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Westminster’s City Plan: City management policies revision
Posted on: 13 March 2014
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New planning policies on Housing need, delivery and quality; Food, drink, entertainment, tourism, arts and culture; Westminster’s economy; and Social and community uses are being developed as part of Westminster’s emerging Local Plan. The council previously consulted on draft policies on these topics as part of the City Management Plan published November 2011. The council has made a number of changes to the previous drafts and are now consulting on their draft proposed policies through topic-based booklets, exploring the issues and suggesting what the council considers to be the most appropriate policy response. These will then be merged with the strategic policies set out in Westminster’s City Plan to create a single local plan for Westminster. Comments are requested by 23 April 2014.
Working together in Europe: A shared leadership
Posted on: 13 March 2014
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This regional report, developed jointly by the UNWTO Regional Programme for Europe and the UNWTO Affiliate Members Programme, seeks to contrast the perspectives of UNWTO Member States and Affiliate Members from across Europe on issues affecting tourism in the region ranging from the economic recovery to emerging markets, competitiveness and how best to work to ensure the sector´s long-term growth in the region.
Events are Great Britain
Posted on: 13 March 2014
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The UK events industry has grown by £3bn to £39.1bn, according to a new report from the Business Visits & Events Partnership. It examines the size and value of Britain’s events industry, its characteristics, trends, opportunities and key issues.
Gender equality and youth employment: Travel and tourism as a key employer of women and young people
Posted on: 11 March 2014
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New research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) shows that travel and tourism employs a higher proportion of women and young people than is represented in the workforce as a whole. The research focused on five countries: Australia, France, Germany, South Africa, and Turkey. These countries cover a wide geographic range, represent both mature and emerging tourism markets and for each there is also sufficient data availability to allow accurate and comparable analysis.
15 Years of the UNWTO World Tourism Network on Child Protection
Posted on: 10 March 2014
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The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has been working towards preventing all forms of exploitation affecting children and youth in tourism through its Task Force for the Protection of Children in Tourism since 1997 (since 2001, the Network for the Protection of Children in Tourism). This open-ended platform held almost 30 international meetings, providing an indispensable forum for the exchange of research, experiences and awareness raising on the most significant projects on child protection in tourism. The UNWTO strongly encourages the collaboration with the private sector since the whole sector needs to work in synergy if we are to contribute to the elimination of all forms of child exploitation. This publication is a testimony of some of the successful projects and good practices shared within the Network during the past decade.
ITB World Travel Trends Report 2013/2014
Posted on: 7 March 2014
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The report covers the main trends in outbound travel demand for the first eight months of 2013 together with estimates for the full year and also contains initial forecasts for 2014. In addition, it focuses on various topics and market segments, including the role of technology and social media, the growing youth travel market, trends in the hospitality sector and the potential of Africa.2014. It predicts that travel from the advanced economies will grow somewhat more strongly than in the previous year while the travel boom from the developing countries could slacken to some degree.
IPK International
Posted on: 7 March 2014
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IPK International is a tourism consulting company highly qualified in travel research and tourism marketing and tourism master plans and counts among the leading tourism consulting groups worldwide. With its World Travel Monitor and European Travel Monitor, IPK International has the world’s most comprehensive tourism database on European, Arabian, Asian, North and South American outbound travel behaviour.
ITP Berlin Convention. Berlin, 5-9 March 2014
Posted on: 7 March 2014
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Many regard this as the world’s most successful travel and tourism trade event. Presentations and background reports are available online.
Tourism visa openness report for the Silk Road countries
Posted on: 5 March 2014
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This report presents a global vision of travel facilitation in the world, complemented with a specific analysis of this important issue along the Silk Road. Considering the size and complexity of this thematic route, comprising a wide diversity of partners in different continents, travel facilitation along the Silk Road through improved visa measures represents a significant challenge, yet also an immense opportunity to promote tourism development. It is hoped that the report will be an important step towards building a collaborative approach to travel facilitation along the Silk Road, contributing to the work initiated twenty year ago, when in 1994, 19 countries adopted the Samarkand Declaration on Silk Road Tourism, calling for ‘the adoption of facilitation measures that would reduce travel barriers and stimulate tourist flows along the Silk Road.
European tourism in 2013: Trends and prospects
Posted on: 4 March 2014
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The latest quarterly report from the European Travel Commission suggests confidence is growing in the sector, as some of the factors underlying growth will persist into the next year. The ETC expects international tourism to grow between 3% and 4% in 2014. Growth spread across virtually all European destinations and accelerated as the year progressed, mainly due to strong summer travel demand from large outbound markets, such as Spain and the UK.
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