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Global Rescue joins African Tourism Board with a simple mission

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 31, 2019

Global Rescue joined the African Tourism Board showing emphasis on their medical, security, evacuation, travel risk and crisis management services to the African continent. Global Rescue is the world’s leader for such services since its founding in 2004. Their services are delivered anywhere by their teams of critical care paramedics, physicians, nurses, and military special operations veterans. “Global Rescue…

Guatemala partners with UNWTO to launch Sustainable Tourism Observatory

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 20, 2019

The new Observatory is located in the city of La Antigua Guatemala, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a leading tourism destination. Led by the Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo (INGUAT) and supported by the Guatemalan government, the Observatory will periodically collect data and scientific evidence as it monitors the effect tourism has on the historic…

Tourism Ethiopia joins African Tourism Board

Written by Erik Grimaldi,

Today Tourism Ethiopia joined the African Tourism Board as an observer. Tourism Ethiopia (TE) is a national organization under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; The mission Tourism Ethiopia has is to transform tourism of the country in general by developing tourism products to world standards and marketing them to the global market. In charge of the…

Anita Mendiratta Recognised By IIPT on United Nations International Day Of Living Together In Peace

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 17, 2019

Today, the 16th of May, is recognised globally as United Nations’ International Day of Living Together in Peace. It’s a day for “mobilising those in the international community to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity”. It’s a day for all of us to unite, sharing in our differences and diversity, to encourage reconciliation and…

Safer Tourism in St.Lucia: Dr. Peter Tarlow feels a sense of sophistication

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 13, 2019

Safety in tourism is key to a successful destination. Destinations like Saint Lucia in the Caribbean know this and stakeholders reached out eTN affiliate safertourism.com to conduct an initial audit on the safety and security situation of the countries travel and tourism industry. Safertourism.com is a joint partnership between the eTN Corporation and Tourism and More under the leadership…

Investing in Tourism Sustainability Conference: Dr. Taleb Rifai Chair

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 6, 2019

The inaugural Investing in Tourism Sustainability Conference will open in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria Ma 30-31. It will focus on investment in tourism in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe. The Tourism Sustainability Conference will serve as a Tourism Investment platform bringing together Policy Makers, Tourism Ministers, Project Owners, Investors, and the tourism and hospitality business sectors from Bulgaria, Southeast…

Safertourism.com: Tourism Security will be an issue in 2020

Written by Erik Grimaldi,

The 26th Las Vegas International Tourism Safety and Security Conference in 27 years was concluded last week. Next year a whole new concept of tourism security conferences is in the making. The new face in 2020 will reflect the changing times as tourism security continues to be an issue around the world. The weekly riots in…

Zimbabwe Tourism invites African Tourism Board leaders to a fact-finding mission

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 3, 2019

African Tourism Board leaders were invited to Zimbabwe for a fact-finding mission and were afforded the opportunity to participate in a discussion with the Zimbabwe Minister of Tourism, Priscah Mupfumira. This was discussed yesterday with Ms. Likukuma Rita, acting Chief Executive of Zimbabwe Tourism Authority; African Tourism Board VP Cuthbert Ncube; and ATB CEO Doris Woerfel…

WISeKey, WISeCoin AG and SUNx – Strong Universal Network – sign partnership

Written by Erik Grimaldi,

WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey “) (SIX: WIHN), a leading global cybersecurity, Blockchain and IoT company, WISeCoin AG and the SUNx – Strong Universal Network,announced today a partnership to jointly develop a special purpose Blockchain Center of Excellence in Brussels focusing on the development of standards and technologies to accelerate Climate Friendly Travel. WISeKey Blockchain technology developed by WISeCoin creates a…

UNWTO partnership to develop digital tourism agenda

Written by Erik Grimaldi, May 1, 2019

The application of new technologies such as Big Data and the Internet of Things are already leading to new uses and applications that will revolutionize services in the tourism sector and responses to new customer demands. For this reason, a new alliance places special emphasis on jointly addressing the challenges and opportunities that this technological…