Published on : Monday, July 26, 2021
Andhra Pradesh Tourism and Culture Minister V Srinivas Goud said that the day Ramappa Temple earned the World Heritage tag will forever be engraved in history. The minister said that this was possible due to the persistent efforts of the …
Published on : Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Till a decade ago, a visit to Chennai meant a one-day tour package through the temple town of Kancheepuram and stopover at Mamallapuram to enjoy the architecture and culture of the region. However, over the years, the lack of promotion …
Published on : Monday, March 8, 2021
The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) presented the Sustainable Cultural Tourism Strategy for Southern Africa to stakeholders during a webinar slated for 8 March 2021. The Strategy is designed to guide UNESCO ROSA’s technical support, assistance and advice …
Published on : Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C announced the opening of the latest hotel to join its luxury Asia Pacific portfolio, The Ritz-Carlton, Nikko. The property – set amidst a UNESCO World Heritage Site – introduces a new level of luxury to …
Published on : Wednesday, January 8, 2020
In a world full of extraordinary natural and man-made wonders, there are just over 1,100 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, voted by a prestigious United Nations cultural body which deemed them to possess “outstanding universal value.” To launch 2020 and the …
Published on : Thursday, November 7, 2019
Seaside Hotels has successfully acquired Finolhu, a luxury island resort in the Baa Atoll of the Maldives. Modern and fun, Finolhu is the hotel chain’s eleventh boutique property and it’s first in the Maldives. Gregor Gerlach, CEO and Managing …
Published on : Friday, September 6, 2019
On Thursday, UNESCO and the Rajasthan government joined hands for promoting music, art and craft forms, and other intangible cultural heritage of the state to prompt socio-economic growth of several artist communities. The project to run for approximately three-and-a-half …
Published on : Friday, July 19, 2019
Laboratory of innovative ideas and practices for sustainable development is the goal of the UNESCO Network of Creative Cities, which has four Brazilian cities for this year’s titles. Belo Horizonte (MG) competes in the category Gastronomy, Cataguases (MG) in …
Published on : Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The Kingdom of Eswatini is celebrating its first entry in UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme have just added 18 new sites in 12 countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, and …
Published on : Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Last week, the city of Bruges, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, became the latest stop on the global tourist trail to question the philosophy that ‘more is better’ when it comes to visitors. The city Mayor, Dirk …
Published on : Monday, June 10, 2019
The tourism in Nova Scotia is gearing up to entice the UK market with its new branding campaign. Tourism Nova Scotia has launched a new unique London taxi campaign in partnership with Canadian airline WestJet. With a fleet of 14 …
Published on : Saturday, June 1, 2019
In the first five months of 2019, a state-run Angkor Enterprise stated that the number of foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park dropped by 7.3 percent. During the period between January- May this year …
Published on : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
From January 1 onwards the popular UNESCO World Heritage site Machu Picchu in Peru has introduced strict time slots. Visitors need to select specific time slots and should arrive within one hour or else they might be turned away. …
Published on : Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Bath, the city of Spas could benefit from a rare double-listing as a World Heritage site as part of an international Great Spas of Europe project– boosting tourism and global awareness of the city. It has been identified …
Published on : Friday, September 21, 2018
The EU-China Year of Tourism is coming to close. However, that does not mean that the European Union is done with high-profile promotional initiations. The latest campaign associated with the EU-China Year of Tourism is the World Heritage Journeys. The …
Published on : Tuesday, August 7, 2018
UNESCO has designated a series of sites associated with the checkered history of Christians in 16th- to 19th-century Japan as the country’s 18th World Cultural Heritage Site. The “site” is comprised of 10 villages in northwest Kyushu, as well as …
Published on : Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Brighton and Lewes Downs area, which the council has branded ‘The Living Coast’, is one of four UNESCO listed biospheres’ in the U.K. and France to get E.U. financial boost to develop an environmentally-friendly way of managing tourism. …
Published on : Thursday, August 2, 2018
The walled city of Jaipur in Rajasthan is the next in the list of proposed site for UNESCO World Heritage recognition, said the Minister of State for Culture Mahesh Sharma in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. As per the …
Published on : Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Macao is participating at the 12th UNESCO Creative Cities Network Annual Meeting that opened today (June 12) in Poland. This year co-hosted by Krakow and Katowice, Creative Cities of Literature and Music respectively, the major annual gathering of the network …
Published on : Monday, May 7, 2018
Recently, UNESCO has informed the cruise lines to initiate more into protecting cities witnessing heavy tourism like Venice and Dubrovnik and to develop cleaner ships. As we all know that Dubrovnik has been struggling to adjust with the influx in …
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