural affairs ministers from Japan, China and South Korea last year. The aim of the project is to promote understanding and a sense of unity among the three nations, said Kimiyoshi

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Plan of Action: Where to meet Athens' new creatives

Crisis… what crisis? It seems that the economic downturn in Greece has brought a new outlook and fresh creative life to the city. ‘Greeks are being forced to be creative, to work together for the first time’, says Tina Kyriakis (Alternative Athens). She provides a few examples of creative innovations…READ

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Introducing The Conversation: The City Talking X Leeds 2023

Cities should always be thinking about their future, but this year Leeds is thinking about a very specific point in its future: the year 2023. 2023 is the next year that a city from the UK can be declared European Capital of Culture, following Glasgow’s turn in 1990 and Liverpool’s

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Blog
Diane Dodd

The president of IGCAT, Greg Richards will participate at the “Tourism Research and Management in a Rapidly Changing World” international conference in Belgium this September

Greg Richards will be making a keynote presentation on “Trends in Creative Tourism” at the “Tourism Research and Management in a Rapidly Changing world” conference to be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on September 15th and 16th. Creative tourism is gradually emerging as a key area for innovation

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

The 2014 Traveler 50: World's Smartest Cities

We all know our world is increasingly urbanized, but what makes a city smart? A sense of place, for starters, says Ian MacFarlane, consultant for National Geographic Channel’s Smart Cities program. “A city needs a heart and soul—typically the center, where people congregate for work and leisure. Smart cities are well-connected

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Tourism Research and Management in a Rapidly Changing World

The Tourism Section of the Division of Geography of the KU Leuven is organizing an international conference with the title “Tourism Research and Management in a Rapidly Changing World”. The conference will be held in Leuven on the 15th and the 16th of September 2014.Leuven is very proud of both its past and its

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World News
Diane Dodd

Garden grows interest in medieval Limerick

The Limerick Cultural Garden was a silver medal winner at this year’s Bloom Festival in Dublin, where it was viewed by 100,000 people. Inspired by Limerick’s built and cultural heritage, the show garden has been relocated to the grounds of City Hall, where it can be enjoyed en route to

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