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 …

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 …

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.     …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Wikipedia is the most common and possibly most trusted search option for people when looking up to something online. The same applies for the tourists as well.     In a recent analysis of Wikipedia page views found that “Paris …

Strengthening cooperation between the tourism and culture sectors to boost prosperity and enhance heritage protection is the topic of the 2nd Global Conference on Tourism and Culture, which will be held in Muscat, Oman 11-12 December.     Jointly organized …

Due to the conflicts around 17 of the 82 World Heritage sites in the Arab region were on danger said the new head of the U.N cultural agency. Audrey Azoulay said that over 100 sites across have been damaged. She …

The Conference will explore ways to build and strengthen the partnerships between the Tourism and Culture sectors in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs).   “Cultural tourism is growing, in …