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EXO Foundation’s first Sustainability Awards support transformative tourism projects in Asia

September 29, 2023

EXO Foundation Sustainability Awards 2923

The EXO Found­a­tion, a non-profit organ­isa­tion sup­port­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism ini­ti­at­ives, held its first Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards cere­mony yes­ter­day (Septem­ber 28) on Zoom.  Prizes totalling US$40,000 in value were awar­ded to win­ners and run­­n­ers-up. The goal of the awards was to identi­fy, sup­port and pro­mote exem­plary pro­jects that seek to innov­ate sus­tain­ab­il­ity in Asia.  Alex­an­dra Michat, Chief Pur­pose Officer […]

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SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

September 27, 2023

SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

Malta’s Min­is­ter for Tour­ism Hon. Clayton Bar­to­lo MP (pic­tured above), Malta Tour­ism Author­ity (MTA) CEO Carlo Mic­allef, and Malta Tour­ism Obser­vat­ory MD Leslie Vella have launched 50 SUNx Chapters in the world’s least developed coun­tries (LDCs). Today’s launch event at MTA, as well as Malta’s broad­er sup­port of SUNx, is a key com­pon­ent of the […]

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Emotions, storytelling, AI, & tech dominate culture & heritage tourism summit

September 27, 2023

Culture and heritage tourism discussed at WTACH Global Leaders Summit in Valencia, Spain

Emo­tion­al con­nec­tion, empathy, and nar­rat­ive storytelling in an AI age of declin­ing atten­tion spans dom­in­ated debate at the inaug­ur­al Glob­al Lead­ers Sum­mit of the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH). Her­it­age tour­ism experts grappled with com­plex issues of present­ing cul­ture and her­it­age to tour­ists at an inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ing of cul­ture tour­ism experts Septem­ber 24 – 25 […]

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Rwanda names baby mountain gorillas, celebrates conservation & ecotourism

September 2, 2023

19th Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda - Meet Mukundwa, Teta's son

The world has met in Kinigi, Musan­ze at the foot­hills of Rwanda’s Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park to name 23 baby moun­tain gor­il­las in a glob­al cel­eb­ra­tion of con­ser­va­tion and com­munity-led efforts to pro­tect their hab­it­at.  Graced by HE the First Lady of Rwanda, Jean­nette Kagame, the 19th Kwita Izina Gor­illa Nam­ing Cere­mony, Septem­ber 1, brought together […]

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50 full scholarships for Climate Friendly Travel Diploma

August 18, 2023

Climate Friendly Travel Diploma: 50 full scholarships for students in SIDS and other developing states

Are you a gradu­ate in travel & tour­ism who is flu­ent in Eng­lish? Are you from one of the 39 SIDS (Small Island Devel­op­ing States)? SUNx Malta is offer­ing 50 full schol­ar­ships for the 2023 intake of its two-year online Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) Diploma.

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Learn Rwandan cuisine at Red Rocks Cultural Campsite

August 16, 2023

Learn Rwandan cuisine at Red Rocks Cultural Campsite

If you’re a travel agent look­ing for a unique des­tin­a­tion to recom­mend to your cli­ents, or a tour oper­at­or search­ing for a new part­ner in Africa, con­sider Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Camp­site in Musan­ze, Rwanda.  This hid­den gem is about more than moun­tain gor­il­las. As its name sug­gests, it offers vis­it­ors an oppor­tun­ity to immerse themselves […]

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