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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
