Why This Chair? »

This is a joint initiative by the "Tres de Febrero" National University and the Association of Friends of the National Museum of Fine Arts.

UNITWIN and UNESCO CHAIRS PROGRAM »

Promoting Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity in the world through Responsible Tourism.

Keynote speaker Noel B. Salazar

International Conference

UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, Development”

TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT WORLD HERITAGE SITES »

Forthcoming international conferences
Touristic Highways, Byways and Cultural Itineraries, From Memory to Development

June 13th to 15th, 2012, Québec, Canada

 Call for papers (pdf) »

The UNESCO-UNITWIN Meeting in Haifa and Akko Resulted Concrete Action Items on Community Involvemnet in WHPs »

Tourism, Culture and
Sustainable Development »
(pdf document)

This study has been carried out as a part of the programme “Culture, tourism and development” of the Division of cultural policies and intercultural dialogue, Section culture and development by Pr Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard.

World heritage and tourism: managing for the global and the local »

June 2-4, 2010, Quebec City, Canada.

The City of Buenos Aires was selected by UNESCO as The World Book Capital 2011 »

Buenos Aires' bookshops, publishing ventures, translators, literary magazines, the establishment of institutions defending authors' rights, public libraries wich, since 1810 are scattered all over the city, reveal that book and reading have always been one of the milestones of Buenos Aires identity.

9th. International Summer University, Rancagua UNIR 2010
Tourism and Heritage Routes »

The University was held January 4-9, at the House of Culture of the historical Chilean city, and was organized by the Municipality of Rancagua, the Extremadura University and the Extremadura Center for Studies and Cooperation with Ibero-America (CEXECI), with the participation of the Buenos Aires UNESCO Chair of Cultural Tourism.

The UNESCO Chair of  Cultural Tourism in Buenos Aires will coordinate the Project:
“Sites of Memory in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay”

The program will be executed as part of a new strategy of the International Project “The Slave Route”.

Cultural heritage, tourism and cooperation with Ibero - America
With the presentation of the study on "Contribution to development through sustainable tourism”, the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Tourism Untref/Aamnba participated in the International Ibero-American Courses organized by the Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica (Cexeci), held in Cáceres, Spain.

Members of UNESCO/ UNITWIN Network - Meet at the Citée Universitaire in Paris
The Meeting’s goal was to discuss guidelines for a common Training Program on Tourism and the Management of World Heritage sites. The Program will be certified by UNESCO’s Center for World Heritage and advisory bodies such as ICOMOS, ICCROM and UICN. It will be targeted to managers and professionals who work in situ and will include contents tailored to the specific regional contexts.

Seminar - Workshop
Media coverage on heritage
The Seminar was organized by UNESCO’s Office in Montevideo, in cooperation with UNESCO’s Offices in Havana and Port au Prince, through their respective programs of Culture and Communication and Information. It was attended by around twenty journalists from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Haiti, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.

Workshop to enhance the skills of experts on prevention of hazards and tourism management at Heritage Sites in countries of the Mercosur
It was organized by UNESCO’s bureau in Montevideo and was held at Villa Ocampo, with the participation of representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. The workshop’s aim was to meet basic training needs for a suitable implementation of the World Heritage Convention.